Garry Cook, City's executive chairman, and football administrator Brian Marwood held talks with their Barcelona counterparts earlier this week, but despite making progress towards an agreement, Barcelona have yet to accept City's offer, leaving the English club unable to talk terms directly with Eto'o.
Although reports of wage demands by Eto'o of close to £200,000-a-week after tax have been dismissed as "wildly exaggerated" by City sources, the club accept they are likely to have to make Eto'o the Premier League's top earner in order to persuade him to turn his back on Champions League football.
Could we actually get all three? It would give us the best choice of forwards for years - presuming Craig Bellamy is here as well - even better than in 1994/95 when we had Niall Quinn, Paul Walsh and Uwe Rösler to choose from. Seriously, this would be incredible.
4 comments:
Jack what in God`s name is that advert smearing your site for????
Just who do you expect to click on it ? or is it a cunning plan to make the advertiser as skint as yooonited by asking all your fellow blues to click it for fun
A strike force of front line of Eto'o, Tevez, RSC, Robinho, Boj and Bellamy - somebody pinch me.
I think that we would regularly have to play with a 4-4-2 formation to keep these strikers happy. If this is the case we would need a more defensive minded left winger. A cheeky £8m bid for Downing anyone?
I agree with jfell, if only for options, but I think a lot would be helped with a pitbull at leftback. Wayne Bridge is fine going forward, however, going the other way he does little to instill confidence.
I thought you might be interested in this post I made to 'Vital football' earlier :-
"As an aside if you read the Manchester United Evening News then I have news of my own. The City reporter Chris Bailey has left for a job as press officer with MCFC. And guess who has replaced him? The biggest rag on the planet none other than Stuart Brennan yes my friends a red, from a family of died in the wool rags. Only the MUEN could make it up. Guess whose reports I will not be reading. jackblue".
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