The City Jan Sale! Red tape rule out Adebayor's Juve deal

• zocoss

  19 Nov 10, 10:02

  The Great Manchester City January Sale ! 

   

  

  COSTLY FLOP ... City striker Adebayor

   

   

  OUT

  Adebayor    (£25m)   available for £12m

  Wayne Bridge    (£12m)   available for £5m

  Shaun Wright-Phillips    (£8.5m)   available for £5m

  Roque Santa Cruz   (£18m)   available for £4m

  Jo   (£17m)   available for £4m

  Shay Given   (£7m)   available for £7m

   

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  Wolfsburg's Bosnian frontman Edin Dzeko as a £35m target.

   

   

   

   

  MANCHESTER CITY chiefs have decided to take a £50million hit on five players.

  The world's richest club will listen to offers in the January transfer window for Emmanuel Adebayor, Wayne Bridge, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Roque Santa Cruz and Jo.

  Keeper Shay Given will also be made available — but for the £7m he was originally bought for.

  All six stars were signed by Mark Hughes, City boss Roberto Mancini's predecessor, at a total cost of £87.5million.

  But few have figured regularly this season and Mancini fears the presence of some of them is having a negative influence at the club.

  City chief executive Garry Cook and chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak discussed the transfer window with Mancini before flying to Abu Dhabi to meet owner Sheikh Mansour for a board meeting.

  There, they delivered Mancini's plans for the restructuring of the squad for a second-half title push.

  They include landing two new strikers, with Wolfsburg's Bosnian frontman Edin Dzeko topping the list as a £35m target.

  City will take the biggest hits on strikers Adebayor, 26, and Santa Cruz, 29.

  Adebayor cost £25m from Arsenal but is available for £12m after failing to set the world alight following his move in July 2009.

  Paraguayan Santa Cruz, meanwhile, was an £18m buy from Hughes' former club Blackburn but will be up for grabs at a mere £4m.

  City, though, seem prepared to make losses in all areas of the pitch.

  Left-back Bridge, 30, cost £12m from Chelsea in January 2009 but City will now accept £5m.

  And then there is winger Wright-Phillips, 28, who returned for a second spell at City following an £8.5m move to Stamford Bridge in August 2008.

  He spoke about his desire to see it out at City this season but talks on a new deal have stalled and the club will take £5m for him.

  The £17m deal for Brazilian flop Jo, 23, was agreed by former boss Sven Goran Eriksson but completed under Hughes and City know they will now be lucky to get £4m.

  In fact, the only player City bosses want their full money back on is Given, 34, who they bought from Newcastle in January 2009.

  The Republic of Ireland stopper lost his place to Joe Hart at the start of the season and said this week he had to get a move in the New Year.

  Ironically, Given will play his first Premier League game of the season away to Fulham on Sunday when he replaces Hart, who is out for a week with a back injury picked up on England duty.

  What City will not do is compensate the highly-paid players if they move. The six stars in question earn between £60,000 and £130,000 a week and will struggle to get the same wages elsewhere.

  But City will tell them and their agents they are knocking down asking prices, so the players can get the moves they want - and return to action again.

  In short, any make-up in wages will have to be organised with the buying club.

  City have already lost just over £10m this year on British record signing Robinho, who was bought for £32.5m and sold to AC Milan for £22m in August.

  And striker Craig Bellamy, 31, a £14m buy from West Ham, is currently on loan at Cardiff.

  But the City hierarchy are determined to back Mancini in his plans despite outside pressures.

  Mancini told the club's board in the summer it was his way or no way if he was going to continue as manager.

  City lie fourth in the table after an incredible £320m investment in the squad in just over two years.

  
  
• Asromanista2001

  19 Nov 10, 16:39

  get rid of Mancini far cheaper lah.........

  anyway i hope those Arab ragheads will continue to throw more money into the sea...............

• Poignant

  19 Nov 10, 22:04

  exactly, mancini leave should be enough.

  liverpool should sell away those fringe players then buy all this from city. they will come good

• zocoss

  23 Nov 10, 23:55

  Adebayor claims Juve deal - but red tape rules it out

   

  

  
  
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  Emmanuel Adebayor claims he will quit Manchester City for Juventus in January - but the move is under threat beacuse the Italian giants already have their full quota of non-EU players for this season.

  The Togolese striker launched a stinging attack on boss Roberto Mancini as he prepared to leave the Blues.

  He said: "I don't know what I have done to Mancini but he never lets me play. I know I cannot stay here, and I expect to leave in December. I can tell you that the club already has a loan agreement with Juventus."

  But for Adebayor to make his dream move, the Old Lady would have to first get rid of Serbian Milos Krasic as Serie A rules prevent them from bringing in more than one player from outside the EU per season.

  And that seems highly unlikely, as the winger has been Juve's outstanding performer this season and returned from injury and suspension to be the key factor in their 2-0 win over Genoa at the weekend.

  
  
• mrwonderful

  24 Nov 10, 00:35

  arabs better not play stock market. zero investment sense. sure will lose all their money.

  when their oil runs out they will become destitute like n korea

• iceFatboy

  24 Nov 10, 10:24

  one qn, Mcity how many pts from the leader??

• CKeer

  24 Nov 10, 11:31

  Adebayor    (£25m)   available for £12m

  I doubt anyone would shell out that much for Adebayor. Maybe somewhere in the region of 8-10m. He seems to be more interested to count cash than to perform on the pitch.

  Wayne Bridge    (£12m)   available for £5m

  5m?! How old is he again? 30 right? Just because he is an English doesn't mean he warrant that price tag. 2m the most.

  Shaun Wright-Phillips    (£8.5m)   available for £5m

  I think City should pay others to get rid of SWP.

  Roque Santa Cruz   (£18m)   available for £4m

  Could be the steal of the season for any mid table clubs. Maybe Blackburn could consider getting him back since they have lack of attacking options up front.

  Jo   (£17m)   available for £4m

  Again, I think City should pay others to get rid of Jo. A troublemaker who cant score

  Shay Given   (£7m)   available for £7m

  Possibly one of the most wasteful talents dropped because he is not an Englishman. Arsenal, Manchester United and even Newcastle could fight for him.

• Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1)

  24 Nov 10, 18:41

  Bridge - should join other EPL Clubs that can give him 1st team.. hmm Fulham?
  
  Jo - sell him to get $$

  SWP - last time still wan higher wages? Sell him lar
  
  Santa Cruz - Any clubs will do
  
  Adebayor - nth to say