Roman block Wayne Bridge's move to Man City over Robinho
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PHIL SCOLARI insists Robinho could still join Chelsea.
The Blues were stunned on transfer deadline day when the Brazilian moved to Manchester City instead of Stamford Bridge.
But Scolari admits the Premier League leaders have not given up on the player City signed for £32.5million.
According to reports in Brazil, Big Phil said: "I am sure that Robinho would be the best player in the world if he came to play at Chelsea.
"The Chelsea doors are always open to him."
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Plz unless Man City agree to release or else u cant do nth!!!
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oh....?
i think robinho is fine there....
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talk cock.
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i don't think he'll move
with the money he's paid
and the super super super star status he has there now.
nothing beats feeling wanted at a club. now he's a king there, leading the team.
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lol. i thought Abramovich bo lui liao.
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wa lua sign fat ronaldo la..=.=
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Originally posted by omgukilledkenny:
lol. i thought Abramovich bo lui liao.
bo lui??? you gotta be kidding even if he is to lost 90% of his paper assets he is still worth billions.. BTW last reported he is worth ard 23 billions on Forbes.. -
Originally posted by Saltiga:
bo lui??? you gotta be kidding even if he is to lost 90% of his paper assets he is still worth billions.. BTW last reported he is worth ard 23 billions on Forbes..nope not kidding. i was just deriving from the fact that he sacked 15 of his scouts.
maybe i should rephrase. not bo lui. is that he seems less willing to splurge his money on Chelsea nowadays.
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Originally posted by Saltiga:
bo lui??? you gotta be kidding even if he is to lost 90% of his paper assets he is still worth billions.. BTW last reported he is worth ard 23 billions on Forbes..Err... That was before all the credit crisis started... But over the last 2 months... It was reported Roman lost $12b pounds in the stock exchange... and since then, there could be further losses as it has gotten worse since early last month...
The $23b that Forbes reported was well before all this and it was reported at the beginning of the year. They are also in US$... Convert to Sterling Pound then and probably it would have been about $13.5b pounds at that time...
The currency depreciation since could also cause further problems to him...
I think we can see the big difference between the time he first came in and now...
Roman Abramovich is clearly feeling the pinch of the global credit crisis and it has become so bad that they are cutting costs across the board... Sacking scouts operations and even to the extend of starting to charge Chelsea players to eat at their Cobham training ground canteen can't be good publicity and are signs of it.
Chasing Lyn Oslo for £16 million in the High Court over the transfer of John-Obi Mikel and trying hard to get whatever they can on Mutu seems like they are trying to get as much as they can from anywhere possible right now... These are not their style in the past... And Kenyon telling Scolari he must raise cash for new players if he wants to bring in some more in Jan is another...
I think Frank Arnesen has become the first to give us an inside into Roman's problems... In an interview with the Danish newspaper Weekend Avisen, Arnesen explained the dismissal of 15 scouts from his network. He said: 'The credit crisis has meant that Roman has hit the financial brakes, and asked us to cut deep. We have cut down significantly on scouts and other activities.'
Roman naturally won't be too pleased by Arnesen's decision to discuss their private conversation of his straitened finances in public...
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i dont htink robinho will wanna leave man city. he seems happy there with all of hi country man..
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Roman Abramovich blocks Wayne Bridge's move to Man City over Robinho
Roman Abramovich has personally blocked Wayne Bridge's projected move to Manchester City.
Chelsea's billionaire owner remains incensed that his club lost Brazilian superstar Robinho to City in the wake of their takeover by the Abu Dhabi United group.
Chelsea had worked tirelessly for months to prise the British record £32million signing out of Real Madrid. In the final hours of the August transfer window City pulled off their coup and Abramovich missed out on the player he coveted most and the feud with City began.
Now City want Chelsea left-back Bridge. Manager Mark Hughes was confident he could prise the England international away from Stamford Bridge with the promise of regular first team football and a healthy pay rise.
But Abramovich has made it clear to club officials he will not do business with City - at any price. Bridge only signed a new four-year contract in the summer worth around £85,000 a-week. It's claimed City would offer a staggering £120,000 a-week to get their man when the January window opens.
Seeing their efforts to sign Bridge blocked are not the only transfer frustrations facing City's Arab owners. Two other key targets, Portsmouth midfielder Lassana Diarra and Blackburn striker Roque Santa Cruz, are unlikely to be allowed to move by their current clubs.
Pompey have already snubbed two bids in excess of £15 million for Diarra while Paul Ince has been given firm assurances that Santa Cruz will not be allowed to leave Ewood Park until next summer at the earliest.
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120K FOR A WAYNE BRIDGE???
THATS IS FREAKING CRAZY -
Bridge isn't that good actually lol
How much are they willing to pay anyway?
Ifi ts acceptable bids like 20 million I will sell. or an exchange isn't bad,.
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it wont even be higher than 15m -.-
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at the rate they are paying soon we will have to pay more,
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City will try to disrupt Chelsea further with a bid for Bridge or Cole.
WANTED ... Chelsea ace Ashley Cole
MANCHESTER CITY will make an amazing £20million bid for Ashley Cole in January.
The club’s billionaire Arab owners are trying to exploit Cole’s contract situation at Chelsea — and also sign Portsmouth midfield star Lassana Diarra.
An £18m deal for Diarra is almost complete but Cole will be much harder to sign.
City are willing to pay Chelsea £20m and will offer him a £130,000-a-week deal to move to Eastlands.
Cole, 27, has 2½ years of his current deal left which pays £82k a week — much less than Frank Lampard and John Terry.
Chelsea are aware of City’s intentions and also of the fact Cole could ‘buy out’ his contract next summer and move for nothing.
FIFA rules state the contract of any player over 27 is out of the ‘protected period’ when there are less than two years left.
A senior City source said: “The owners agreed to strengthen the team in January. The Diarra deal is almost done and Cole is very interesting.”
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20million for wayne bridge i sell
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if he go... all chelsea/arsenal fans will chant "CASHLY COLE"
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LOL ownage sia.. big money ppl fighting with each other.. this is getting really interesting lols.. modern soccer has changed.. LOLs.. machiam play FM sia.
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i think they should put something like italy.. restrict the amount of FT coming into england..
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a taste of own medicine
now a bigger fish has arrived to gobble up the smaller ones
haha