[Official] City end interest in Eto'o

• limpper

  11 Jul 09, 13:13

  

  NO DEAL ... Samuel Eto'o will not be joining Manchester City

   

  MANCHESTER CITY have abandoned their bid for Samuel Eto'o.

  City are fed up waiting for Barcelona's £25million striker to decide whether or not to accept their offer of £200,000 a week.

  And with a pre-season tour of South Africa next week, chief executive Garry Cook decided to pull the plug.

  He said: "Samuel Eto'o is undoubtedly a fine footballer but the circumstances surrounding him were such that the deal could not be completed.

  "We now feel the time is right to pursue other avenues. We have a clear and strategic transfer plan, which we continue to follow."