"Manchester City face the prospect of a £30million wage bill next season for players that manager Roberto Mancini no longer wants.
Mancini is desperate to ditch Emmanuel Adebayor, Craig Bellamy, Roque Santa Cruz, Wayne Bridge, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jo and Nedum Onuoha from his first-team squad, but has found his plans hamstrung by the astronomical salaries that players are banking at Eastlands. City are ready to take huge losses on a group of players recruited by former boss Mark Hughes who cost the club a staggering £85m in transfer fees alone.
But so far there have been no takers, with clubs unwilling to meet either Cityâs cut-price valuations or the big-money deals currently being paid at Eastlands.
Adebayor, who cost £25m when he arrived from Arsenal two seasons ago on a deal worth £130,000-a-week, is being touted around Europe for £14m."
I know Bridge has had a bad spell at West Ham (amazing debut HA!), but I still think he's an improvement on what we have already. SWP would be a great signing as would Bellamy and Onuoha, but I don't know if Coates will ever want to (we all know he can) pay the ridiculous wages these guys are on.
Thoughts?
Mancini is desperate to ditch Emmanuel Adebayor, Craig Bellamy, Roque Santa Cruz, Wayne Bridge, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jo and Nedum Onuoha from his first-team squad, but has found his plans hamstrung by the astronomical salaries that players are banking at Eastlands. City are ready to take huge losses on a group of players recruited by former boss Mark Hughes who cost the club a staggering £85m in transfer fees alone.
But so far there have been no takers, with clubs unwilling to meet either Cityâs cut-price valuations or the big-money deals currently being paid at Eastlands.
Adebayor, who cost £25m when he arrived from Arsenal two seasons ago on a deal worth £130,000-a-week, is being touted around Europe for £14m."
I know Bridge has had a bad spell at West Ham (amazing debut HA!), but I still think he's an improvement on what we have already. SWP would be a great signing as would Bellamy and Onuoha, but I don't know if Coates will ever want to (we all know he can) pay the ridiculous wages these guys are on.
Thoughts?
