Tiote to Citeh?

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/tra...Newcastle-star-Cheick-Tiote-article850250.htm

They probably just want to buy anyone Manure/Spurs/Chelski/Liverpool/Arsenal want to buy

 

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Citeh to **** off.

 

The words "totally" "not" and "happening" spring to mind.

 

City have 5 midfielders able to play in that position (Yaya, Barry, De Jong, Milner, Hargreaves... any more?) so why would they spend a massive amount on another?

Just (hoping) don't think it's feasible.

 

Because Tiote is better then all but Yaya?

 

City have a stupid amount of midfielders. This is either lazy journalism to sell papers or City just want to buy players so no one else can have them.

 

I'm sorry but there seems to be a lot of unwarranted optimistic as far as outgoings are concerned.

Tiote/Ba are the hottest prospects around and you can bet your bottom dollar that the top 6 all think they have the divine rate to take any thing that they want.
When these kind of names are being banded about there can only really be one outcome. I expect us to lose one big player in January. Whether its Tiote or Ba or even Colo...

 

But surely they have more important players to buy? A CB or striker, for example.

I mean, if Tevez goes they only have 3 strikers.

 

Mancini said to spend they need to sell. With the wages they pay players, this leaves the outgoing players very few options due to wage restrictions by clubs. So, why would they buy a player that we would only sell for a minimum of 25 mil without the contract buyout, which in itself would be a lot with over 5 years left on it?

 

Sunday's papers in a transfer window. Don't really need to say much more than that.

 

Man City ready to outbid United and Chelsea for Toon star

Published 22:57 07/01/12 By Oliver Pickup

Manchester City are weighing up a decisive move to recruit Cheick Tiote from Newcastle.

In the last month the Toon midfielder has been linked to City’s neighbours Manchester United and Chelsea, who are understood to be willing to lodge a bid in excess of £25million.

But City boss Roberto Mancini would love to outmanoeuvre them, and is close to making a shock bid for the 25-year-old Ivory Coast star who is off to the African Cup of Nations.

Mancini is sending scouts out to the tournament in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea to watch how Tiote plays alongside countryman Yaya Toure, midfield kingpin of table-topping City.

The former Barcelona midfielder, used by Mancini in a more attacking role than he played during three seasons at the Nou Camp, was one of the reasons that Tiote moved to the Premier League in August 2010.

Yaya and elder brother Kolo, along with Chelsea striker Didier Drogba – another Ivorian – convinced the combative Tiote to leave Dutch club

FC Twente believing that his raw physicality and ball-winning skills would be a hit in England.

The £3.5m Newcastle paid for Tiote now seems a bargain – he has become a fans’ favourite in the North East, and is one of the reasons Alan Pardew’s team have been riding high in the Premier League this season.

Mancini must now decide whether to outbid Chelsea. The City manager has been reviewing his squad and one concern may be that City need more guile than drive from their midfield as opponents sit deep against them.

That’s why Nigel de Jong has made so few appearances this season.

If the Ivory Coast, whose solitary success in the competition was in 2006, do well in this campaign there is a high likelihood that City’s oil-rich owner Sheikh Mansour will sanction a bid for Tiote.

If he were to sign for City, another familiar face would be centre-back and skipper Vincent Kompany, who was a rising star at Anderlecht when Tiote joined the Belgian club in 2006.

The Ivory Coast squad met in Paris yesterday before flying out to Africa, and the Toure brothers – as well as Tiote and their national team-mates – were not allowed special dispensation to remain in England for longer.

Mancini had hoped that he would be able to select the brothers for today’s FA Cup third round clash with bitter foes United at the Etihad Stadium.

 

If he plays well alongside Yaya, who is in fairness the central hub of City, then it really would not suprise me if they bid.

 

Mancini was complaining that there wasnt funds available to replace the players going to the ACON

 

Tiote won't leave a club where he's first team to be a bench warmer elsewhere. He isn't a money grabber like Carroll

 

Another defensive midfielder?

I don't think so. Barry, Yaya Toure, De Jong and Hargreaves hasn't had a sniff...

Funky cold medina.

 

30m and Johnson and were talking.....

 

I'm sick of these top 6 clubs thinking they can click their fingers and players will come running. We are trying to
build a side which can break into the top 6 in 3-4 years, If Ashley sells then what's the point of trying.

 

hopefully ashley will keep who we want ,smith is more than welcome to go any offers ???

 

Just depends if Ashley can resist the temptation to line his pockets again or whether he really does want the club to progress on the field.