Man City to Make World Record £150m Bid for Messi: More Money Than Sense!
by Christian Bailey on August 11th, 2009 8 commentsIs it possible to have TOO much money?
Manchester City are ready to pay £150m for Lionel Messi, according to Spanish newspaper Marca. The world record bid would eclipse efforts to sign Kaka and Samuel Eto’o earlier this year and follows reports at the weekend that City were trying to guarantee a first refusal should the Catalans ever decide to sell the Argentina superstar. (Daily Mail)
The idea that a club could/would/should be able to make such an obscene bid is quite frightening but what should be even more terrifying to those in the Eastlands boardroom is the fact that Leo Messi still wouldn’t make such a move, no matter how much they paid him!
You see the billionaires at the club’s top table need to be made to realise that right now they simply can not hope to snap up the likes of Messi, Ronaldo, Terry or Torres, these players are out of the club’s reach. Simply because the club is currently not in the same league as the clubs those players ply their trade for.
Sure, in a few years time, maybe when the club has cracked the top four monopoly and is even playing Champions League football, then perhaps they will have the stature on the field that matches the money off it. Things do look good for the long suffering Blues fans but they currently need to make intelligent signings that can lead them towards the summit of the Premier League. Captures like Kolo Toure are those that will stand the club in good stead, whereas paying over the odds for the likes of Carlos Tevez and Emmanuel Adebayor is a sure fire way to fail.
Mark Hughes faces immense pressure to bring quick success and if given a chance to run the show as he wants to and given time to build things up in a relatively organic manner he could well be the right man for the job, but if he is sacked the moment the club do not meet unlikely goals then the club could lurch from one expensive mistake to the next. One thing is for sure, it’s going to be one hell of a rollercoaster ride for the club!
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chop, chop, he wants you to call him LOL
Donna Hue - August 11th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
first 1st yay ya
Tom Starkay-Starkey-Night - August 11th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
1st – uno
Marc - August 11th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Never gunna happen keep dreaming city fans, Messi is THE BEST player in the world and there is no way he would come to your team of misfits good luck next season,your pre-season has gone really well
Cav - August 11th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Literally lol’d at this. Messi will probably retire at Barca; anyone who thinks it’s worth the time and energy to try and bring him to their club, especially one like man shitty, must be high as a kite.
john - August 12th, 2009 at 2:28 am
tbh the players man city should be signing are the likes of lavezzi, negredo and hangeland because while they are not superstars they are still very good for a team not even in the europa league. havin more stars than non stars will cause more problems than it solves. especially with weak managers like hughes
chris - August 12th, 2009 at 5:58 am
these articles just make money for the journo’s who make them up… i’ve just recently been employed by the times…. man city target frank lampard…. $70 million transfer fee suggested, $350k p/w salary.
bam, there u go… that has about as much knowledge behind it as 99% of the crap being bantied about over the last few months
pete - August 13th, 2009 at 7:11 am
no hope gettin messi
city have good players just need a couple more to find
the right balance
anonymous - February 10th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
they might have good players but they need some more good players like messi and torres but untill then they will have to sike with the players what they have got man city have got superstars like tevez adaboyor and given wright phillips but they need some oother good player to balance the team out and if they get messi that will be god because then we wont have to reliy on tevez doing all the work