Crazy Money for Average Defender Part 2: Manchester City to Bid £14m for Kaboul!
by Mr Poking the Bear with a stick on January 11th, 2010 18 commentsWhy are the Eastlands outfit trying to improve defence by spending large sums of money on dross?
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Portsmouth are demanding a huge fee for centre-back Younes Kaboul in a bid to avoid selling their star players at bargain basement prices.
Financially troubled Portsmouth are attempting to avoid a rock bottom fire sale at Fratton Park and Frenchman Kaboul is one of their prized assets. It was reported yesterday in the News of the World that Manchester City are closing in on a £7m deal for Kaboul.
This morning however, The Sun reports the £14M price tag that Manchester City will be asked to meet if they want to sign the 24 year-old. Kaboul would provide competition for the likes of Kolo Toure and Joleon Lescott at the heart of Manchester City ’s defence.
Younes Kaboul has played 18 matches for Portsmouth in the Premier League this season, scored three goals, picked up two yellow cards and he has also been sent off once. (IMscouting)
Is there such a thing as more money than sense in football? If so Manchester City are the prime example of this very problem. Many were stunned by the large sum paid by Mark Hughes to bring in Joleon Lescott and it hasn’t exactly proven to be a great signing but that particular capture will seem like a masterstroke if Roberto Mancini decides to put in a £14m bid for Tottenham flop Younes Kaboul.
The Pompey centre back is average at best and a naive and error prone defender at worst. I know that Portsmouth are strapped for cash but a valuation of this sort is mindless in the extreme and if the Eastlands side pays up they are simply throwing yet more misguided money in an effort to tighten a leaky defence.
No one can deny the ability and talent that Kolo Toure and that is one signing made in the last year that I think was truly a great bit of business but if Mancini was ever to partner the Ivorian with Kaboul it would be the footballing equivalent of putting a skoda alongside a Ferrari in a car dealership, loosely translated the Frenchman would look even more pedestrian and poor when contrasted with the former Arsenal man.
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anonymous - January 11th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Agreed. Even if 4m would be too much for Kaboul, please don’t do it Roberto
anonymous - January 11th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Lescott is better than Toure… City aren’t after Kaboul. End transmission.
anonymous - January 11th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
JESUS CHRIST!! How on earth do you or anyone know for a FACT that City have bid ANYTHING, much less £14m for Kabul? Because some paper wrote that?! Mancini has to this day even mention Kabul’s name in any interview he’s had.
Where is the journalistic integrity? Have we now come to a point where in order to get readership, we must “create” a headline for gullible fools to follow? This article doesn’t just come up with a “£14m” figure, no that wouldn’t be enough. The article goes even further to say that “City BID” that sum for Kabul.
Based on no fact at all. But the masses just swallow it up like sheep.
anonymous - January 11th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
This story is being cirulated by portsmouth because there skint. This won’t happen, we need a left back not a overpriced centre half with no talent! I wouldn’t give you 50p for this joker.
anonymous - January 11th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Who wrote this drivel???
anonymous - January 11th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Apart from all the other things that are wrong with this article, City’s “Leaky defence” hasn’t conceded a goal in all 3 games under Mancini since he came in and got the team organised properly.
anonymous - January 11th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
What a load of crap this article is – the best Pompey can hope for is a straight swap for BENJANI.
anonymous - January 11th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
I agree, It’s very strange how anyone can comment on a spurious report simply as an excuse to criticise a club. In common with most City fans I am getting sick of the media using any excuse to portray our great club in a bad light . If you have nothing better than this to say then do us all a favour and shut it
anonymous - January 11th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Can’t see this one coming off, £14M for Kabul is far to over priced, Mancini is not as stupid as Hughes, he knows what value for money is and won’t fork out silly money for average players unlike sparky. Part of the reason Hughes was sacked is because the sheikh didn’t want to see him waste anymore of his dough on crap players.
anonymous - January 11th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Non starter end of,just the press trying to fill the pages again.
anonymous - January 11th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
LOL! I think caught offside is just trying to stir crap up.
Newest story just put up attacks Liverpool’s “supposed” signings:
“Liverpool to Make Shock £6m Centre Back Move and Stupid £9m Swap Deal!”
I guess Caught Offside is taking the “Talk Sport” method of winding the fans up to get a response and page visits.
anonymous - January 11th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
You know it’s a quiet start to the transfer window when ‘journalists’ start making up shite like this.
anonymous - January 11th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
“No one can deny the ability and talent that Kolo Toure and that is one signing made in the last year that I think was truly a great bit of business”
Err… aint watched much of city this season have u and just jumped on the Lescott is sh1t, he is dragging toure down bandwagon. when truth is before his injury Lescott was finding form and Toure has been anything but the leader we bought him as
as far as City “Bid” 14 million ? WTF ? u even made the schoolboy error of printing the text associated with the “story” which states that is Pompeys valuation
idiot
anonymous - January 12th, 2010 at 2:08 am
jerk article written by a clueless punk
anonymous - January 12th, 2010 at 11:36 am
Of course, we will be reading articles titled ‘KABOUL REJECTS CITEH’ in a couple of weeks time.
Obviously we wouldn’t touch kaboul with a barge pole, yet when this rumour doesn’t materialise in to reality, it will be twisted into the above article title.
anonymous - January 12th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Jason Manford, is going to sign for them. He will get 500billion trillion squillion per nanosecond on a billion year deal, with an option to extend it after 500 million years and a 25 percent increase after 200 thousand years, plus a win bonus of 400billion
anonymous - January 12th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
City’s “leaky defence” is no more. Hughes instantly destroyed Richards and Dunne on his arrival then systematically ruined Toure, Lescott and Bridge having spent tons of cash on them. Now we have a manager who knows how to organise a defence, Richards is looking good again and we look reasonable at the back even with two thirds of the defence out injured. I think Toure, Lescott and Bridge will all look good again before the end of the season. Pity Hughes sold Dunne as then we would have plenty of depth at the back and wouldn’t need to sign a defender at all.
anonymous - January 13th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Even sign Cordoba with this price is too much. NO KABOUL. YES CORDOBA and CHIELLINI.