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rafathegaffa83 · « **on:** July 12, 2011, 02:04:51 AM »

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Adebayor 'on strike' as City relationship turns ugly

Club in no rush to sell forward on the cheap as wages fall outside financial fair play rules / Corinthians make £35m bid for Tevez

By Ian Herbert, Northern Football Correspondent

Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Manchester City's struggle with disenchanted strikers deepened last night with Emmanuel Adebayor effectively on strike and Corinthians tabling a baffling €40m (£35.3m) bid for Carlos Tevez.

Adebayor is likely to be fined at least two weeks wages – £330,000 in total – and may be in breach of contract, after failing to show at Carrington both yesterday and for a scheduled training session on Saturday. The player claims he is considering bringing a constructive dismissal claim, having heard of his omission from the United States tour from a secretary, but City will not release him on the cheap because they know that a Uefa exemption prevents his wages being counted when Financial Fair Play calculations are made.

While the club grappled with the Adebayor problem, the prospect of a deepening struggle with Tevez loomed after the improbable Corinthians bid – faxed last night – which even the club's director of football, Duilio Monteiro Alves, suggested should not raise the hopes of the Brazilian club's fans. "I don't want to get our fans' hopes up. We'll try... that's all I can say," he said. "[Signing Tevez] isn't impossible. It's a dream we're trying to realise."

As The Independent went to press, there had been no City response to the bid, which was not known to all senior executives. The asking price falls short of City's £40-50m demands for the player – and if a deal cannot be secured, it only gives the player more grounds for enmity towards the City chief executive Garry Cook. The Tevez camp insist that Corinthians can afford the player, as they have the fourth most lucrative shirt deal in world football – a £23m deal with Neo Quimica – and secure £50m every year from their TV rights. They spent a Brazilian-record £13.7m bringing the player to Corinthians in 2005, but like every club that Tevez has played for, that ended in rancour. "It's like they don't want an Argentine to succeed in Brazilian soccer. If nothing changes, I think it will be difficult for me to stay," Tevez said of Corinthians in 2006, before leaving for West Ham.

It is also unclear whether Tevez's wages – £250,000 a week – will prove an impediment, when it comes to discussing personal terms or whether City will be tempted to drop their asking price, to remove a crippling wage burden from their balance sheet.

The club are refusing to be held to ransom by any players bought in on expensive salaries by the former manager Mark Hughes two years ago. Though Craig Bellamy, Wayne Bridge and Jo have all resumed training, along with goalkeeper Shay Given, whose move to Aston Villa is progressing, City will not take a hit on their balance sheet by letting them go cheaply – and because of a critical exemption put in place by Uefa's Financial Fair Play (FFP) system, they will not jeopardise their chances of complying with the break-even rules by sitting any them in the stands next season.

Under Annex XI of FFP rules, the wages of any player whose contract was signed before June 2010 does not count towards the profit or loss figure which Uefa will take into account when considering if a club is eligible to play in Europe. Adebayor, Bellamy, Bridge and Given all fall within that category. The FFP rules stipulate that in the first three-year period, clubs will be allowed to lose up to €45m (£41m), reducing to nothing by the 2018-19 season. Uefa's head of club licensing, Andrea Traverso, wants to begin shadowing the club under a "soft implentation" system from this autumn. This £41m figure is gauged by weighing revenue against expenditure on wages and any loss on transfers. Money spent on youth development, stadium improvements or community work does not count.

City's awareness of the new financial regime's exemptions was made clear last Friday by the announcement of a potential £400m sponsorship deal with Etihad Airways, structured around a vast investment in property and infrastructure around the club's stadium, the capital costs of which will not count as "relevant expenses" when Uefa's nine-man Club Financial Control Panel comes to tot up losses.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/adebayor-on-strike-as-city-relationship-turns-ugly-2312160.html

Anywhichwayucan · « **Reply #1 on:** July 12, 2011, 02:06:38 AM »

Hardly shockhorror moment of the year.

Wish Matrix · « **Reply #2 on:** July 12, 2011, 02:15:58 AM »

165k a week. My word. I would set for life if I get those for just 2 months.

Jamie LFC · « **Reply #3 on:** July 12, 2011, 02:17:19 AM »

£330,000 for two weeks wages

Achmat · « **Reply #4 on:** July 12, 2011, 02:26:31 AM »

what a fucking cry baby

Johnny C · « **Reply #5 on:** July 12, 2011, 02:40:51 AM »

No different than Mascherano. I seriously don't know why players and teams even bother signing contracts anymore.... (headshake)

MagicB8all · « **Reply #6 on:** July 12, 2011, 04:36:33 AM »

Dummy out of the pram as, no doubt, he wanted to stay at Real Madrid

Y2J · « **Reply #7 on:** July 12, 2011, 04:43:56 AM »

Adebayor after knowing he isn't going to the US tour

Jokerman · « **Reply #8 on:** July 12, 2011, 04:48:25 AM »

"Adebayor is likely to be fined at least two weeks wages – £330,000 in total ... "

Sometimes sentences speak for themselves.

crasher1in · « **Reply #9 on:** July 12, 2011, 05:29:17 AM »

I'm not sure if this is right ,but i remember reading somewhere that a week of Adebayor's wages are enough to feed his entire village for a year?

Laughter is the best medicine... · « **Reply #10 on:** July 12, 2011, 05:50:09 AM »

Quote from: Johnny C on July 12, 2011, 02:40:51 AM

No different than Mascherano. I seriously don't know why players and teams even bother signing contracts anymore.... (headshake)

would say tevez is a better comparision than masch to be fair - cant imagine why anyone would sign this tit anyway, despite him being very very talented

Alan_X · « **Reply #11 on:** July 12, 2011, 06:20:44 AM »

Quote from: crasher1in on July 12, 2011, 05:29:17 AM

I'm not sure if this is right ,but i remember reading somewhere that a week of Adebayor's wages are enough to feed his entire village for a year?

Wow - you could feed the whole of Manchester for £165,000 a year!

kirkyg · « **Reply #12 on:** July 12, 2011, 06:40:29 AM »

to be fair, he doesn't want to sit on the bench again and they didn't even take him on tour. ok doing what he's doing isn't the right thing but i can see his frustrations on the football side of things

TheDpoLenz without the please like · « **Reply #13 on:** July 12, 2011, 06:58:37 AM »

City is a mess.Guarenteed it will be ballotelli next season wanting to leave.Milner is getting ahead of himself to a bit.Thinks he is allot better then what he actually is.
They still have to many good players though.Definetly be up there again next season.

But so will we

rednewbie · « **Reply #14 on:** July 12, 2011, 07:08:56 AM »

Quote from: crasher1in on July 12, 2011, 05:29:17 AM

I'm not sure if this is right ,but i remember reading somewhere that a week of Adebayor's wages are enough to feed his entire village for a year?

bet you could feed your neighborhood for a year... whats your point?

Alonso_The_Assassin · « **Reply #15 on:** July 12, 2011, 07:24:10 AM »

Haha. More cuntish acts. Hardly surprising.

Alpherah · « **Reply #16 on:** July 12, 2011, 08:42:57 AM »

Assuming he's not on loan somewhere, how are his wages outside of the FFP rules?
-edit-
Because he was signed before 2010? how stupid is that? .. wages are wages

all_funkt_up · « **Reply #17 on:** July 12, 2011, 08:51:18 AM »

Quote from: Johnny C on July 12, 2011, 02:40:51 AM

No different than Mascherano. I seriously don't know why players and teams even bother signing contracts anymore.... (headshake)

They sign them because it suits them down to the ground - it is a win/win. Imagine, a player signs a 5 year contract. If that player wants to move, they go on strike or hand in a transfer request and get their move. If the player gets injured or their career declines, they have the safety of the long term deal to fall back on.

Happy days for player and agent.

Breitner · « **Reply #18 on:** July 12, 2011, 09:04:44 AM »

Don't blame him, blame City for their gluttony

Hank Scorpio · « **Reply #19 on:** July 12, 2011, 09:06:30 AM »

New money - him and City.

crasher1in · « **Reply #20 on:** July 12, 2011, 09:13:08 AM »

Quote from: rednewbie on July 12, 2011, 07:08:56 AM

bet you could feed your neighborhood for a year... whats your point?

That average players like him don’t deserve to make 175 k a week. Also the rent is to damn high!!

Alf · « **Reply #21 on:** July 12, 2011, 09:18:34 AM »

Man City is like a strikers graveyard. Tevez wants to leave, Adebayor and Bellamy have had public arguments with the club while Balotelli, Dzeko, Jo and Santa Cruz have gone there and done very little.

Red Beret · « **Reply #22 on:** July 12, 2011, 09:19:48 AM »

It beggars belief that this bunch of whining prima donnas have this sort of power. How did players with such rotten personalities get such control? If it were any other club having just one player kicking up this sort of a fuss on that much money could be a disaster. City can afford not to give a shit though. It would be ironic if City could actually be a vanguard club in breaking player power. If Adebayor digs his heels in he may never kick a ball again as a professional footballer.

all_funkt_up · « **Reply #23 on:** July 12, 2011, 10:59:13 AM »

Quote from: Alf on July 12, 2011, 09:18:34 AM

Balotelli, Dzeko, Jo and Santa Cruz have gone there and filled their boots.

-Willo- · « **Reply #24 on:** July 12, 2011, 11:01:41 AM »

Imagine just having a weeks wages of Adebayor, I'd be satisfied with that and it'd set me up for life, jealous of these twats big time.

Anywhichwayucan · « **Reply #25 on:** July 12, 2011, 11:07:46 AM »

Corinthians bid 35 million for Tevez?

stewy17 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 12, 2011, 11:14:53 AM »

I think he's got a point to be fair, he's probably watched Jo and Bellamy and Bridge rotting with the youth team and thought fuck that.

He may be a prima donna money grabbing rat, and he's arguably reaping what he's sowed by moving to such a c*nt of a club BUT City are a joke the way they treat these players.

You can't simply expect to bench / reserve players like adebayor and not grant him a sale to another club for a discounted price when it's pretty obvious that the club doesn't want him anymore.

effectively they're destroying the career of these lads by freezing them out of the team and out of the transfer market.

Anywhichwayucan · « **Reply #27 on:** July 12, 2011, 11:16:45 AM »

Quote from: stewy17 on July 12, 2011, 11:14:53 AM

I think he's got a point to be fair, he's probably watched Jo and Bellamy and Bridge rotting with the youth team and thought fuck that.

He may be a prima donna money grabbing rat, and he's arguably reaping what he's sowed by moving to such a c*nt of a club BUT City are a joke the way they treat these players.

You can't simply expect to bench / reserve players like adebayor and not grant him a sale to another club for a discounted price when it's pretty obvious that the club doesn't want him anymore.

effectively they're destroying the career of these lads by freezing them out of the team and out of the transfer market.

yet ballbag after ballbag sign for 'em.

RJH · « **Reply #28 on:** July 12, 2011, 12:35:49 PM »

Quote from: Alpherah on July 12, 2011, 08:42:57 AM

Assuming he's not on loan somewhere, how are his wages outside of the FFP rules?
-edit-
Because he was signed before 2010? how stupid is that? .. wages are wages

Just another brilliant loop hole in the FFP rules.

1021 · « **Reply #29 on:** July 12, 2011, 01:08:58 PM »

There needs to be a wage cap.
That kind of money for that sort of player.
Jesus wept.

stoa · « **Reply #30 on:** July 12, 2011, 03:41:35 PM »

Quote from: Alf on July 12, 2011, 09:18:34 AM

Man City is like a strikers graveyard. Tevez wants to leave, Adebayor and Bellamy have had public arguments with the club while Balotelli, Dzeko, Jo and Santa Cruz have gone there and done very little.

That's the problem when you have shitloads of money and your solution to everything is throwing shitloads of it at the next player. Nobody is buying anyone from you and while you keep on signing the next big name hoping he's going to succeed the players already there will cause trouble. I love it...

dalarr · « **Reply #31 on:** July 12, 2011, 04:27:29 PM »

Quote from: Anywhichwayucan on July 12, 2011, 11:07:46 AM

Corinthians bid 35 million for Tevez?

I know absolutely nothing about the Brazilian league and it`s finances, but that surprised me too

Immoral King Brian Blessed · « **Reply #32 on:** July 12, 2011, 04:32:39 PM »

Some decent schadenfreude (or however the hell you spell it) for Arsenal fans.

Canada Loves Anfield · « **Reply #33 on:** July 12, 2011, 04:32:59 PM »

Quote from: Breitner on July 12, 2011, 09:04:44 AM

Don't blame him, blame City for their gluttony

This is pretty much it

L666KOP · « **Reply #34 on:** July 12, 2011, 04:59:30 PM »

Surprised anyone has noticed...........
Lazy arrogant fucker.

thegoodfella · « **Reply #35 on:** July 12, 2011, 05:11:04 PM »

Do your shit dance of celebration Adebayor, do your shit dance.

Terry De Niro · « **Reply #36 on:** July 12, 2011, 05:21:02 PM »

Let this be a lesson to all the "we want this and that player here, NOW !!!"..

Team spirit is a massive thing to have at any club and all you need is a couple of Adebayor types, and your dressing room spirit is fucked.

Red Beret · « **Reply #37 on:** July 12, 2011, 06:09:48 PM »

Quote from: stewy17 on July 12, 2011, 11:14:53 AM

I think he's got a point to be fair, he's probably watched Jo and Bellamy and Bridge rotting with the youth team and thought fuck that.

He may be a prima donna money grabbing rat, and he's arguably reaping what he's sowed by moving to such a c*nt of a club BUT City are a joke the way they treat these players.

You can't simply expect to bench / reserve players like adebayor and not grant him a sale to another club for a discounted price when it's pretty obvious that the club doesn't want him anymore.

effectively they're destroying the career of these lads by freezing them out of the team and out of the transfer market.

Each of these players has waltzed into City thinking they're the big man and what happened to all the others wont happen to them. Manchester City - the place where footballing egos go to die.

Billy The Kid. · « **Reply #38 on:** July 12, 2011, 06:16:09 PM »

Quote from: Terry De Niro on July 12, 2011, 05:21:02 PM

Let this be a lesson to all the "we want this and that player here, NOW !!!"..

Team spirit is a massive thing to have at any club and all you need is a couple of Adebayor types, and your dressing room spirit is fucked.

Well said. Spot on there Terry

City fans go on about themselves being the richest club in the world like it's some sort of credible brag. I laugh when I hear them spout the likes of "We can buy whoever we want, we've got the money". The irony of it all really is that they (and their board) are actually whoring their club out to each and every single mercenary c*nt in the game. Putting in ludicrous bids for player X or Y is just inviting it all on themselves.

Rigden · « **Reply #39 on:** July 12, 2011, 06:24:02 PM »

And to think I live on about 100 quid a week