benjani thing troubling me....

Jimbo · Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 355

IF as the press reports...

he missed TWO planes and therefore (by implication) doesn't really want to
come to us....

Should we be paying a reported £8 million for a 29 year old - likelihood
being, we would only probably get 2 years out of him anyway ?

Just a thought.

jimbo

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madMental · Joined: 09 Jan 2008 Posts: 49

By all accounts he didn't get on the first two flights, the third one
was cancelled and the fourth one, the one he caught, was delayed and so
he was too late.
I'm thinking he's maybe just thick and struggles to "go to the airport
and catch a certain flight" OR 'arry/his agent(McKay) told him not to
hurry to Manchester in order to put pressure on City for some reason.
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Marrick · Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 271

One thing that I cannot understand is why the 'review' has still not been
completed. How long can it take for a couple of officials who normally deal
with transfers to look at all the documents and decide whether or not it was
completed in time? Ten minutes? If it wasn't, just say so. City had already
publicly announced that the deal had not been finalised in time so that'd be
that. Its not as if we're one of the 'big 4' who have new rules written for
them when required, is it?

Marrick · Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 271

If the article below is true it makes us look pretty bad:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/benjani-left-in-limbo-after-late-arrival-at-city-777271.html

Runci · Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

What worries me more is that we have apparently paid 9 million for him 7
million of which Portsmouth are using to pay for Dafoe

Benjani 9 mill
Dafoe 7 mill
Looks like we got the poor end of the deal then
I know who I would rather have at City

Runci
"Jimbo" wrote in message $j95.152@newsfe3-win.ntli.net...
> IF as the press reports...
>
> he missed TWO planes and therefore (by implication) doesn't really want to
> come to us....
>
> Should we be paying a reported £8 million for a 29 year old - likelihood
> being, we would only probably get 2 years out of him anyway ?
>
> Just a thought.
>
> jimbo
>
>
>
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Reddish Dave · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 17

"Jimbo" wrote in message $j95.152@newsfe3-win.ntli.net...
> IF as the press reports...
>
> he missed TWO planes and therefore (by implication) doesn't really want to
> come to us....
>
> Should we be paying a reported £8 million for a 29 year old - likelihood
> being, we would only probably get 2 years out of him anyway ?
>

The cruciate injury is a worry, IMHO. I don't want us to have another
"Fowler" on our hands....

Benjani signs Confirmed at 1am.

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