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Shay Given signs for Manchester City for £5.9m plus add-ons


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He's switched clubs. I don't follow City. I don't care about any other team in the EPL than Newcastle. I still wish him the best of luck.

 

On a side note... when Ashley is out or remember the pin code to his VISA card... we'll get Buffon or Akinfeev  :razz:, at least we are not competing with City about those two  ;D

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Guest Howaythetoon

I'm just extremely bitter at the moment and pretty gutted about Shay leaving us, I'll come around one day though and will give Shay his due.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Thought this worthwhile of a bump as it has now come out (from Llambias at the Supporter's Panel meeting) that the fee we received for Shay Given was £5.9m.

 

Let the moaning commence. (Probably justified, to be honest.)

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Guest firetotheworks

We cant even hold the worlds richest club to ransom for a decent fee for our best player. So fuck if he wanted to go, better an unhappy Given going for what he's worth at another time than selling him for peanuts.

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Thought this worthwhile of a bump as it has now come out (from Llambias at the Supporter's Panel meeting) that the fee we received for Shay Given was £5.9m.

 

Let the moaning commence. (Probably justified, to be honest.)

 

Where did you seen this? Seen a few bits from the Chronicle but I didn't read that.

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Given is a cunt end of.

 

Whinged his way to being sold on the cheap; this included refusing to play for our club. How anyone has any respect left for him is beyond me. Couldn't have left at a worse time, the fee couldn't be much worse. Can only wish him the worst.

 

 

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Guest The Libertine

given hardly helped tbf. begging to leave and practically forcing us to sell him for whatever price was offered. this is probably the only outgoing player who we've not got a fair or generous price for.

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Not sure I understand the criticism concerning not holding Manchester City to ransom over him.  Keeping him on on whatever wages, upset and rotting in the reserves and not knowing who (if anyone) was going to come knocking in the summer or beyond seems a huge risk.  Getting what was gettable and him out the door still seems like the smarter move.

 

But eh, he's moved on and I'll try to too.  Agree with others that the way he went about it deserves no excuses and really lowered my opinion of him.

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Guest Heneage

Given wanted out

 

 

[move]Man City knew this [/move] 

 

 

                       [move]:crazy2:[/move]

Berbatov also wanted out...

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Guest firetotheworks

So did that 'Ronaldo' I've heard people talking about.

My point was more the ability to negotiate a tremendous price for him.

 

Yeah I agree with it, that was one of the options available to us. My point was more the ability to hold onto your best players regardless of what they want.

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Given wanted out

 

 

[move]Man City knew this [/move] 

 

 

                       [move]:crazy2:[/move]

Berbatov also wanted out...

 

Bellamy wanted out, Man City knew that as well, yet West Ham robbed them blind, £15 million for that old waster.

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Given wanted out

 

 

[move]Man City knew this [/move] 

 

 

                       [move]:crazy2:[/move]

Berbatov also wanted out...

 

Bellamy wanted out, Man City knew that as well, yet West Ham robbed them blind, £15 million for that old waster.

 

You've also got to remember that as a club we owed a lot more to Given than Spurs did to Berbs or West ham to Bellamy. For all the years of loyal service he'd given to the club he had to be allowed to leave if he wanted to, and therefore to even get £6 million is pretty good.

 

On another point I'm still shocked and disgusted at the number of you who are willing to abuse Given, he is still and always will be a legend in my eyes. He eventually got fed up with the turmoil at the club, but who wouldn't have, I'm amazed he stayed with us as long as he did.

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Guest nufc1892

if we had competent people in charge over the transfer of Shay Given who knew how to make business and knew the real value of what they were selling we could easily and we should had sold Shay Given for at least £10m.

 

The Given transfer=Really bad transfer business imo

 

Who is runing the outgoing transfer negotiations at our club btw?

 

Wise?

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Guest firetotheworks

Given wanted out

 

 

[move]Man City knew this [/move] 

 

 

                       [move]:crazy2:[/move]

Berbatov also wanted out...

 

Bellamy wanted out, Man City knew that as well, yet West Ham robbed them blind, £15 million for that old waster.

 

You've also got to remember that as a club we owed a lot more to Given than Spurs did to Berbs or West ham to Bellamy. For all the years of loyal service he'd given to the club he had to be allowed to leave if he wanted to, and therefore to even get £6 million is pretty good.

 

On another point I'm still shocked and disgusted at the number of you who are willing to abuse Given, he is still and always will be a legend in my eyes. He eventually got fed up with the turmoil at the club, but who wouldn't have, I'm amazed he stayed with us as long as he did.

 

Can you explain this please?

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Given in the end felt like he owed us nothing, cannot see why people think we owed him anything either.

 

Some people just won't admit he treat us like shit over his move to Citeh, you are like battered wives...oh but i love him, he didn't mean it...its not his fault...he's depressed and unhappy.

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