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We're due a bit of good news. He's been banging them in for me on FIFA '11.

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Dzeko has scored eight league goals in 16 games but recently had a public spat with McClaren, ignoring his manager's outstretched hand after being substituted against Werder Bremen earlier this month.

Yup, he's a dead cert to come to City, and will no doubt have the papers talking when he does something like this for us.

Don't know enough about him, so reserving judgement at the moment. However it could be another player with a temprament problem?

I find that a but unbelievable to be honest but if true that would be great.

avoidconfusion wrote:I find that a but unbelievable to be honest but if true that would be great.

He probably just poked Mancini on Facebook and after the media caught hold of it it's turned into a letter!

What I find interesting about this is where the story has come from.

I can't remember which story re Tevez it was in yesterday but it was a decent journo who said something like "despite their many faults one thing that Manchester City do not do is leak stories deliberately"....the context being that we had managed to keep this Tevez stuff in house for a long time when it was a proper bombshell of a story.

Accordingly, I suspect that this story has come from him or his advisors....

Either way I am pretty sure there is some degree of truth in this and I love the fact that some of the players we've signed recently (or are looking to sign) have explained their genuine desire to come to us above anyone else. Sure there is a financial element, that is indisputable, but the likes of David Silva could have earned very very good money elsewhere and he actively wanted to come to City.

That, my friends, is brilliant

do you reckon he wrote it on an airmail letter, licked the envelope, bought a stamp, looked up the address of the club t'internet and wrote it on the letter and then posted it snail mail?

Premadonna footballers have someone to wipe their arse these days, I cant see this myself.

Wonderwall wrote:do you reckon he wrote it on an airmail letter, licked the envelope, bought a stamp, looked up the address of the club t'internet and wrote it on the letter and then posted it snail mail?

Premadonna footballers have someone to wipe their arse these days, I cant see this myself.

Dear me WW must you be so literal in your interpretation......for "Edin Dzeko wrote a letter to MCFC" I think you can read "Edin told his agent to call Marwood in an overt, please come to get me communication"

Underlying effect is the same in both cases

ant london wrote:What I find interesting about this is where the story has come from.

I can't remember which story re Tevez it was in yesterday but it was a decent journo who said something like "despite their many faults one thing that Manchester City do not do is leak stories deliberately"....the context being that we had managed to keep this Tevez stuff in house for a long time when it was a proper bombshell of a story.

Accordingly, I suspect that this story has come from him or his advisors....

Either way I am pretty sure there is some degree of truth in this and I love the fact that some of the players we've signed recently (or are looking to sign) have explained their genuine desire to come to us above anyone else. Sure there is a financial element, that is indisputable, but the likes of David Silva could have earned very very good money elsewhere and he actively wanted to come to City.

That, my friends, is brilliant

There have been plenty of rumours and speculations going on - for instance after Tevez missed the Christmas party, which he himself chose the polka dot theme for. I think the media only held back until they had something rock solid, i.e. the written transfer request. I'm not sure at all that the club leaked this intentionally, and if they did it would most likely have been a preventive measure to regain control of the situation.

I know nothing about him and as far as im concerned the whole "we need dzeko" brigade probably dont either. People just love to be a part of a big old bandwagon.

Stinks of Jo to me. Wouldnt mind being proven wrong but i doubt he is half the player/goalscorer tevez is and by time we see his true potential shit or otherwise it could have cost us a CL place.

ashton287 wrote:I know nothing about him and as far as im concerned the whole "we need dzeko" brigade probably dont either. People just love to be a part of a big old bandwagon.

Stinks of Jo to me. Wouldnt mind being proven wrong but i doubt he is half the player/goalscorer tevez is and by time we see his true potential shit or otherwise it could have cost us a CL place.

Or maybe they aren't limited to the Premier League, they watch other European leagues too when they can, and this is how they came to know of Dzeko.

if herman writes a 'come and get me' letter to mourinho, he'll rightly be castigated. Yet when a player does it about joining us we think it's good. Hope Real don't show interest after he joins, as we can't really complain when the inevitable happens

ashton287 wrote:[highlight]I know nothing about him and as far as im concerned the whole "we need dzeko" brigade probably dont either.[/highlight]People just love to be a part of a big old bandwagon.

Stinks of Jo to me. Wouldnt mind being proven wrong but i doubt he is half the player/goalscorer tevez is and by time we see his true potential shit or otherwise it could have cost us a CL place.

The fact of your own ignorance of other European / world football doesn't give you the right to assume the same level of ignorance in others.

Maybe they watch ESPN? Since ESPN dont have many Prem matches they tend to show a lot of German/Italian/Spanish football so it's good for broadening your horizons.

Kladze wrote:

ashton287 wrote:[highlight]I know nothing about him and as far as im concerned the whole "we need dzeko" brigade probably dont either.[/highlight]People just love to be a part of a big old bandwagon.

Stinks of Jo to me. Wouldnt mind being proven wrong but i doubt he is half the player/goalscorer tevez is and by time we see his true potential shit or otherwise it could have cost us a CL place.

The fact of your own ignorance of other European / world football doesn't give you the right to assume the same level of ignorance in others.

Whilst I would not put it so bluntly, I agree

I have seen quite a bit of him - admittedly only television and clips - seems a natural for the PL - genuinely 2 footed and pretty good in the air

reminds me a lot of Torres in his prime - and I genuinely think could be better than that

Interesting article, spoiled only perhaps by Zabba training in a sports bra in one of the photos.

Re Dzeko, it's a valid point that it's easy to be pleased if a player has done this with regard to coming to us and that we'd be rightly annoyed if the shoe was on the other foot. But hard as it is to get used to, it's in OUR favour so I'm prepared to overlook the moral standpoint.

The only opinion I have of Dzeko is formed from what people whose opinion I value, think about him, and by all accounts the majority of sane people seem to think he's mint (so cheer up Ashton!).

And I do not want Torres as the lady is always injured, besides the fact that I don't think he's play for another English club than LIverpool.

Supposedly written in August

I'd have been more excited if the letter had been written sometime later than August.

Still, for me, wanting Dzeko at City isn't an FM love-in or simply riding on a bandwagon, he's just a very good player. In Oz exposure to the German league's pretty high - One HD, ESPN and Setanta all show games and Bundesliga wrap-ups.

Outside La Liga, I'd have more faith bringing a Bundesliga player than I would someone from Serie A or Ligue Un. The style of play most closely mirrors English football in being fast and physical.

Dzeko's been the best forward there for 3 seasons. He and Grafite took the equivalent of Everton or Villa to the title (I know parity is greater there than in the Prem but Wolfsburg came 15th or something a year or two before he signed).

There's every chance he could be another Jo or a Shevchenko but that could happen with anyone we sign.

Of the targets who will realistically be available, Dzeko is the best we could get. Plus he's in form (82 in 135, 8 in 15 this season) and isn't always crocked (Torres).

The only thing he lacks is genuine pace. Everything else ticks the boxes very nicely.