Kompany signs until 2019

[Green & Blue]

Great news to have him sign a new contract.Silva and now Vince signing new deals I couldn't be happier.Well done City

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

Just heard this. Love it! We're getting our big-hitters on board for the long-term.

[ruralblue]

Just come through now on the city app (it's great if you haven't got it!, it's like the o.s. on crack! !).

Brilliant news. These are happy folks here for the long term!

[Goaters 103]

The Talisman.

The leader and face of our club. Lynchpin, and in simple terms the straw that stirs the drink for us.

Great news. One of the five crown jewel players alongside Hart, Ya Ya, Silva and Aguero. Of all of those Vincent Kompany is quite simply the one man we could not do without.

[ayrshireblue]

I'm wondering what tomorrow is bringing. Monday was Mangala yesterday Silva and today Kompany.
Think a lot of these new contracts are lower basic wages with higher bonuses to help us get round FFP. Kompany's is in real terms only a one year extension on his previous deal but good for the captain to be seen as really happy to stay at the club.

[Dameerto]

Spare a thought for all those fat arsed lazy journalists who will now have a much harder time manufacturing stories about unrest in the City camp. The poor lambs.

[Goaters 103]

I'm wondering what tomorrow is bringing. Monday was Mangala yesterday Silva and today Kompany.
Think a lot of these new contracts are lower basic wages with higher bonuses to help us get round FFP. Kompany's is in real terms only a one year extension on his previous deal but good for the captain to be seen as really happy to stay at the club.

Rumour was that Aguero was the next one. We'll see.

[Ted Hughes]

Marvellous.

[ruralblue]

Marvellous.

Congratulations Ted!!!!

Officially your shortest post ever!!!!

You have 'ace', 'brill' and 'super' left to beat it with! Or a fuck, shit or arse!

[Wonderwall]

I think we are looking at all of our long term prospects and superstars and signing them all to new deals. this is likely to reduce the wage bill and be more Bonus based thus reducing our annual outages for FFP.

No doubt Wenger will be in the press tomorrow having a whinge about circumvention of rules that dont exist with loopholes blah blah blah

Well done City and I like very much that our Captain is staying for a long time. Just Sergio now and out Spine is complete :)

[craigmcfc]

Marvellous.

Congratulations Ted!!!!

Officially your shortest post ever!!!!

You have 'ace', 'brill' and 'super' left to beat it with! Or a fuck, shit or arse!

Or GFY which I use a lot at work.

Fantastic news re Vinnie, and of course David yesterday.

[Beefymcfc]

I think we are looking at all of our long term prospects and superstars and signing them all to new deals. this is likely to reduce the wage bill and be more Bonus based thus reducing our annual outages for FFP.

No doubt Wenger will be in the press tomorrow having a whinge about circumvention of rules that dont exist with loopholes blah blah blah

Well done City and I like very much that our Captain is staying for a long time. Just Sergio now and out Spine is complete :)

It also helps with the amortisation/depreciation on players. That possible 5 million over 1 year turns into 5 mil over 5 years and thus saves us 4 mil a year in terms of FFP.

And why I just mentioned that, I don't know.

[Beefymcfc]

Marvellous.

Congratulations Ted!!!!

Officially your shortest post ever!!!!

You have 'ace', 'brill' and 'super' left to beat it with! Or a fuck, shit or arse!

Or GFY which I use a lot at work.

Fantastic news re Vinnie, and of course David yesterday.

What, you don't add 'YC'!

[sheblue]

Ah the vinny lad top man.

[PeterParker]

Are we preparing a new contract and a cake for the Big man too?

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

Are we preparing a new contract and a cake for the Big man too?

I reckon he'll be on the 'to sell' list for next summer.

[twosips]

This is a fantastic read..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... wrong.html

Love what he says about English youngsters too and how they need to be more open-minded about their careers and to taking loans abroad. So true.

[Ted Hughes]

This is a fantastic read..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... wrong.html

Love what he says about English youngsters too and how they need to be more open-minded about their careers and to taking loans abroad. So true.

Interesting that he appears to be suggesting that some of City's youngsters are actually given the option, & most will choose to play for Middlesboro rather than Malaga. Then when you consider the links you read of between the kids & the possible loans, you hear of Guidetti, Rekik, Ruznak, Lopes, linked to clubs in Europe, but the English kids it's usually someone like Bolton etc.

I always figured that was normal in the old days, because they were all neanderthal pissheads, even the established players (even in the last decade, did anyone REALLY picture Wayne Rooney & his wife at Real Madrid!!??) but I thought today's local kids would be more open minded. In the end, surely the influence of the overseas players & managers will change that mentality (unless people like Alan Sugar get their way, enforce English quotas & set football back 30 years).

[twosips]

To be honest, and i've touched on it before in other threads, i see the reason kids don't move abroad as something that's linked to a bigger cultural problem. English arrogance mainly. We speak the world's most popular language, we're highly influential in all areas of culture and have huge sporting relevance, including the biggest football league in the world. We're not quite on the same level as the yanks, but we definitely have a huge sense of entitlement as a country.

The vast majority are lazy and don't want to learn other cultures whereas its the norm for kids in non-english speaking countries to look elsewhere for opportunities and head over here etc.. i don't think it'll ever change in football to be honest. Not drastically anyway.. We've always just presumed everything will come to us, as opposed to have to go looking for it and as a result there's very little motivation. It's all not helped either by the fact that most, even kids in the reserves, still probably clear more in a year than my parents do combined despite being about 17. It's an easy and comfy lifestyle.

[ant london]

To be honest, and i've touched on it before in other threads, i see the reason kids don't move abroad as something that's linked to a bigger cultural problem. English arrogance mainly. We speak the world's most popular language, we're highly influential in all areas of culture and have huge sporting relevance, including the biggest football league in the world. We're not quite on the same level as the yanks, but we definitely have a huge sense of entitlement as a country.

The vast majority are lazy and don't want to learn other cultures whereas its the norm for kids in non-english speaking countries to look elsewhere for opportunities and head over here etc.. i don't think it'll ever change in football to be honest. Not drastically anyway.. We've always just presumed everything will come to us, as opposed to have to go looking for it and as a result there's very little motivation. It's all not helped either by the fact that most, even kids in the reserves, still probably clear more in a year than my parents do combined despite being about 17. It's an easy and comfy lifestyle.

I have to say mate, I agree with your first paragraph but I do not really think you are seeing the full picture on the second although you do make some good points.

I've lived and worked now long term in three different non-English speaking countries and have spent extended periods working in maybe 4-5 more. I first lived overseas for 12 months when I was 19 and, I have to say, it wasn't easy at all in some respects. I can speak languages (and could speak French very well when i first moved to Paris) and am not some kind of cultural ignoramus but even with all of that, at that age, it was pretty tough at times living so far away from family and friends and familiar things. I wasn't under the kind of "make of break your career and life" pressure that some of these kids would be under...ie. when they would need a support network more than ever nor was I likely to get the kind of temptations dangled in front of me which they would.

I see the fact that so few English kids go overseas to play as a function of some of the things you say - ie. taking the easier route but also likely that their families are often against the idea due to the risks it entails. Yes, kids from less developed countries have been doing this for years but they had no choice. It was either play on dirt pitches and not monetise your talents or you up sticks and go for your dream.

As more kids realise that an "apprenticeship" in the lower UK leagues doesn't achieve results and that a move overseas does work then that may likely change.

From a non-football perspective (and linking to an extent to the unemployment thread on off topic) I think people in the UK may ultimately have to become more mobile to work in the roles at the levels they want to in the future.