Lassana diarra to Man city - according to tribal football

[lol]

http://tribalfootball.com/?q=content/man-city-beat-man-utd-spurs-portsmouths-diarra

Man City beat Man Utd, Spurs for Portsmouth's Diarra

17.11.08 | tribalfootball.com
Manchester City have clinched a £10 million deal for Portsmouth midfielder Lassana Diarra, it has been revealed.
The People says City have beaten Tottenham and Manchester United to the signing of Diarra.
City have blown their rivals out of the water with an £85,000-a-week wage offer and the deal is described as 'virtually done'.
Under-fire City chief Mark Hughes is desperate to shore up his struggling team with a quality holding midfielder.
Diarra, 23, has a get-out clause in his Pompey deal enabling him to talk to any club who offer £10m.
Ex-Pompey chief Harry Redknapp wanted to take Diarra to Spurs and United chief Alex Ferguson saw him as a replacement for injury hit Owen Hargreaves.
But neither can compete with City's skyhigh wage offer as the club's new Arab owners flex their muscles.

 

[thetallaghttiger]

well if tribal say so, it has to be true! :rofl:

 

[Hoowl]

It's not too far fetched a transfer, although Tribal are obviously a terrible 'news' website who just parrot articles from elsewhere. It's been in a few newspapers and someone over on COYS mentioned the possibility (apparently he knows a Man City member of staff) before it even hit the press.

 

[Captain Spur]

Must be true.

 

[SpurSince57]

According to Dan this has definitely got legs—but the fee's going to be closer to £20m.

 

[seamus]

I really think this will happen. City need a player like him and im sure he would love to get away from Fratton Park

 

[AngerManagement]

I don't suppose in the light of this they would be open to offers for Stephen Ireland?? While I am being realistic maybe a cheeky bid for Robiniho is in order