£20m.... Snap their hands off at the elbow!
A £20m fullback is something we can ill afford, a £20m centre forward is something we have a drastic need for.

or keep him and build a squad around him, barton, sturridge. in 5 years time we could be doing very well with these players.
ireland, dunne, isaksson, samaras (if he pulls his finger out), nedum are all capable of helping us achieve this goal. sell them and we are back to square -1

I think Micah will end up playing midfield & will probably end up one of the best in Europe (Essien type ?). & therefore 20mill + is the right sort of price. I would'nt mind him moving to another club but, please not the dark side !.

There's not a single quote in this 'story' to back up the sensationalist headline, except one completely irrelevant quote from an ex-player. Clearly a slow news day...

If richards has any hope of becoming a midfield player not a right back he should stay with us. He can progress into a midfield role at our club. Do feel 20 million would go a long way to turning us into a team competing for European places. Berbetov cost 11 mill so if money is spent wisely then 20 million is ample. However, do I trust SP with that money? of course not, and given his past transfer record, who would?

Good point Windy, but 20 million incoming means 8 million if the 'new manager' is lucky. Do the maths, 4 million to Oldham and maybe 50% of the remaining set aside to cover trading-losses - or are we to assume a group of people, with only enough clout to buy a 30% stake in the club, are going to put enough dollars into the club to make it profitable?

Ideally we can hold onto him a little longer but money talks. Hopefully Micah will hold out for Chelsea. We can't sell him to Utd!!!

windy,you are not wrong in stating that we need a 20 million pound striker,but at the expence of our crown jewels?Its a tricky one isnt it?season tickets are down,the brand of football we are playing is awful,the board know this and something does need to be done and quick.We as fans need some crowd pleasers,someone who will put bums on seats,to get the feel good factor back at our great club,when this feel good factor is back the atmosphere will return,whether the board feel that Richards is a bums on seats player i dont know,but sell him maybe,but to Utd NO.

he is worth more than 20 million. If we can get 30 mill then sell him, otherwise hold on and hope we don't go down.

I don't like the sound of these so called foreign investors. "£10 million to rebuild the squad" whoop de doo. City need at least 10 new players.

I'm sorry but my view is based on the fact that we have major goalscoring problems. If we are not bought by this supposed American consortium during the summer then we will still have no money to spend on new players. While Micah is on his way to becoming a great player he is still a luxury in our side and not an out and out goalscorer. If we can get 20-25 million for him then we should sell him but only after all that money is released on new players. We could buy two top strikers and a creative midfielder for that sum. Bringing in new strikers to keep us up next year must be the priority.

This story is just one of those unsettling plays that the MU Media like to put out whenever City get a remotely decent footballer - It's designed to increase the pressure on City and sow a seed in the players mind that he's too big for club like City. At th end of the day though footballers have mighty big egos so whether micah stays or leaves will be up to him and there's nowt any of us mere mortals can do about it .... Set the price at £30m and end the talk.

We have a great academy or is a shop window. I think that city will end up like Espanyol or 1860 Munich.

If they're prepared to pay £30 mill for an overweight cartoon character who's only any good against the lesser teams .Then i should think £20 mill would only get one half of a super athlete like Micah.

he is far better than Rio (�30m. i'd rather we sell him to Chelsea for less money than to see him in a Red shirt. but if we sell him we are only proving that we are just a selling club with no ambtions

It is just theMEN starting the pre-derby windup early! Do you think any manager is seriously going to start talking up a bidding war for one of his summer targets. This article is just designed to unsettle Richards and wind up City fans. Laugh it off!

It's worth noting that this story first appeared in the Sunday Mirror yesterday, and as we all know, there is no paper as hates us more than the Rag loving Mirror.
As to the title of this piece, frankly I don't believe a word that comes out of the Manchester City Boardroom anymore, and the plain facts are that if there is no takeover, then Micah will be sold. We are set to make an extra 10m on the new TV deal, but our wages bill has gone back up to 36m and we've just posted a half yearly defecit of 7.1m. The extra TV money therefore has already gone, and given that there's no way we're gonna survive another season in the Prem (and that's assuming we stay up) with the likes of Dickov, Beasley, Dabo, Corradi, Trabelsi and Hamann in the squad, then we're going to need some serious spending cash from somewhere, and with season ticket renewals standing at just 14000 so far, there's only one source available to us and like it or not that's to cash in on Micah. What makes it doubly soul destroying is that all this will do is just paper over the cracks again for another year, and as such it wouldn't surprise me to see Wardle use at least half of any money we were to get for Micah to cash in some of his loans, otherwise he may never get his money back. The only hope is that the 'mystery investor' turns out to be fact rather than fiction, but even on that score I'm not optimistic. It's gonna need a major player to invest in City, not just to wipe the debts (53m) and provide a transfer kitty (20m), but to make an over the odds bid to stop the four main, and entirely self interested, factions on the City Board (Lee, Boler, Wardle & Sky TV), playing one off against the other in the hope of forcing the share price up. It's funny, every time some foreign investor has bid for a club in the Premiership so far, their identities have become common knowledge fairly early on in proceedings, but with City, four months have passed now since this 'mystery investor' was announced at the AGM, and still no-one has the faintest clue who it is! Oh, doubtless Bertie Blue Nose and some of the other club stooges will be along to advise us all that that's because City are good at keeping their cards close to their chest, or because talks are STILL in their infancy, but I submit a simpler reason - they're complete nobodies (if they exist at all), who may just have enough to buy Wardle out of the hole he's got himself into, but won't have two brass farthings for anything else. If these talks were genuine and realistic, don't you think we'd have offered Micah a wage increase long ago in an effort to keep him at the club?
My heart wants to believe he'll still be with us next season, but given the mess we're in I don't think he can be, and on that score I suggest you get used to Pearce as well, cos no investor means no new manager, cos there's no way our Chairman is going to part company with the only manager in the Prem on a Conference salary and with no compensation clause!
Worst run club in the country, bar none!

Blau, Germany - Spot on as always

Why are we looking to sign a city player when we dont need a defender even.

Blue JOhn - interesting points as always. It's funny how there is a 4-way battle for City, yet all we know is that Ray Ranson has tabled an offer. I am absolutely astounded no one has been able to identify the other three. When RA was sniffing afte Chelski it was in the press within days. When the Dubai lads went after Liverpool it was in the press within days. The fact no one can identify these people after City suggests they are either amazingly adept at ghosting in and out of COMS for talks or they don't exist. This leads me to believe a bid is being lined up either by the SAS or the invisible man. As for Micah to Man U - lmao!!! Please stop with the nonesense MUEN.

stop bleating on about richards us reds dont want him and certainly dont need him.
Sell him to chelsea so he can warm up there bench,no title for them this year.

This really is the pits but deep down we all knew this was coming.Because of the mismanaged,crushing debt,and our
complete lack of success
on the pitch,we are unable to
keep hold of our good players
or to attract anyone worth a light to the club.Unless we get proper investment(10 mill
kitty?Don't make us laugh!), unless we get a credible manager,and somehow we don't get relegated-Richards,Distin,Barton and anyone else worth selling will all be on their way in the close season.Sad,but true.

Blue john some interesting points as always.
I agree if this board are still in charge they would sell Micah for cash in the summer like a shot.

But will Micah go yet? He has all the first team football he can handle at the moment. Plays for England. Why move to some rich club to warm the bench like SWP. He can do another year or 2 for city and England, then take his pick. I don't know whether he sees it that way. But with player power these days, one things for sure, it will be up to him and not the board.

If he does go, £30m + would seem nearer the mark, given what the rags paid for that handsome devil Rio.

karma2007, rochdale,greater manchester; Dont be counting your chickens (!) & beleive me you def could do with Richards in your team, he's 10x the player Neville thinks he is ?.

Another non-story from the MUEN.

Karma, typical red who has no idea about football and just jumps on the bandwagon. SAD!