Manchester City midfielder Patrick Vieira on retirement, City eye Alexis Sanchez as Carlos Tevez nears exit
Patrick Vieira unsure on retirement
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Patrick-Vieira-c29316, the 34-year-old Manchester City defensive midfielder, revealed he was not certain whether or not he was ready to retire at the end of the current campaign. Despite being an older player, he has made 25 appearances this season and has scored
five goals in all competitions.
The former France international insisted he would continue playing as long as it was for a top club and he was enjoying his football. He hinted he could be making a Manchester City exit, saying he was considering a move back to France.
Vieira said while speaking to reporters, “It is still 50-50 at the moment. It would not be a problem for me to stop tomorrow because I have been lucky enough to experience everything… I still want to play and if I have an exciting proposition here (France)
or somewhere else in England, I would probably play on.”
The 1998 World Cup winner said it could be a while until he finally retired, he continued, “If I have nothing exciting, I will stop. There is a chance I could stop, but at the moment my mind isn't telling me that I will be stopping in a couple of months.”
The former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Inter-c39567 Milan in the January transfer window of 2010, after a falling out with Portuguese manager Jose Mourinho. In his debut season for the Manchester club, he made 14 appearances and scored
a single goal.
Manchester City to bid £30 million for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alexis-Sánchez-c4979
Manchester City are reportedly willing to pay as much as £30 million to bring in Alexis Sanchez, the 22-year-old Udinese forward, during the summer transfer window. City’s current number one, Carlos Tevez has made it clear he wishes to leave and City manager
Roberto Mancini is doing his best to find a replacement for next season.
Despite a decent season, the Argentine striker seems to be unhappy at the Eastlands. He also handed in a transfer request earlier in the season. While that was turned down by the club and Tevez was told to remain with City until the end of the campaign,
it will be close to impossible for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mancini-c23323 to try and convince the forward to stick around for next season.
So far Serie A giants Inter Milan are favorites to sign the troubled Argentinean in the summer. City have put an estimated price tag of about £30 million on the 27-year-old forward, the same amount they will have to pay for Sanchez, if they manage to convince
the Serie A outfit to part with the highly impressive striker. Manchester City will be fighting off http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chile-c2871 international.
Sanchez has made 29 appearances this season and has scored 12 goals in all competitions. This is his career best for Udinese, having previously just scored 3 and 5 goals in his first two seasons respectively.
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