By Adithya Ananth
17 May 2011 14:09:00
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Manchester City technical director Mike Rigg has admitted that the club are offered players at exhorbitant prices due to the immense wealth of their Abu Dhabi-based backers.
The Eastlands outfit have spent heavily since their 2008 takeover and Rigg has revealed that agents still tout excessive fees, but maintains the club will not fork out more than is necessary.
“I will go into meetings with agents and the opening line is: ‘Oh, you can have him for €40 million £35m’,” he told The Independent.
“I’ll say, ‘What?! Where did you get that figure from?’ Then it’s: ‘Yeah, but he’s a good player and you’re Manchester City. Everybody knows about Abu Dhabi…'”
Rigg added: “We are trying to make them see that the answer to that has to be ‘No’ now.”
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Manchester City technical director Mike Rigg: We will not pay over the odds for players