{"id":425554,"date":"2011-05-17T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/17\/manchester-city-technical-director-mike-rigg-we-will-not-pay-over-the-odds-for-players\/"},"modified":"2011-05-17T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T13:09:00","slug":"manchester-city-technical-director-mike-rigg-we-will-not-pay-over-the-odds-for-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/17\/manchester-city-technical-director-mike-rigg-we-will-not-pay-over-the-odds-for-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City technical director Mike Rigg: We will not pay over the odds for players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Adithya Ananth<\/h3>\n<h4>17 May 2011 14:09:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"56.7372047244\">\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Money And Football\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/111900\/111915_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Money And Football<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"15.68\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/manchester-city\">Manchester City<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will go into meetings with agents and the opening line is: &#8216;Oh, you can have him for \u20ac40 million \u00a335m&#8217;,&#8221; he told <em>The Independent<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll say, &#8216;What?! Where did you get that figure from?&#8217; Then it&#8217;s: &#8216;Yeah, but he&#8217;s a good player and you&#8217;re Manchester City. Everybody knows about Abu Dhabi&#8230;'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rigg added: &#8220;We are trying to make them see that the answer to that has to be &#8216;No&#8217; now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/05\/17\/2490657\/manchester-city-technical-director-mike-rigg-we-will-not-pay\" title=\"Manchester City technical director Mike Rigg: We will not pay over the odds for players\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester City technical director Mike Rigg: We will not pay over the odds for players<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Adithya Ananth 17 May 2011 14:09:00 Money And Football Related Links Teams 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Manchester City technical director Mike Rigg: We will not pay over the odds for players - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/17\/manchester-city-technical-director-mike-rigg-we-will-not-pay-over-the-odds-for-players\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Manchester City technical director Mike Rigg: We will not pay over the odds for players - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Adithya Ananth 17 May 2011 14:09:00 Money And Football Related Links Teams 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. 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