City To Seal Riera Deal

[Alan D]

City to seal Riera deal
By Francisco Acedo - Created on 7 Mar 2006

Albert Riera will complete a permanent switch to Manchester City from Espanyol this month.

The 23-year-old has impressed hugely since moving to Eastlands on loan in January.

Now a Catalunyan club source has confirmed that the deal will be sealed in the next few weeks.

"The agreement for the sale of Riera is practically complete, City have confirmed their interest in closing this subject," said the source.

Espanyol's sporting director Cristobal Parralo is brokering the deal and negotiations are still ongoing, but the transfer for around €5 million (£3.5 million) is expected to be finalised shortly.

Riera confirmed that he will accept the deal, saying: "I am happy in England."

Espanyol are equally content, as they will make €2 million on Riera, having paid Bordeaux €3 million for his services only last summer.

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Espanyol are making a good little profit from it :eek: Oh well, hes done well for us since he has joined and hopefully he should keep improving and playing well.

[Alan D]

lol - nevermind :eek:

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Albert Riera will not be completing a transfer to Manchester City, the Club have confirmed today.

Reports in Spain have suggested that the 23-year-old will finalise a permanent move from Espanyol in the next few days.

But Club spokesman Paul Tyrrell said: "Albert has quickly settled into the club and we are pleased with his progress, however there is no imminent deal to permanently transfer the player to us.

"There is already an established process in the loan agreement which includes the option to buy the player at the end of his loan period."

http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?pageid=115&pagegid=%7BDBD12D53%2D8346%2D431D%2DA04F%2D5D0F8664DE80%7D&newsid=311787&siteid=&pageno=&newscategory=1051&frommonth=1&fromyear=2006&tomonth=3&toyear=2006
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[NER_MCFC]

He looked pretty good in the derby game; it'd be nice if he winds up with us.

[Alan D]

He has done really well since he joined us since January :) Hopefully we can sign Riera permanently (if he continues to play well) in the summer and we can sign Musampa on loan again.