Kolo Toure To Leave Arsenal For Manchester City In Micah
Richards Swap – Report
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, who has reportedly agreed a fee
of €13 million for Ajax’s Belgian centre-half Thomas Vermaelen, has
also been linked with a move for Manchester City’s utility defender
Micah Richards.
Wenger will let Kolo Toure move in the opposite direction to
Eastlands, according to reports in The Daily Mail, which also
claims that Richards has been touted around Premier League clubs
for £6m, as City boss Mark Hughes has lost patience with the
player’s apparently poor attitude.
That is a significant reduction in the £20m he was rated at only
last season, and it may be that Wenger would rather take £10m from
the Citizens for Toure.
The Ivorian has 12 months left on his Gunners contract and has
his heart set on a move to City, The Mail reports, after almost
joining them in the January transfer window.