City striker set for cut-price exit to Marseille
Published 23:00 27/07/10 By John Cross
French champions Marseille wants to do a cut-price deal for Manchester City outcast Roque Santa Cruz.
City are ready to cut their losses on last summer's £18m buy and sell him for less than HALF of their outlay as they look to drastically cut their squad.
That appeals to Marseille boss Didier Deschamps who only has a limited budget but wants to bring in a big-name striker and tentative enquiries found that Didier Drogba was way out of their price range and was not for sale.
Former Blackburn striker Santa Cruz, 28, is on City's list of players they are ready to offload along with the likes of Craig Bellamy and Shaun Wright-Phillips.
Juventus also fancy Emmanuel Adebayor but City are not currently interested in letting him go despite the impending arrival of Inter Milan striker Mario Balotelli.
But that will mean that Santa Cruz can go and Marseille are in the queue of clubs although his wages of around £80,000-a-week will still be a stumbling block which they must overcome.
