<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f3826045-95e3-47f8-8785-6b6385700a11/DF09F1FB-033A-4DF7-8685-47DFAC487051/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/11072009/58/premier-league-manchester-city-end-eto-o-pursuit.html" href="http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/11072009/58/premier-league-manchester-city-end-eto-o-pursuit.html" style="font-size: 11px;">uk.eurosport.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/11072009/58/premier-league-manchester-city-end-eto-o-pursuit.html"><A href="http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/manchester-city/">Manchester City</A> have announced that they will not be signing Barcelona striker <A href="http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/samuel-etoo.html">Samuel Eto'o</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/11072009/58/premier-league-manchester-city-end-eto-o-pursuit.html"><P>"Samuel Eto'o is undoubtedly a fine footballer but the circumstances surrounding him were such that the deal could not be completed," City chief executive Garry Cook told the club website.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/11072009/58/premier-league-manchester-city-end-eto-o-pursuit.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/img/D6B07B37-E4C4-4AB3-AB2E-220DB30B7431" alt="FOOTBALL 2008-2009 La Liga Barcelona Samuel Eto'o - 0" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/11072009/58/premier-league-manchester-city-end-eto-o-pursuit.html"><P>"We now feel the time is right to pursue other avenues and we have a clear and strategic transfer plan, which we continue to follow."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/11072009/58/premier-league-manchester-city-end-eto-o-pursuit.html"><P>City manager Mark Hughes confirmed last week that a £22 million bid had been made for the Barcelona striker and had warned the forward that he would not wait all summer for a decision.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/11072009/58/premier-league-manchester-city-end-eto-o-pursuit.html"><P>Any possible deal had been delayed while the Cameroon international considered his future after also being offered a new two-year contract by the Spanish and European champions.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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