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Shullda built the team around Hart, Richards, Onouha, Johnson, Ireland, Struddige replace the home grown ones with foreign ones of similar quality baffles me aswell as JJ said

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Can only really cosing flojo and tyred and ice tbh. Noones expecting city to win the league this season, but they're gonna be a threat without doubt and they are in that period where they're attractin

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i don't get what they're doing tbh, they had a decent basis.

keep the core of the team last year and add a left back (kolarov?), box to box midfield player (toure?) and a creative forward (silva?) and they'd have been ok.

replacing the likes of bellamy and de jong with donavon and ramires (if reports are true) and richards with boateng just seems utterly pointless to me and will do nothing but disrupt harmony

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silva aint a centre forward,

they dont need donovan at all.... feel sorry johnson, gonna have bare competition.

we will still beat them first game of season, quote me.

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Dont think Dononvan is a good signing for City TBH.

Buying him cos Everton want him, City will then say ok give us Arteta lol

lol Man City are moving like how you play monopoly with your bredrins

your bredrin has bond street & regent street

you land on oxfort street an make him pay way more than you did

big up citeh :lol:

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Shullda built the team around Hart, Richards, Onouha, Johnson, Ireland, Struddige replace the home grown ones with foreign ones of similar quality baffles me aswell as JJ said

Don't be silly if they did do that they won't anything!

Edit: Do you support Man United?

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Onouha probably aint good enough, that said he should have been made 2nd or 3rd choice in a position and see if he could improve around better players and still not be so far down the line that he can still get a respectful amount of game time.

Hart will be their number 1 long-term, just they have to play him from the opening day.

Johnson is a crock.

Sturridge left, and tbh I dont think there was anything City could have done to stop him.

Ireland is just the baffling one to me.

Man City problem is they have too much money available to them and Hughes bought a bunch of Premiership players and now Mancini has bought a bag of foreign players, with the difference in quality not that obvious, they need to shift some players, but that wont probably start until the season kicks off.

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ROBERTO MANCINI needs a frantic five-week fire sale to offload up to £130million worth of stars and comply with Premier League rules.

The Manchester City manager has 37 first-team players but has just over a month to meet the new requirement for a maximum 25-man squad.

It means the likes of Craig Bellamy, who has been linked with Spurs, Nigel De Jong, bought for £16m, and the unsettled Stephen Ireland could all leave for knockdown prices before the squad list is submitted to the Premier League on September 1.

And with Mancini, who has assessed his playing staff during City's pre-season tour of the United States, set to conclude a deal for Aston Villa's James Milner, he is desperate to get the bulk of those players out of the door at Eastlands within 20 days.

He said: "I know that we must sell some players because in 20 days we must have a list with 25 players. I am disappointed because some players must change teams now. It is difficult for them to play for us.

"When you play in four competitions you must have a large squad because if not you have difficulties. For this it's important we have 25 players."

The new rule is that each club must register a squad of 25 players with the Premier League - eight of which must be 'home grown'.

To qualify as 'home grown', players must have played for at least three seasons before reaching 21 with a club affiliated to either the English or Welsh FA.

Once registered, only these 25 players can feature in Premier League games until the next transfer window, although players who are still under 21 do not have to be registered and can still play.

City have bought mainly experienced players as they attempt to gatecrash the Premier League elite. Now they have a list of around a dozen players for whom they would listen to offers.

Bellamy, a £14m buy from West Ham, is rated at only £4m, while Ireland made it clear at the end of last season that he wanted out.

He is valued at between £12-15m and has attracted interest from Aston Villa as well as admiring glances from Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United.

Wayne Bridge's position has also come under threat following this week's £17m signing of left-back Alexsander Kolarov from Lazio. The former Chelsea and England defender was signed for £10m in January 2009 but will not be happy at being second choice.

Brazilian superstar Robinho, bought from Real Madrid for a record £32.5m on the day of the Abu Dhabi Group's takeover in August 2008, is still out on loan at Santos and has no intention of rejoining City before finding a new club. City could be looking at taking a hit of up to £15m if, as expected, they sell him for less than £20m.

The squad is overstocked in the defensive midfield position, which has led to talk that Dutch World Cup hero De Jong may move on. The player was signed from Hamburg in January 2009 but must now compete with new signing Yaya Toure, England international Gareth Barry and even Patrick Vieira for a place in Mancini's starting side.

Pablo Zabaleta and Vincent Kompany were also bought as defensive midfielders when they arrived at Eastlands just weeks before the takeover.

England winger Shaun Wright-Phillips, not a regular starter under Mancini, is another tipped for a possible departure after the breakdown of his contract talks. Wright-Phillips is two years through a four-year deal and has turned down an extension worth £70,000 a week after initially demanding £100,000 a week.

Academy graduate Nedum Onuoha and former England prodigy Micah Richards are also likely to leave before the season kicks off at Spurs on August 14.

Onuoha said at the end of last season that he doesn't think Mancini appreciates him, while Richards has not shown the form in the past two years that propelled him into Steve McClaren's England side at just 17.

Sunderland, Spurs, Everton and Aston Villa have shown interest in the pair and City would be happy to receive around £12m for both.

Not all the players on the list will leave and Mancini will try to trim his squad by sending young fringe players such as Vladimir Weiss, Kelvin Etuhu, Greg Cunningham and the talented Michael Johnson out on loan to gain first-team experience.

Brazilian striker Jo, a disastrous £18m signing in the weeks leading up to the Abu Dhabi buyout, is not wanted and City will be lucky to recoup a fraction of their outlay. Ecuadorian striker Felipe Caicedo has also been told to find another club.

The expected losses, which could top £40m, emphasise the club's lack of awareness in the transfer market during the first 18 months of the takeover.

As well as Robinho, it is widely accepted they paid over the odds for Joleon Lescott, at £24m, Roque Santa Cruz, who cost £17.5m, and Kolo Toure, who did not impress in his first season after leaving Arsenal for £16m.

The jury is still out on Emmanuel Adebayor, who also arrived from the Emirates last summer - for £25m - after he scored just 14 goals last term.

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1 Republic of Ireland GK Shay Given (vice-captain)

2 England DF Micah Richards

3 England DF Wayne Bridge

4 England DF Nedum Onuoha

5 Argentina DF Pablo Zabaleta

6 England MF Michael Johnson

7 Republic of Ireland MF Stephen Ireland

8 England MF Shaun Wright-Phillips

10 Brazil FW Robinho (at Santos until 4 August 2010)

11 England MF Adam Johnson

12 England GK Joe Hart

14 Paraguay FW Roque Santa Cruz

15 Spain DF Javier Garrido

17 Germany DF Jérôme Boateng

18 England MF Gareth Barry

19 England DF Joleon Lescott

20 Ecuador FW Felipe Caicedo

21 Spain MF David Silva

24 France MF Patrick Vieira

25 Togo FW Emmanuel Adebayor

26 Colombia GK David González

27 Brazil FW Jô

28 Côte d'Ivoire DF Kolo Touré (captain)

29 Nigeria MF Kelvin Etuhu

30 England DF Shaleum Logan

32 Argentina FW Carlos Tévez

33 Belgium MF Vincent Kompany

34 Netherlands MF Nigel de Jong

36 England DF Javan Vidal

39 Wales FW Craig Bellamy

40 Slovakia MF Vladimír Weiss

42 Côte d'Ivoire MF Yaya Touré

44 Belgium DF Dedryck Boyata

45 Republic of Ireland DF Greg Cunningham

48 Norway MF Abdisalam Ibrahim

52 England FW Alex Nimely

— England GK Stuart Taylor

— Serbia DF Aleksandar Kolarov

Don't need to be registered.

30 pro's, need to lose 5 of those not bold, plus one more for every other new player they buy over 21 years old. TBH it isn't that hard, the likes of Garrido, Logan, Etuhu, Jo/Santa Cruz (or both), and 1 of the 4 keepers. Why the f*ck they re-sign Stuart Taylor.

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City are two central defenders(European class not EPL class) away from being champions.

Mancini isnt going to make it happen instead he is looking to bring in attack minded players.

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