***Transfer Rumours Thread*** [ALL RUMOUR TOPICS MERGED]

[Renato_CTID]

http://www.corrieredellosport.it/calcio ... +Balotelli

According to the main sport newspaper of Italy, an official bid for 22 ml £ was made for discussed and very talented young striker Mario Balotelli. He told yesterday to Italian Skysports: " Man City? Why not? I'm a big friend of Roberto Mancini!"

[Vhero]

Kolarov too?? Fooking hell we replacing half our defence again this season? I am one for upping the quality of our team but not replacing it every window.

[Goaters 103]

So to recap, at present we are in for Toure, Milner, Kolarov, Dzeko, Balotelli, Ibrahimovic, Silva, Torres and Gerrard?

Definately need a left back so Kolarov seems to fit the bill, Toure can play cent midf and cent half so he fits in, Gerrard to play box to box, Torres up top with Silva on the wing, and Milner/Balotelli/Dzeko and Zlatan on the bench. What a team we are going to have .......

Wake me up when somethings on the OS.

[Beeks]

Tevez not for sale

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... evez__city

[Blue Blood]

[Buffalo Soldier]

[Goaters 103]

[Beeks]

Hmmm...Barca having second thoughts?

http://www.tribalfootball.com/guardiola ... ure-942421

[Wooders]

[john@staustell]

IBH you should know better than to quote tribal. Yaya is Barca's player and they dont have to sell him.

There was however a story in the last hour that the Laporta deal with City expired on Monday and therefore the new Pres has to start from scratch, by 'protocol'.

Sounds like utter bollox to me, but the Spanish do love beaurocracy!

And season tickets go on open sale tomorrow, so dont discount another announcement before the morning!

[Beefymcfc]

[Blue Blood]

[DoomMerchant]

[Mark (Blue Army)]

[Ted Hughes]

[Colin the King]

I really hope we don't sign Gerrard. It just has disaster written all over it- the way he performs for England says a lot I think, he's a scouser and that's all that matters to him. If we pay £25million+ I think I'd cry. Sometimes you have to look beyond how good a player is and factor other things, in this case, it's his motivation- I just don't think it'd be there in a blue shirt.

Very positive about Touré if it comes through, always been impressed by his athleticism and ability. We have Ireland, who can attack, and de Jong who can defend, but Touré can do both well, proper box-to-box midfielder.

As for Dzeko, always looked a good player when I've seen him but again, we're setting ourselves up for disaster if we pay anything like £35million and he can't acclimatise.

I'd be inclined not to go overboard with defensive signings, because it's arguably the most important place on the pitch for the players to have a good relationship with one another. If we keep chopping and changing they'll never settle so I reckon we should run with Boateng, Kompany, Lescott and Bridge with Richards, Touré, Zabs and the young lads to fill in when necessary. Maybe a left-back to give Bridge some proper competition but definitely think the centre-half pairing at least needs to stay the same.

[JamieMCFC]

Well Landon Donovan was on Regis and Kelly (an American talk show) today he played soccer with Kelly's son who was wearing a Manchester City shirt. Is that a sign?

Here is the video skip ahead to 7:17.

http://theoffsiderules.blogspot.com/201 ... -pt-3.html

[Blue Blood]

[Ted Hughes]

[DoomMerchant]