I can't see the attraction of moving to Villa to be honest. It's a non-starter given the funds we could break the top four ourselves, Villa haven't got or aren't prepared to deploy the finds at least. If they had the money he may consider it but it's the same big if as Everton, if we had the money he could break into the top four with us.



Haven't heard anything about Yobo, what have you seen?

Currently Jags and Distin are first choice centre backs with Heitinga and Yobo as the cover. Not really in a position to let players leave.

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Konchesky signs for Liverpool, Carlton Cole next?

We can't afford to let anyone go, let alone a centre back. Fingers crossed it doesn't happen.

Just got off the phone with Yobo. He is definitely leaving Everton. Discussions ongoing with West Ham. Other clubs also in the mix

Yobo says a deal will def be done today with a club . He has postponed his trip to join up with Nigeria squad until he signs

If a deal cant be done for Yobo today, he could well be in limbo, as he appears to have burnt his bridges with Moyes.

Those were by Colin Udoh on Twitter.

RyanBabel I'm going no where.

Taken from his twitter.

Its a shame the silence has been so deafening from St James Park today. A couple of new faces would've gave me more optimism than having to go til January with a paper-thin squad. If Carroll gets injured I can't see anywhere in the squad goals are going to come from on a regular basis.

Franco Di Santo any good?

No

Just signed a three year deal with Wigan Athletic according to the radio.

On his way to Turkey for talks with Fenerbahce. Disappointed to be honest, we've got Jags and Distin playing there at the minute, Heitinga as back up after that it'd be Rodwell, even Neville if needed.

Good strikers have a knack of scoring no matter what they do. They miss-hit a shot and it ends up wrong-footing the keeper and going in. They do an air kick with the right leg and the ball hits their left leg and goes in. They sky a cross in the Charity Shield match and it smacks them in the face and goes in.

Di Santo is the absolute opposite of that. He can do everything absolutely perfect and he still won't score.

Put it this way, he could go into a brothel with money overflowing from every pocket, he could be carrying gifts of expensive jewellery and flowers, he'll be clean, well dressed and treat the women with respect and kindness. He still wouldn't score.

I think Blackburn fans appreciated his hard work and good play outside the box, but I figure they have gotten sick of him being an anti-goal machine.

He started of well scoring early in the season but never kicked on after that.It didn't help that we only played 1 up front for most of last season ,if we played 2 up he might have got more games.

Can't believe what Roy has done.

Let go an Argentina international full-back who, imo, has shown decent ability already and has massive potential.
In his place he's signed an average 29-year-old for a substantial fee, and handed him a four-year deal. Oh, and he's also let a promising young player in Laurie Dalla Valle go to rub it in, as well as another.

Madness.

I wasn't best pleased when he let Dalla Velle go. Did Ayala move to Hull?

the reported fee of 3m + 2 youngsters for an average left back. fulham have got the better deal.

cant understand everton letting yobo go - it does seem to leave them with little depth in the centre of defence. it was only the other day moyes was saying he sees rodwell as more of an attacking player for the time being. so that would leave jagielka, distin and heitinga with neville an un-natural choice.


dont think city have done too bad getting 22.5m for robinho considering how unsettled he was, and poor last season. him and ibrahimovic will be able to have a good dummy spitting contest in milan together. interestingly, robinho's first season with city saw him play less league games than in each respective season at madrid, but he scored more goals than in any of those seasons.

Hleb is a decent signing for Brum, I'd have him at Liverpool. Glad Babel is staying though, he has the potential, I rate him alot.

That's my worry about him. Maybe he can create the space for Boselli though

Folk talk of his potential but apart from the odd decent goal, he has been largely $hite for Liverpool since he arrived

Yaya Toure is not playing as a holding midfielder at City.

The aim is to play a 4321 although it is not working at the moment as the only two full-backs we have who can provide the width are Kolarov and Boateng. Both are injured. The formation will also be more effective when Balotelli is fit as Johnson and Milner are not suited to those roles. Johnson will get used to it but Milner ios likely to be part of the midfield 3.

I would think Silva is being gently introduced to English football so he will probably play more minutes against the lesser quality teams. In the game against Spurs he seemed over-awed by teh pace of the game and the congestioon in midfield. He got better as teh game went on. Against Timosuara (sp?) Silva was made to look ordinary because of Adebayor's lack of football intelligence. Silva was constantly looking for the pass but Jo and Adebayor had no idea how to make a run.

There were at least 5 challenges on Barton by a number of players, that deserved yellow cards. A gutless performance by the referee.

As for bad challenges, you obviously missed the last challenge on Barton by Henry.

If any of those five or six challenges had been made against the likes of Torres, Gerrard, Drogba, Fabregas etc., there would have been at least two red cards in that game.

I thought that is why they had signed him tbh, as a holding player. The system on Sat 4231 t me would have been better with Silva as one of the three and probably Yaya alongside Barry.

If they play 4321 I am guessing the three would be Milner, Barry, Toure, with Silva, Ballotelli as the two and Tevez up front although Tevez and Balotelli could interchange I guess.

I agree anyone other than Barton and yellow cards would have been dished out. Henry deserved more than one booking and wa lucky to stay on imo. I don't like Barton but there has to be the same rules for all players.

Silva's a concern for me. I hadnt realised just how slight a figure he is until I saw him in the flesh. He's obviously exceptionally skilfull, I'm just not sure that he's strong enough for the PL and that he might not be another Robinho signing (although without the attitude). On Sunday his introduction turned the game in Sunderland's favour, he lost the ball far too easily.

Early days I know. He'll adjust to the pace of the PL, just not sure about the physicality.

Everything else about City's start to the season has gone as well as could reasonably expected given the changes made, not just to personnel but to the tactics and formations. But Silva's a worry.

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