It’s boarding passes and passports at the ready as dapper City gaffer Roberto Mancini prepares to offload any players not up for the fight at Manchester City…
Shay Given, Emmanuel Adebayor and Robinho have already publicly white flagged it and regard themselves above fighting for a first team place at resurgent City.
All three could be up the road by Tuesday’s transfer deadline in sync with Mancio’s clear policy of shipping out any potential bad eggs. Given is being stalked by Mark Hughes at Fulham while Adebayor and Robinho will go to the highest bidders.
Roque Santa Cruz, as reported here earlier could take the total departures from SportCity this summer towards the 20 mark.
In other news, the big Ecuadorian junior striker Felipe Caicedo’s loan move to West Ham fell through last week and like the young Brazilian Jo, who was poor against Timisoara last week might yet find himself on board for City’s quest for glory this season.
MCFC Transfer Window Latest:
IN THE CITY:
Mario Balotelli
Jerome Boateng
Alex Henshall
Aleksandar Kolarov
James Milner
Yaya Toure
David Silva
TAXI’S FOR:
David Ball (loan)
Craig Bellamy (loan)
Valeri Bojinov
Javier Garrido
Stephen Ireland
Robert Mak
Paul Marshall
Ryan McGivern (loan)
Benjani Mwaruwari
Nedum Onuoha (loan)
Martin Petrov
Sylvinho
Vladimir Weiss (loan)
More on the City squad’s final construction on VMC as we get it… 