Cold hands of new coach Roberto Mancini has managed to bring Manchester City inhabiting four big steps after successfully winning the fight against Blackburn Rovers in a 4-1 landslide score hero Carlos Tevez who contributed three goals.
This is the City of fourth victory in four games since dealt with Mancini. These additional three points to make City surged to a big four sequence positions, the position of the target at the beginning of their minilal this season.
Mancini said the team would not talk too much about the title associated with distance from the head of the league, Chelsea are still relatively far: seven points and four points from Arsenal who are in third position. However, he would dare to speak after two months in advance.
“We’re not going to see the standings for the time being. There are 17 action that must be lived and we will see later on. We’re just going to talk about the standings at one or two months,” he said.
Manchester City have agreed to sign Netherlands midfielder Nigel de Jong from Hamburg SV pending personal terms, the German club said on Monday.
City, who are in talks with AC Milan over a possible world record transfer for Brazilian playmaker Kaka, will pay close to 20 million euro ($26.29 million) for the 24-year-old former Ajax Amsterdam holding midfielder, according to German media.
“We have had contact with Manchester City and have agreed to release the player if he can strike a deal with the English club,” Hamburg spokesman Joern Wolf told Reuters. Read the rest of this entry →
Manchester City blew the January transfer window wide open last night when they launched a world-record bid of €100 million (£91 million) for Kaká, the AC Milan forward.
Officials from the Barclays Premier League club met their counterparts from the Serie A team in Milan yesterday and, according to reports, were armed with a salary offer from Sheikh Mansour, their billionaire owner from Abu Dhabi, that would result in the 2007 Fifa World Player of the Year earning £13.6 million a year after tax. Read the rest of this entry →
This is the City of fourth victory in four games since dealt with Mancini. These additional three points to make City surged to a big four sequence positions, the position of the target at the beginning of their minilal this season.