If it's true then i'd be happy with those signings.

I think all could happen as well.

Lukaku looks ever more likely,and i think Van Der Wiel has probably been done for quite a while,and for 9M that would be a steel in my opinion.

Still think there's a lot to come from him though.

A manager might help with that

Not looking good for Mancini apparantly...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3599040/Roberto-Mancini-has-flown-to-Abu-Dhabi-to-speak-to-chairman-Khaldoon-Al-Mubarak-amid-a-breakdown-in-relations-at-Manchester-City.html

Carlo returns

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Yeah i doubt we would go over Torres's wages.

But having said that, Aguero wasn't in the list of the 5 players in those two papers.

What's Messi on?

Think Messi is on about 190? No idea, rough guess.

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Apparantly he makes about 28M a year so...

Crazy.
House prices for wages.

Anyway, come on Roman, get the wallet out

Could be Van Basten.

He put a lot of faith and confidence in the young players for the Holland national team.

But i think they'll be playing these players quite regularly to get there full potential going.

A bit like Fabregas at Arsenal etc, playing from a young age even though he was one for the future.

Roman obviously didn't trust Carlo with youth

I think that was probably another one of his downside.

While obviously you want to play your strongest team possible, i still think McEachran could have had a few more games.

Well if it makes anyone feel a bit more confident. I was told about Zhirkov training with Kazan before there were any rumours.

It's now on quite a few websites.

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Pavlyuchenko & Bilyaletdinov have returned to there formers clubs in Russia to train, and it was expected that Zhirkov would return to CSKA but has gone to Rubin Kazan instead.

Apparantly it was organized by the coaching staff and management of the Russian national team.

Wonder if there's more to it?

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I think McEachran will play a much bigger role next season. But i think the likes of Van Aanholt and Lalkovic may get a few chances as well.

Like i said, if it is Van Basten then i think he would work well with the youth. Obviously we wanted to lower the average age of the squad, but it could be why we are going after players who are pretty much no older than 24.

Midfield next year -
Lampard, Essien, Mikel, Josh, Yossi
Won't win the league with that.
Plus ACON again

Ironicly as we are talking about it, iv'e been told that an English club has bid for De Bruyne.

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I can't see the youth getting a chance next season because whatever manager we get will not want to take risks.

If we sign those players, i'd probably say our starting line up 9/10 would be.

Cech
VDW - Luiz - Terry - Cole
Ramires - Mikel
De Bruyne - Neymar - Sturridge
Torres

I can't see the youth getting a chance next season because whatever manager we get will not want to take risks.
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I wouldn't believe that. Everyone was shocked when Van Basten got rid of the "old gaurd" for Holland, and put in 5-6 youngsters in there place as regular starters.

New manager might be under orders to use the youth more, i think Carlo probably was, but as the season was going against it, decided against it.

If we had no plans on youth, we wouldn't sign young players.