Lescott off to City...to be replaced by....

[Baracus]

If/when a new manager comes in at city. A whole raft of new players will join on big contracts for many years. As they are simply not world-class signings. New Managers, new ideas.

Correct me if I am wrong, but all the new signings have signed for 5 years on big money.

They'll all stick around imo regardless of if they play or not if/when a new manager comes in.

Not that the owners would care. That's when we'll all be saying again, that has become of football.

[The_weatherman]

They've bought as well as they probably can, given that they're a nobody in world footballing terms. As AA says, they were never going to get the best of the best.

I think they have made solid buys.

Tevez, Robinho, Adebayor, De Jong, Barry, Lescott, Santa Cruz, Bridge, Kompany, Toure would all find a place in our squad and some of them would go into our first XI. They might trump us this season with a bit of luck.