James Milner to Man City

[Bender]

Done deal £26million and stephen ireland just coming through on sky news......Milner having his medical

[Tee]

Great bit of business for Villa IMO.

[Craig_H]

Great bit of business for Villa IMO.

Yep, Ireland's a good player and they can get 3 or 4 other very good players, with that kind of money.

[Alex]

Great business, City brought a player that, while showing ability has never been tested on the highest level.

Think he will fade into the background ala Barry

[red g]

****ing hell !!!!!!!


what a ridiculous signing. Wherre will he play do you reckon? I presume centre mid, rotating his player partner with the 34 defensive midfielders they have got?

[SK]

35 players + Milner = 36

8 players (in red) that probably wont make the cut to the 25 man squad so that leaves 3 more to be taken out, who?

No. Position Player


1 GK Shay Given
2 DF Micah Richards
3 DF Wayne Bridge
4 DF Vincent Kompany
5 DF Pablo Zabaleta
6 MF Michael Johnson
8 MF Shaun Wright-Phillips
9 FW Emmanuel Adebayor
10 FW Robinho
11 MF Adam Johnson
12 GK Stuart Taylor
13 DF Aleksandar Kolarov
14 FW Roque Santa Cruz
17 DF Jérôme Boateng
18 MF Gareth Barry
19 DF Joleon Lescott
20 FW Felipe Caicedo
21 MF David Silva
22 DF Greg Cunningham
24 MF Patrick Vieira
25 GK Joe Hart
26 GK David González
27 FW Jô
28 DF Kolo Touré (vice-captain)
29 MF Kelvin Etuhu
30 DF Shaleum Logan
32 FW Carlos Tévez (captain)
34 MF Nigel de Jong
36 DF Javan Vidal
38 DF Dedryck Boyata
40 MF Vladimír Weiss
42 MF Yaya Touré
43 FW Alex Nimely
45 FW Mario Balotelli
50 MF Abdisalam Ibrahim

[Gaz]

There's no way Mancini will be able to keep all his best players happy unless he rotates his starting 11 a lot, there'll be a mass exodus at City in the summer with players who aren't happy sitting on the bench

[Bender]

New manager next season for sure

[Vermilion]

26 mill and SI eh, what does that make the total cost..well over 30mill anyway..

[Bender]

26 mill and SI eh, what does that make the total cost..well over 30mill anyway..

at least £35million

[Exiled_red]

26 mill and SI eh, what does that make the total cost..well over 30mill anyway..

I guess you'd value Ireland at at least £9m, which takes it to over £35m

[red g]

I guess you'd value Ireland at at least £9m, which takes it to over £35m

Ireland was player of season year before for City and he is a year younger.

Not sure how you can Value one at £35million and one at £9million, its crazy!!!!!!!

I would value Ireland at more, which pushes milner upto around £40million

Lunacy

[Fivex]

Nah lads the deal is 'worth' £26m, so take the Ireland value off that figure, surely?

[JohnDoe]

Ireland > Milner

[Rich]

I'd read it as the total value of the deal being £26m.