General Twitter Thread

[Chazza]

Nigel Adderley @nadderley
According to Swindon Advertiser, Paulo Di Canio has told them he's considering his position at Swindon Town #stfc @talkSPORTKO

[Gibbo]

@SkyBet: Paul Scholes has been heavily backed in from 7/1 to 7/4 favourite for the Oldham job. That's right, Paul Scholes: http://t.co/SIO4BLY7

[Alex]

What?

[baitman]

hes an oldham lad and an oldham fan i used to work with reckoned scholes always said he would finish his career at oldham. little ginger ****er.

[Shaggy]

David Currie @Davrinho
HAHAHAhAhHhhhhHhAAAAhhahahahahahhahahahaha ARSHAVIN WTF pic.twitter.com/LHOBNCJB

[Muddled]

Oh.
Emm.
Gee.

[Gibbo]

[baitman]

poster boy for gaychat

[Kenneth]

..

[Alex]

Apparently Ashavin has a degree in Fashion design too. Interesting bloke.

[dom9]

He looks cute.

[baitman]

i know its been done to death but it always makes me chuckle...

does he shave his arse

[Fivex]

Wasn't expecting that.

[danperkins]

Arshavin is hilarious. I laughed out loud at the top left picture

[Shaggy]

http://sulia.com/channel/soccer/f/849cc833-a92b-4c69-8344-98eb539fb7fe/?source=twitter

Man City offered Radamel Falcao + Cristiano Ronaldo for summer restructure. #MCFC #RMCF

Manchester City plan to make a marquee summer acquisition to initiate their first full season under the joint stewardship of Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain. The club's recently appointed chief executive officer and director of football regard City's 2013-14 campaign as fundamental to ambitions to establish City as genuine contenders on the Champions League stage.

Alongside a potential change of manager Roberto Mancini – now regarded in football circles as “a dead man walking” - Soriano and Begiristain are working on adding an elite player to City's first team and strengthening it in two further positions. Scouting staff have been instructed to focus on strikers, wingers and central defenders.

Discussions have already taken place about signing Radamel Falcao from Atletico Madrid. The Colombia international has been a prodigious scorer throughout his four seasons in European football, already claiming 22 goals from 21 appearances in the current campaign, which is expected to be his last for the Europa League holders.

City have also been offered the opportunity to bid for Cristiano Ronaldo, who remains discontented with his lot at Real Madrid and may be used to raise transfer revenue this summer instead of being offered an extension to his €10.5million net contract. Charged with doubling City's income to an annual £400m, Soriano is aware of the commercial opportunities offered by Ronaldo. The club's Abu Dhabi owners have made previous attempts to attract the record breaking forward.

The new centre back will be of a lower profile, but come from a group of highly rated defenders in their mid-twenties. City are seeking a technically capable individual capable of playing the ball out from defence and complementing Vincent Kompany's athletic physicality.

Begiristain and Soriano intentionally used the difficult January window to bring in just one new player – 18-year-old Ghanaian Godsway Donyoh. Mario Balotelli was sold to AC Milan without replacement because the summer window offers more opportunity to purchase a striker of the required quality.

Though City will invest heavily in the right headline signing, the basic strategy is to extract better value from the club's £200m-plus wage bill. They intend to sell, loan or terminate the contracts of a large number of players on overly generous terms to concentrate transfer and salary spend on outstanding talent.