Sky have suspended betting on Given to join Villa. £5m is a bit to pay for 35 year old shot-stopper. Would rather have someone who commands his area much better than Given can.

Ethrington, Milner, N'Zogbia and Caneles (loan) being other links for us.

Milner? Hmh, how do you rate him nowdays?

I still rate him. He'll be evn more determined if he were to come back to force his way back into the England first XI. He's never going to start regularly sitting on the City bench.

Given is a magnificent goalie, despite supporting Celtic. He'd be a brilliant signing for you.

I used to rate him back when he was a magpie .. Now i see many flaws in his game. Yet experience beats youth in my books (IMG:style_emoticons/default/king.gif)

I'd rather have a decent shot stopper to be fair. He's only a couple of inches off Buffon and might be around the same height as Friedel. He's deceivingly not small. Look at Iker, not even 6ft. Unless you mean in terms of voice, and from what he used to show at Newcastle at times I'm sure he can do that.

Someone younger? Perhaps, for that valuation anyway.

Since Arsenal Last Won a Trophy (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

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Speaking of Arsenal, apparently they're selling both Clichy and Nasri to Man City.

United are battling for Nasri too, all of a sudden United look like a big spending power again. Remember the debt is with the Glaziers folks before that gets used.

I mean coming for crosses and stuff. As I said to you before, he reminds me of a poor mans Bosnich. Bozzie woulc come for everything if there was the slightest possibility he would get there and was a great shot-stopper too. Given doesn't do it and it puts alot more pressure on your defenders. I don't think you can really go wrong for £5m I suppose, it's just that he's 35 which isn't young, even for a keeper.

Some other crazy links for us today: Diego (Wolfsburg). Papers are funny.


Selling Nasri would be a mistake, but Clichy is an awful defender and has been for a while now. I suppose they're just cashing in him on and City are the only team stupid enough to pay alot.

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And they sold Craig Gardner to Sunderland. No doubt Gardner will come out saying he's a lifelong Sunderland fan in his interview.

Kits look cheap and imitationy of Us and Inter Milan (or Atalanta if you wish)

Carson Yeung on trial

Birmingham in the **** even more than I could ever have hoped. Their financial situation was awful at best anyway. They've already sold one of their top players at a cut price. Hopefully teams start to low-ball them for the likes of Dann and Foster knowing the trouble they're in.

Holy shh. they have fallen almightily fast
I remember i think they were on some undefeated streak or something and near at the point of being ahead of villa and such. now its all collapsed for them. Should raid em hard

Well Torquay have decided to get rid of everyone good, and to top it off today Zebroski left. I'm actually tempted to bet on us going down now, but that's kinda wrong isn't it?