The transfer rumour to boil your blood!

[Im_Spartacus]

I think the names we are being linked with on a short term basis suggest that Mancini's position is definately up for review is only in the summer.

I wouldn't be so sure of that. If he fails to achieve CL and doesn't win a cup, then yes, and we will probably get Mourinho. But if he achieves CL and/or wins a cup, then I think he'll get another season. Fact is, he can't risk buying players he doesn't know or who he fears might not adapt to the Prem.

So to ensure CL qualification, he gets on the phone to his pal Veron, possibly the worst ever premier league import?

I dont buy that its about players he knows, its about good players who are available on short term deals who can potentially plug a gap until the end of the season. Where I think a Veron deal falls down is that Veron would want to play every week, and there is no way Mancini can offer him that given Veron's previous track record in the prem.

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

"It's not a fact of money. First of all is the family, an second, I have made a decision and I want to respect it, that is what I feel and Estudiantes is the place where I feel comfortable," said Veron.

"If I would have accepted this offer I wouldn't have been true with my convictions, with myself and with the people."

Veron's agent Miguel Pires gave the detail of City's offer.

"Veron said to me that he received a phone call from Mancini and that he had offered him £7million and the same to Estudiantes for a one-year contract.

"In addition, that amount would have got duplicated if he would have continued at Manchester City during 2011."

I am now starting to worry about who we are linked with. Serie-A players do not tend to do well in our league with the odd exception to that rule of course. A proven Premiership failure in Veron is bad enough but the fees involved are stupid.

I wouldn't believe most of these 'links', probably with players/agents wanting a pay rise/new deal, which I suspect is the case with Veron.

I have seen 2 headlines this week 'City miss out on so-and-so'. But when you read the story the agent says 'we have had no contact from Manchester City'.

Mostly the usual bollox.

Of course it's bollocks.

So far we've been linked to pretty much every player who played for Mancini in Inter. Veron was on loan there and Mancini used his sparingly usually off the bench or gave him 60 mins or something. I seriously doubt he has been offered anything despite apparently being in sparkling form in Argentina. Anyway, the whole 7m+7m thing approved my suspicions.