Wes

We could do with turning our possesion advantage into a scoreline advantage before half time.

Latest rumour is Mancini will be made manager. His odds are down to 1/6 now:

Corriere dello Sport

Translated:

ROME, December 19 - Roberto Mancini will be the next coach of Manchester City. The former coach of Inter has 48 hours in England and is in talks with the leaders of the Citizens. The negotiation is now taking off: completed three years of contract. The announcement of his engagement will be given between tonight and tomorrow, whatever the outcome of the match this afternoon between City and Sunderland. The club of Manchester has now been successfully taken the decision to exempt Mark Hughes. The staff that Mancini will bring in Great Britain there will be as vice Fausto Salsano, former midfielder of Parma, Sampdoria and Roma, and as athletic trainer Andrea Carminati. Both were with the technician Jesi also Inter.

And on Final Score they just said there's word that Roberto Mancini is in one of the boxes at Manchester City today.

Cana sent off

Milner you beauty! What a goal!!!

Friedel is immense.

HESKEY!!!!!

YAY

Hope Cuellar can run that nasty fall off.

An emphatic YES.

Maybe we'll start using the only score from set pieces trick then again or did everyone figure that one out already?

Well you can't stop conceding set pieces. Otherwise no teams playing Stoke would ever give away a throw in.

But what a trick that is...

Of course but eventually people are going to figure out how to stop it. Right?

Yes we miss him. We're a one trick pony without him.

is there anyone decent in the Sheff Utd team?

Phil Jagielka isn't bad

Hehe I sent an e-mail in to the Guardian one about Villa and it just got posted

Looks like the BBC are also getting in amongst the minute-by-minute game. It wont be as humourous as the Guardian one though I'm sure!

BBC Sport Minute-by-Minute Link

YES! The best news of January is here:

The Guardian are doing another minute-by-minute account of deadline day of the trasnfers. I kept refreshing like mad the summer equivalent last year. Best place to go for us without SSN in my opinion! And as anyone who listens to their podcast will know it's rather funny. All kicks off at 9:30am

The Guardian's Minute-by-Minute Link

Craig Bellamy is set to sign if baros leaves !!!!! - Link

Did not see that one coming! Not Bellamy's biggest fan though so wouldn't mind if this didn't happen.

Well to get back on topic, if we did sign the Romanian pair do you think they'll be as bad as tevez and mascherano or will they actually make an impact?

Dont take any notice of bloody videos!

Well I just put it up as some people had no idea who he was! Also here is his profile on FM07 that someone asked for:

Mmmm. 2 in 17, you say? Not prolific at that level, then!

Apparently he plays in midfield for the National Team... trying to find more information about it.

just watcheed the video on you tube looks quite good two footed too how old is he?

He's 27. He plays for the National Team too, scoring 2 in 17 apps.

Welcome to VT Wes.

Thanks!

Hmmm interesting. Now who the heck is he? :?

Since being at Steaua Bucuresti he's scored 42 times in 72 appearances.

First time poster here!

If the long held rumours of Dica comign to Villa are true I'll be pleased. According to his stats he's quite a handy goalscorer plus he's played in Europe Competitions so he has a handy amount of experience to give to our young squad..

Found a video of his goals: