At the time was really excited at little old city signing him for what was then a massive upgrade on the current world record transfer fee. But part of me was worried we were going to make ourselves looks stupid if it did not work out. With hindsight the latter would have been the consequence so it was a bullet dodged. It was an amazing time to be a city supporter, we were buying players for big money left right and centre and were still to win anything but we were improving and the games were exciting. One amusing part of the whole affair was the fallout after his decision to stay at Milan, rags were laughing that the best player in the world had turned us down! Alan Shearer anyone? Ronaldinho?