Well I have had 24hours to think about it, my first reaction was similar. What I do know is that Sunderland have been sniffing round City for three players Guidetti, Milner and AJ. All mentioned in the press. AJ has also been moaning, as said above, Mancini might just have lost patience, cashes in 10 -12m. We all know Walcott is available at the right price do we go for Sinclair or Walcott. Walcott would cost more but there is still time to do the deal. Thats may be why we have put the Sinclair deal on hold.
Again a bit boring but we only have one space left in the squad, if DDR comes he will get that last space. Thereafter we need to ship one player out to get one in. AJ to Sunderland would allow for that.
I just think that depending on how much the DDR deal costs us will determine whether we get Walcott or Sinclair, but there again with a bit of juggling we might get both.