Re: Gai Assulin
Morning Blues,
Just having a look around the morning papers and came across this in the people online.
"MANCHESTER CITY will take a look at former Barcelona starlet Gai Assulin this week in one of their surprise transfer swoops of the summer.
The Israeli teenager – who is in the same mould as Argentine magician Lionel Messi – quit the Nou Camp last month because he was struggling to get a game.
City have invited Assulin, 19, and his French agent to Eastlands for talks and hope to sign the youngster if he has fully recovered from a knee injury that slowed down his promising career.
The attacking midfielder forced his way into the Barca side at 16, before missing a whole year with a knee ligament problem.
But he has been left frustrated in the Catalan club's reserves, despite being fit for the past season.
Gifted Assulin was recently a target for Blackburn Rovers, but failed to show up for a training spell at Ewood Park as he wants to sign for a bigger club.
City have a massive squad and are looking to shed many of their senior pros, yet they are also still hunting for the next generation of stars.
Assulin has already been capped by Israel, but does not need a work permit as he has a Spanish passport after spending so long living in his adopted country".