This will surely be concluded over the weekend. I imagine the fee will be £25million (around 30million euro's) with add on's. This guy is 6'3 so i would honestly bet against us getting Torres/Ibra or Dzeko now. He look's like a new Drogba and at only 19 i think this is a great buy. People have mentioned his attitude but so what? Bellamy, Petrov and Robinho all had/have massive ego's and attitude problems but Robinho aside we have handled them pretty well. As long as he has talent and desire to go with his ego, i'm happy.
In's:
Kolarov £17million
Boetang £11million
Y.Toure £24million
Silva £26million
Balotelli £25million
Total outlay: £103million
Out's:
Petrov (free)
Slvinho
Benjani (both released)
Paul Marshall (free to walsall)
Bojinov £5million to Parma
Robert Mak Undisclosed to Nuremburg
David Ball (loaned out to swindon)
Possible out's (IMO):
Robinho £20million
RSC £6million
Bellamy £5million
Onouha £7million
edit:
Caceido £3million
Jo £5million
This is honestly more than i expected at the start of the window and we have brought in some quality players. I very much doubt we will get a "WOW" player as some ITK's claim because let's face it we have a very, very strong squad which will hopefully win a cup this season and challenge for the league title. Apparently we are still looking at Arteta/Milner aswell which would be a cherry on the cake as long as we dont get ripped off.
Keeping in mind Mancini's quotes about squad rotation and that we could play around 60 games+ if we advance far in all 3 cup competitions i think it is safe to say we will be looking at something like this team sheet in the league:
--------------------------------GIVEN--------------------------------
-----BOETANG-----K.TOURE----------LESCOTT-----KOLAROV-----
------------------Y.TOURE---DE-JONG---BARRY--------------------
---------------------------------SILVA--------------------------------
--------------------------TEVEZ-------BALOTELLI-------------------
And possibly this in the Europa league/F.A Cup/Carling Cup:
--------------------------------HART--------------------------------
-----RICHARDS-----KOMPANY---------BOYATA-----BRIDGE-----
------JOHNSON-----------VIERA---IBRAHIM-----------S.W.P-----
------------------------------IRELAND------------------------------
----------------------------ADEBAYOUR----------------------------
...I'm not sure what provoked me into making this epic post, all i know is that i have :) :P
CTID x