The last day oif Spetember brought another beautiful warm, sunny day.
There were 21 players on show, no Hargreaves but NDJ and AJ were fully involved, AJ sporting the newest style of his boot sponsor a very bright green pair of Mercurials.
As per the normal, there was the warm ups followed by the ball work.
It was a subdued atmosphere to start with, the players split up into 2's or 3's talking bewtween themselves, the Boss emerged from his press conference and then the players got together in a cirlce surrounding Mancini, they were all listening to what he had to say, then off they go into groups and ballwork.
Kolo Toure has a seperate word with the boss which ended in a pat on the back for Toure and a smile from Bobby.
I nipped over to have a look at the keepers and they were doing their usual drills.
Bobby then took away the 11 which we thought might be starting tomorrow, a decent team with around 5 changes from Munich, you can't be too sure with Mancini and his team selections but the full backs will change and the back 2 back to normal, there are also some changes in midfield and striking too.
I got back to my tree stump and the mood seemed lighter, it always is when NDJ is around, very noisy and jovial.
They finished with another short sided game, about 10-a side which Yaya missed, Nasri was involved although he did seem to have a little fitness test before it all started.
Kolarov, NDJ, Ballotelli and Milner stayed behind to practice free kicks. Nige was the first to score!
The mood got better throughout the day, plenty of Paps clicking away trying for the one picture, but to no avail, all good humoured today chaps.
NMT
