Clearly this is extremely fluid between now and the end of the summer transfer window with players moving in both directions, but following the confirmation of Yaya Toure’s move, here’s the current list of first team midfielders at Man City for next season:-
Michael Johnson
Stephen Ireland
Shaun Wright-Phillips
Adam Johnson
Gareth Barry
Patrick Veira
Nigel De Jong
Yaya Toure
David Silva
I suppose from our perspective, and, I suspect, a lot of teams, that’s a pretty intimidating array of talent. I can’t help wondering whether that’s something James
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Let’s be honest here, two goals over three games in a group The Sun christened “EASY” (England, Algeria, Slovenia, Yanks) won’t be causing any of the other nations to shake in their boots, but we’re though and that’s all that counts.
James Milner was given the nod to start on the right against Slovenia for the final group game with England requiring a win to ensure progression. Fortunately his confidence didn’t seem dented following his horror show against USA in
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Unless England and the United States both exit the group and negotiate their way past all opponents, all the way to the final, this was the one game of the World Cup to bring all 4 Villans in South Africa into the same stadium at the same time. Based on what we saw tonight, I would say the chances of a rematch occurring are slim to none.
Warnock and Guzan watched from their respective benches and while no one
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Another of these videos has mysteriously leaked from the training ground. This time it’s James Milner kicking balls into wheelie bins by deflecting them off the crossbar. This also proves that Milner will remain an Aston Villa player since it’s a well known fact that they don’t have wheelie bins in Manchester, so why would he want to go there?
Did you spot the glimpse of Ash at the beginning? I assume that the next video will be
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James Milner, Emile Heskey, Stephen Warnock and Brad Guzan will all be in South Africa this summer and now join a list of 19 who were Aston Villa players when they represented their countries in the previous World Cups.
Unfortunately, it was bad news for Shane Lowry when Australia finally announced their 23 man squad, but he was one of the youngest in the provisional squad and will have plenty of opportunities in the future.
With 4 players at
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I was pleased to see James Milner’s name in the starting XI an hour or so before kick off last night and, since he made up a midfield quartet with Theo Walcott, Michael Carrick and Steven Gerrard, I assumed he’d be playing on the left. Not so. At kick off we found that Capello was playing Gerrard on the left and Milner in the middle. I’m guessing he just wanted to see Milner in a central role
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It’s been reasonably well reported that Paul Faulkner, and presumably Martin O’Neill, possibly Randy Lerner, will sit down with James Milner after England’s friendlies against Mexico and Japan this month to seek a verbal agreement from James that he will commit to a new contract on his return from the World Cup. The details of that contract will obviously be influenced by what happens in South Africa, but the management team will be looking to sell their vision for
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Let’s not be naive here. There are rules against tapping up and, with one or two exceptions, they’re generally observed (within reason), but that doesn’t mean that words aren’t said, glances exchanged and knowing nods made before a club puts in an official bid for a player. In fact, it’s highly unusual for a club to feed the paper into the fax machine and dial the number without feeling reasonably confident that it will be well received at
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I’ll just leave this here…
Rejected.
Oh, while I think about it…. Gareth Barry… £12m? I guess this confirms what we already knew… he’s just a poor man’s James Milner!