Manchester City Look To Wrap Up Mangala Signing - Why Manuel Pellegrini Must Go About His Transfer Business Carefully

Manchester City are believed to be in advanced talks to sign Eliaquim Mangala from Porto. The fee is in the region of £32million, according to BBC Sport.

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10 defenders Arsenal should look to sign to solidify their title challenge

Arsenal are a team who have literally taken the Premier League and Champions League by the scruff of the neck and shown the media what they can do and that they won't be going anywhere in a hurry.

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The England Right-Back Crisis

This a massively personal opinion, but I genuinely believe we, as a footballing nation, have a problem on the right side of our defence.

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Top 3 Unsung heroes: defenders who’ve made the difference for their clubs

Branislav Ivanovic

His header right at the death helped Chelsea to their second consecutive European trophy. The honour of Chelsea’s Player of the Year may have gone to Juan Mata but there is no doubt as to how pivotal Ivanovic’s contributions have been to the West London club.

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Mario Balotelli happy to be home

He was regularly in the media whilst at Manchester City and more often than not it was for all the wrong reasons. From setting off fireworks in his bathroom to giving out money whilst dressed as Santa, separating the fact from the fiction was almost impossible and there was too little talk about his ability whilst on the pitch. Mario Balotelli had a difficult time in England but now appears to be much happier now that he has moved back home to Italy.

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Goodbye Mario, thanks for the memories

‘Super Mario’ or ‘Mad Mario’ is a question I have seen posed to an awful lot of people in the media since news of Mario Balotelli’s transfer to AC Milan broke.  For me, he is an enigma whose departure will make the Premier League a far less entertaining place.

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Can Joleon Lescott find a way back in?

Just what has Joleon Lescott done to upset Roberto Mancini?  The England international centre half has not featured for Manchester City in over a month and has not started a league game since 20^th October.

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Where would Manchester City be without Sheikh Mansour’s riches?

Money makes the world go round and that certainly is the case with modern day football.

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The tube has came to a Holt

Roy Hodgson wasn’t exactly first choice elect for the England job when he was appointed earlier on this year before the Euros. Everyone wanted cheeky chappy Harry Redknapp, an Englishman who would hopefully lead his country to a tournament victory like Sir Alf Ramsey did all those years ago.

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Time for Richards to prove himself

One man who can empathise with David Beckham’s surprising omission from the Team GB Olympic football squad which came in a display of sensible footballing logic by coach Stuart Pearce, is Micah Richards, who has seen his name inconspicuous by its absence from national selection too many times to count. He is however, included in the void vacated by the Beckham fanfare for this August’s unique jolly in London, partnered with a chance to finally remove the everlasting stigma that has annulled his natural progression into regular international footballer.

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When will Richards get the call?

Does not starting in your club's last five games of the season mean you can’t represent your country.

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Changes needed to the England squad

So the long awaited announcement was made on Wednesday as Roy Hodgson named his first England squad ahead of the European Championships.

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