Mancini eyes up World Cup winner

It always seemed likely that Roberto Mancini was not best pleased with the signings of Javi Garcia and Jack Rodwell to bolster his central midfield, so the Mirror's report that Manchester City are interested in bringing Spanish World Cup winner Sergio Busquets to the Etihad does not really come as a massive surprise.

Busquets would certainly not cheap and why on earth would someone want to leave sunny Barcelona and the glory of the Nou Camp for dreary Manchester and dealing with Mario Balotelli day in day out?

There's no doubt that Busquets would revolutionalise City however. After all, this is the man who Pep Guardiola deemed was good enough to allow Yaya Toure to depart Barca...and look how important Toure is at the Etihad!

Adam Mazrani