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only shave heads, no other places

New rules force Man City to sell 12 players

By Soccernet staff

July 25, 2010

Manchester City will have to offload around 12 players before the transfer window closes at the end of next month - otherwise they will be left with players they are unable to play.

New Premier League rules state that a club must submit a squad of 25 players on September 1, and only those players will be eligible to be named in a matchday squad. Clubs can supplement that list with an unlimited number of players aged 21 or under, but in Manchester City's case they are currently well over the 25-man limit.

Players such as Roque Santa Cruz, Craig Bellamy, Jo, Felipe Caicedo, Micah Richards, Michael Johnson, Vincent Kompany, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Stephen Ireland, Nigel De Jong, Kelvin Etuhu, Pablo Zabaleta and Nedum Onuoha could find themselves out in the cold if they are still at Eastlands when the transfer window closes. Robinho is also officially still a City player.

And City could be forced to accept reduced fees for these players as rival clubs look to take advantage of their situation.

Manager Roberto Mancini said: "I know that we must sell some players because in 20 days [sic] we must have a list with 25 players. I am disappointed because some players must change teams now. It is difficult for them to play for us. When you play in four competitions you must have a large squad because if not you have difficulties. For this it's important we have 25 players."

Unable to be registered for Premier League action, any player omitted from the 25-man squad will be forced to either go out on loan to a Football League club or spend four months kicking their heels until the winter transfer window.

And with City hoping to add James Milner to their ranks in the coming weeks they will have to offload yet another player to make way for the Aston Villa man in their team list.

Eight of the 25-man squad must be 'home grown', meaning they played in England or Wales for three seasons before their 21st birthday. City have no problem fulfilling that requirement.

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Selling 12 players in 20 days!!! Wah..

common liverpool... u can do it..
just forget the past friendly match..
RH is the MAN..

lots of quality players there...amongst the 3 strikers i take bellamy!

Ireland la....bellamy was a flop with us

"Players such as Roque Santa Cruz, Craig Bellamy, Jo, Felipe Caicedo, Micah Richards, Michael Johnson, Vincent Kompany, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Stephen Ireland, Nigel De Jong, Kelvin Etuhu, Pablo Zabaleta and Nedum Onuoha could find themselves out in the cold if they are still at Eastlands when the transfer window closes. Robinho is also officially still a City player..."

well, i would take Santa, Micah, Johnson, Ireland, SWP... but i do believe we have enough power for this season, just to sharpen them week in week out and to focus to what is more important, which is the EPL. i say NO to Carling Cup, FA Cup, Europa League. get the record str8.. the 19th title.. m.u is catching up...

in RH we believe..

This post has been edited by account_manager: Jul 26 2010, 09:49 AM

I think Manchester United also facing the same issue with their 2nd team?

Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea, Blackburn all lost their season friendlies as well, with their reserve/youth players...so there's nothing scary about us losing as well.

I admire the confidence. Top 4 a certainty? I'm not so sure. Even though we've signed Cole and are looking at adding a few more quality players like Huntelaar to the side, you have to consider that our opposition is also bolstering their squads. We are some ways behind the likes of Man Utd, Chelsea and Arsenal in terms of consistency, mainly because we're going to be playing a different style of football yet again. They don't need as many reinforcements as we do because whoever comes in, merely has to adapt to their respective systems to look twice the players they actually are. Spurs and Man City in particular are also preparing for another assault on the Premiership and let's not forget we finished a miserable 7th having won only 5 away games the whole of last season. Roy Hodgson only won 1 with Fulham in the same season. Our away form was a problem and if past results are anything to go by, Hodgson doesn't seem to be the answer. Realistically, I'm aiming for a top 6 finish. The teams that were previously some distance away from us are catching up with us faster than we are catching up with the top 3, if they haven't already caught up that is.

we have additional threats this season with Man City spending loads of money

well, now they have 2 sell some players and clear "dead" wood

ireland is not striker laa..his position were well covered at liv

get onuoha as right back ma...johnson quite injury prone.

m.city got new left back, we can try get bridge with reasonable price

Quoted...Wil add to 1st page later...

torres future is worrying

haha

buy other players but 1 main player ciao, i think we can look at top 12

yup..onouha quite good..english,strong,good defensively..i bet he'll struggle to get a game with all this big buying spree from mancini

I'd be happy to snap Onuoha or Zabaleta as cover for RB in case Johnson is injured.

As much as I hate De Jong for kung fu-ing Alonso, I'd hope we can get him for cheap as cover for Masch in case he leaves. And at least he did admit to the press that he was sorry for the kungfu kick and admit he should get a red card, and was lucky to just get a yellow.

Forlan in, Torres out at Anfield?

With Fernando Torres looking increasingly likely to leave Anfield, manager Roy Hodgson is looking at replacements for the Spaniard.

According to The People, Liverpool's management have been in contact with Atletico Madrid officials recently to check on the availability of Diego Forlan, and were quoted £15 million for the former Manchester United man.

Forlan recently stated publicly that he'd be happy to remain with the Colchoneros heading into the future, but later followed up by stating that he could be tempted away from the Vicente Calderon by a "good offer" from abroad.

Hodgson will make an bid for Forlan if Torres departs and Hodgson isn't too optimistic on his chances of keeping the World Cup 2010 winner following recent discussions with the forward.

Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini had already announced that his club would be willing to pay £70 million if the striker was willing to leave Anfield.

what? torres out and forlan in? lolz.. one more uncle? haha