what happened to stevan jovetic?

We'll start with the 'news' that Saint-Etienne vice-president Dominique Rocheteau has rubbished talks of defender Kurt Zouma joining City or Chelsea in January.

Chris Davie of Goal.com reports: "The French club claim the defender has attracted interest from several top sides but are adamant they have not received any offers for the 19-year-old, who is valued at £16.5m.

"Goal reported in November that City had conducted initial talks over a move for the 19-year-old, while the player’s agent has revealed the central defender would be keen on a switch to Chelsea.

“We talk about him now because he has talent,” Rocheteau told beIN Sport.

“It's true, many clubs are watching, it was the case last season, many foreign clubs came to see [him]. But today, there's no [chance] he leaves in the winter transfer window.

“He will remain with us until the end of the season.”

Elsewhere, Sports Direct News are claiming that Gareth Barry may join Italian side Napoli, when his loan deal with Everton expires at the end of the season.

Gareth Barry

According to Richard Flynn: "The Serie A side’s manager, Rafael Benitez, is a huge fan of the England international and tried to sign him for Liverpool during his Anfield tenure.

"The Spaniard missed out on his signature, with Barry instead leaving Aston Villa for City in 2009.

"He has been one of Everton’s most consistent performers this term following a summer loan switch hastened by the knowledge that he was not part of Blues boss Manuel Pellegrini’s plans at the Etihad Stadium.

"His contract will not be renewed and he looks set to be a free agent in the summer, but Barry is permitted to speak to foreign clubs now with a view to penning a pre-contract ahead of a summer move.

"Benitez’s club spies continue to monitor the player’s progress and an offer is in the pipeline. However, Napoli face stiff competition from Turkish giants Galatasaray, whose boss Roberto Mancini rates Barry highly from their time at City.

"The midfield man was an integral part of the Italian’s side during his spell in charge of the club."

Also in the headlines, Ed Malyon of the Mirror suggests that City and Liverpool have been offered the services of Ajax winger Ricardo Kishna.

Writes Malyon: "The 19-year-old is in the middle of contract negotiations with the Amsterdam club as he looks to extend a deal that runs out at the end of the season.

"But the talented wideman would be available for a minimal compensation package if signed by a Premier League club, and with only a few months remaining on his deal there is no barrier to talks with the likes of the Blues or the Anfield giants."

And finally, Manuel Pellegrini has dismissed reports that City are the favourites to sign Southampton's Luke Shaw - that's according to the Mirror's Alex Richards.

Manuel Pellegrini believes that his side were unfortunate not to register at least a point against Chelsea.

Pellegrini’s side went down to the Chilean’s first home Premier League defeat but the City boss believes that an injury list including Fernandinho, Samir Nasri, Javi Garcia and Sergio Aguero contributed heavily to the narrow loss.

“Well I think that of course Fernandinho is an important player for us,” the 60-year old reflected.

“Not only him, you have to add Aguero, Nasri and Javi Garcia – Milner was not 100% so he couldn’t start, Alvaro Negredo wasn’t 100% either.

“That’s too much of an advantage for an important team like Chelsea.

“We lost today against a good team who played well and I thought we deserved at least a draw but they had the luck to win it.

“They scored a beautiful goal, not an easy goal, he hit it from a long way out with the outside of his foot but before their goal we had clear chances to score, so I don’t there was a problem with the way we played.”

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Pellegrini defended his selection of Martin Demichelis in central midfield under questioning from the assembled journalists in the post-match press conference.

The City boss believes that the Argentine played well but hinted that he had no chance but to field him there – due to the condition of the rest of his squad.

“Jack Rodwell is coming back from injury, Milner’s just worked with us properly for the last day. I think that the only option I had was Demichelis in that position,” Pellegrini explained.



“Fernandinho has a muscle injury, we’ll see tomorrow how long he’ll be out for. I think it’ll be a matter of three or four weeks.

“This game was not a problem of the midfielders. I didn’t make the other two substitutions because I didn’t think we could change the game by doing that.

“For Chelsea it was an essential game. It was important because we could have been six points ahead but we’re just two points behind Arsenal in second.”

revenge is sweet bebeh!!!

Gonna rip United apart on Wednesday

go citi!!

The oft-uttered rhetoric is that the Saturday lunchtime kick-off offers the opportunity to heap pressure on rivals with a win.

However, that’s not how Manuel Pellegrini saw it after watching his side record a  4-1 win over Southampton.

As the title race temperature rises from the simmer to the boil, the City boss stated that Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal all have the same demand - to win every game regardless of results elsewhere.

“The four teams have the same pressure until the end of the season – they all want to win the title,” Manuel argued. “Everyone knows that they must win – whether they know our result or not.

“We just depend on ourselves until the end of the season – it’s important to continue playing the way we did in the second half because I thought it was a great performance.

“We are enjoying a very good second round of fixtures where the results are much better than the first half.

“We’ve had four wins and one draw in our last five games – maybe we had low performances in the month of February but I think that now the team has come back to its best performances.”

A “game of two halves” is one of football’s most well-worn clichés.

There is no better way to describe this latest match, according to the Chilean, who believes there was too much space between his defence, midfield and attack in a first-half which saw the visitors dominate possession.

However, the City boss was pleased with the quality of defending and the way in which his team took control of the match after the break.

“That was a very different game, in the first half and in the second,” he asserted.

“In the first 45 minutes we didn’t play well because there was a great difference between our lines so we didn’t recover the ball against a team playing very well.

“But in our worst moment, we scored three goals and I don’t remember any clear chances for Southampton in the first half.

“I think that we made an important mistake not to have a small space between the lines, you must do that if you want intense pressing.

“Southampton always had time to turn and create danger in our box. We didn’t recover the ball well but we defended very well. Even though they had a lot of the ball they didn’t create chances.

“It was 3-1 at the break which wasn’t the difference between the teams but we played much better in the second half, we recovered the ball well and made a lot of good chances against a very good team.”

One of the major talking points at half-time was City’s second goal.

From replays, it appeared as though David Silva was offside when he received Edin Dzeko’s backheeled flick but the referee decided to allow play to go on and Samir Nasri put his team ahead.

Pellegrini rubbished claims that this decision was pivotal to the destination of three points and emphasised that City deserved their win.

“I don’t think that the second goal changed the game because we scored a few minutes later,” he said.

“I don’t think the difference was just the second goal, we won 4-1.

“If we had only won the game 1-0 maybe you can say it was an important mistake by the referee.”

Pellegrini’s Southampton counterpart Mauricio Pochettino was disappointed with the officiating from Chris Foy and his assistants.

The Argentine boss believes that the penalty awarded to City in the second minute was harsh and he was distraught that the linesman didn’t spot David Silva in an offside position in the build-up to the home side’s second goal.

“The first 45 minutes, we were superior to a team equipped to win the Premier League,” Pochettino declared.

“To beat a team like City, a team full of world class team, you have to have a perfect day and have the refereeing decisions to be fair and they weren’t today.

“I’ve just seen it [the penalty decision] on TV and I don’t think you can give that after two minutes and their second goal was clearly, two metres, offside.

“That’s the kind of game you play at school and when you get a bad call like that it can affect any player and it did today – it affected our players.”

Quiet here eh?

No noise from our noisy neighbours?

Quiet here eh?

No noise from our noisy neighbours?

Can't wait this sunday.
Must see the match or maybe just watch the highlight.

Quiet here eh?

No noise from our noisy neighbours?

KALAHHHHH

Man City BPL Champions 2011/12 mana boleh kalah? 

KALAHHHHH

What now?
Aguero no score last minute goal?
CTID

What now?
Aguero no score last minute goal?
CTID

marilah kita bersama sama berdoa supya liverpool kalah lwn norwich haha

he's done a better job than mancini, i want him to stay for next season

he's done a better job than mancini, i want him to stay for next season

seriously there is mc fan? not from the rich time?

If you've noticed, there are only a handful of City 'fans' who are present here 

so lucky mannone become retards for few seconds... if not we are losing points at home by relegation battler

yeah , this the gif from liverpool thread

Chill bro. We'll help you stay second by beating Chelsea