City New Boy Adebayor

Manchester City  confirmed on tuesday that they have signed Kolo Toure from Arsenal to add to the high profile superstars they have signed already. For around a year now, nobody has really taken the Citizens seriously however now you get the feeling teams will now have to, especially the likes of Arsenal as they have not really improved their team from last season and have a few bad injuries. Manchester City have spent over 100 Million but have signed some very good players. They already had stars such as Shay Given, Stephen Ireland, Vincent Kompany, Nigel De Jong, Martin Petrov and Robinho. Now they have added to that with the fire power of Adebayor, Tevez and Santa Cruz and sured up the midfield with Gareth Barry. Kolo Toure will be a good start to build the defence around so if they can sign another class centre half and maybe a full back, they could be looking good for the top 4 should Mark Hughes be able to gel the team together. The title will prob be too much of a long shot this season, however Manchester United do not look as strong, neither do Liverpool should they loose Alonso. Chelsea look to be favourites for the title but we shall have to see what the season brings

Wigan Athletics Antonio Valencia is constantly being linked with Manchester United and has even been linked with Real Madrid over the last 6 months. What i cannot understand about this is quite why? Should he make to move and be a huge success then fair enough, i will eat my words. I do not beleive this is a 20 million pound player and certainly not one that will improve Manchester Uniteds first team. A deal involving Nani has even been mentioned? Surely not, Nani looks to be just as good a player as Valencia and United have already invested in him? Valencia is a class act but it takes something special to get into a Manchester United team and im not so sure he has that, can he win game? will he get goals? I dont think he will, no more so than Nani if he was given the same opportunities or even the hard working Darren Fletcher and Park Ji Sung.

So Gareth Barry has completed an unexpected move to Manchester City early into the summer. Is it a good move for him? Who knows, I think it is for city. Or at least Mark Hughes. For the sum of 12 million he has signed a hardworking and professional player which is something any manager would want on his side, especially when things are turbulant as they often have been at Eastlands this season.
It is expected that Barry will slot into central midfield which is a position he has now made his own and even broken into the England team on a regular basis there. Im not sure how this will affect Kompany or De Jong, who have both been used in the holding role, often at the same time. Im sure Hughes wont worry about that though, now Barry has moved, especially this early into the summer it may open the door for other big names as more players consider the Citizens as a club that will challenge the top 4 next season.
Barry will be first on the team sheet every week and may even be in line for captency somewhere down the line. This should help him cement his place in the national team ahead of the world cup next summer. With Villa’s demise towards the end of the season maybe Barry felt the time was right to move on. Would Liverpool or Arsenal not have been a better option though? Im sure Benitez and Wenger will be wishing they had parted with the 12 million and landed Barry and surely he would rather play champions League football and challenge for the Premier League title?