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El cierre de registros es el 31 de Agosto, la temporada inicia el 13 de Agosto, ya cuando estamos a solo 9 dias de iniciar,via el show de la premier league nos enteramos de los movimientos, estos son:

ARSENAL
Altas: Gervinho (Lille), Jon Toral, Hector Bellerin (Barcelona), Carl Jenkinson (Charlton)
Bajas: Gael Clichy (Manchester City), Denilson (Sao Paulo), Mark Randall (Chesterfield), Roarie Deacon (Sunderland), Thomas Cruise y James Shea

ASTON VILLA
Altas: Shay Given (Manchester City) y Charles N'Zogbia (Wigan)
Bajas: Ashley Young (Manchester United), Stewart Downing (Liverpool), Nigel Reo-Coker, John Carew, Moustapha Salifou, Robert Pires, Isaiah Osbourne, Harry Forrester, Arsenio Halfhuid, Durrell Berry, Ellis Deeney, Calum Flanagan (all released), Brad Friedel (Tottenham).

Landycakes at Eastlands? Nahgannahappen.

Which player is not linked with City nowadays? Every hour it is a different one. Torres, Drogba, Balotelli, and now Landon Donovan.

Look at this part:

Asked whether Donovan would be arriving at Eastlands this summer, Mancini told Sky Sports News while on the club's pre-season tour in the New York: ''We will have to see.

According to the Daily Mail, Sunderland made a £1.5million bid for Manchester City striker Benjani Mwaruwari.

Gianfranco Zola believes that he has gained several years' worth of experience managing West Ham United, although he has been in the post only since September 2008. Within days of taking charge, West Ham's owner, Björgólfur Gudmundsson, suffered the financial problems that led to his bankruptcy and the eventual sale of half the club last week.

UPDATE: According to Paul Smith at MirrorFootball, Manchester City made a bid of £5million and striker Benjani Mwaruwari for West Ham United midfielder Valon Behrami that was turned down.

January 15th, 2010 According to Ken Dyer at the London Evening Standard, West Ham United will not be selling midfielder Valon Behrami.

According to Chris Bailey at Manchester City's official website, Manchester City striker Benjani Mwaruwari wants to sign a new deal at the club as he is very happy there. He said,

"I'm very happy because I've started two games in a row and it's been a long time since that happened.

The king of the Coppa Italia, Roberto Mancini took his first step towards success in the English equivalent when his Manchester City side won 1-0 at Middlesbrough in the FA Cup third round.

Mancini won the Italian Cup six times as a player and four as a coach and, having overseen two league victories since replacing Mark Hughes at City, watched his new team advance comfortably with a late first-half goal by striker Benjani Mwaruwari against the second division hosts.

Skysports.com understands Bolton are lining up a January raid on Manchester City for striker Benjani Mwaruwari.

Bolton are desperate to add to their attacking options when the transfer window reopens in the New Year and have earmarked Benjani as the player to fire them to safety.

Com a ânsia de conquistar títulos, o sheik Khaldoon Al Mubarak, presidente do Manchester City não olha a meios para reforçar o plantel às ordens de Mark Hughes. Após ter assegurado o concurso de Roque Santa Cruz e de Carlos Tévez, Emmanuel Adebayor é o senhor que se segue por cerca de 29 milhões de euros.

According to Chris Flanagan at the Lancashire Telegraph, Blackburn are checking to see if Manchester City striker Benjani Mwaruwari is available.

It is also reported that Blackburn plan on extending the trial for striker Christian Vieri.

I say "Forward, my friends! Forward!"
With the news today that Manchester City have signed star Paraguayan striker Roque Santa Cruz for 30M, I started thinking about the wealth of attacking options at the club.
The club literally has ten (yes, ten!) strikers on the first team. In a traditional 4-4-2 lineup, that would leave eight awfully unhappy men sitting on the bench.

The Zimbabwe international was sold to City during the 2008 January transfer window for a figure quoted as £9 million, with £4 million of that to be paid up front and the remainder spread over the length of the player's contract.

However, Portsmouth, who are fighting for their Premier League survival, are believed to be willing to take less than the full amount should City settle before the end of the season, according to a report in the Daily Mail.

The ever-popular Three Things series has expanded to include matchday action, and this weekend we'll be dealing with the Manchester Derby. Some people saw this match in all its live glory, others on the telly, and some not at all. Either way everyone probably saw it differently and here's your chance to tell each other [.

Benjani Mwaruwari is caught between the fire and the frying pan. He is technically still a Portsmouth player and the transfer fiasco that occurred on Thursday night when he arrived late at Manchester City and could only partially rush through the paperwork implies that all is not well for the Zimbabwean international striker.

The summer transfer market is off to a slow start because of the World Cup, but I expect it to warm up soon with Man City, Spurs, Liverpool and Chelsea, all expected to be active in this transfer window.

The international transfer window opened signings on Wednesday, 9 June and will stay open until 1800 BST on Tuesday, 31 August.

City release big name trioManchester City trio Martin Petrov, Benjani Mwaruwari and Sylvinho will all leave Eastlands this summer after the club opted not to offer them new contracts.All three were used only sparingly by boss Roberto Mancini last season and their departures were expected, with the Italian set to bring in a number of players during the close season.