manchester city going to spend plenty more this window...

according to Noel Gallagher anyway

Former Oasis star Noel Gallagher claims to have been given as glimpse of Manchester City plans which will rock the world of football.

The Blues fan says he was let in on the club?s ?mind-blowing? transfer strategy by chief executive Garry Cook over lunch.

And while he appeared to rule out moves for Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, Gallagher hesitated when asked about City?s designs on Fernando Torres during a radio interview.

The rocker claimed that Cook had written the names of City?s intended 24-man squad for next season on a napkin.

He said, ahead of Sunday?s World Cup final in Johannesburg, which he attended: ?I just had a big, long lunch with Garry Cook and the revelations you lot are going to hear in the next month are going to blow your mind ? but I can?t say anything.

?Players coming and going, and where they are going to and where they are coming from.?

Pressed on names, Gallagher replied in the negative to Barcelona superstar Messi and to Real Madrid?s ?80million man Ronaldo.

But when asked about Torres, for whom City appear to be fighting a losing battle, he refused to rule anything out.

?Garry was writing out these names on a napkin, about who was going to be in the squad.

?Put it down on paper, and the 24-man squad we will have will be looking to win everything next season.

?That?s not being big-headed and saying we are going to win everything, but we have to go into it thinking ?Who is better than us in the league??

?Chelsea have more experience and United have more in Alex Ferguson, but other than that I am looking at the names there and being blown away, thinking that we are rightly third favourites to win the league.?

City seem to be lagging behind Chelsea in the chase for Torres, and face stiff competition from Juventus for striker Edin Dzeko.

But sources in Italy suggest Juve cannot afford to compete with the Blues, and that Dzeko will be meeting with City officials this week.

They also raise the prospect that City may sell Emmanuel Adebayor to the Turin outfit to help facilitate the Dzeko deal.

There is also growing talk of a similar deal with Chelsea, with the Blues giving up the chase for Torres and in return being offered either Nicolas Anelka or Didier Drogba.

Posted By: loz on July 13th 2010 at 15:48:01

Message Thread

manchester city going to spend plenty more this window... (NCFC) - loz, Jul 13, 15:48:01
- I've heard they wanted Raoul Moat (NCFC) - yarmyyarmy, Jul 13, 15:53:06
  - He's got a cracking shot on him. (NCFC) - tudders, Jul 13, 15:57:28
    - Just when the police couldn't get any lower than attacking vulnerable people laid on the (NCFC) - pants, Jul 13, 16:06:03
      - were you there? (n/m) (NCFC) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Jul 13, 16:28:15
        
        My wrath's gone bent-up again (n/m) (NCFC) - Tron, Jul 13, 16:54:05
        
        My wrath's gone bent-up again (n/m) (NCFC) - Tron, Jul 13, 16:53:38
        
        My wrath's gone bent-up again (n/m) (NCFC) - Tron, Jul 13, 16:52:51
      - But remember everyone... (NCFC) - Rofl_Harris, Jul 13, 16:20:42
      - he had killed one person, attempted to murder a woman and shot a cop in the face (NCFC) - no one, Jul 13, 16:15:02
        
        Unlike De Menezes who deserved 7 bullets for co operating (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, Jul 13, 16:25:18
        
        Completely unrelated of course. (n/m) (NCFC) - tudders, Jul 13, 16:26:06
        
        Except in both instances a crime has been committed (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, Jul 13, 16:32:40
        
        Correct. But in this case it was Moat who had commited the crime. (NCFC) - tudders, Jul 13, 18:21:03
        
        Yeah I get that (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, Jul 13, 19:17:24
        
        forces a joke (NCFC) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Jul 13, 16:35:52
        
        an eye for eye leaves both men blind (NCFC) - pants, Jul 13, 16:39:57
        
        I think there's a lesson there for us all. (NCFC) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Jul 13, 16:52:21
        
        Or if someone decides to leave their house one day to get the tube (NCFC) - pants, Jul 13, 16:55:02
        
        Indeed. Best for everyone just stay at home (NCFC) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Jul 13, 17:01:18
        
        But when the system fails on a regular basis, as it has done here (NCFC) - pants, Jul 13, 17:08:16
        
        you might be a bit young to remember this one pants (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 13, 17:17:51
        
        I remember that one (NCFC) - Monty Peculiar, Jul 13, 17:51:33
        
        yeah, they clearly wanted the bloke dead. I think the man they confused Waldorf with had (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 13, 17:58:32
        
        This is what I don't understand. If someone rang you now and said (NCFC) - pants, Jul 13, 18:13:00
        
        walk into a police station and give yourself up (n/m) (NCFC) - Charles21, Jul 13, 19:54:58
        
        yo go to the Sun and get them to persuade everyone you're not dangerous (n/m) (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 13, 18:17:15
        
        ha ha, I suppose if it did happen, (NCFC) - pants, Jul 13, 18:19:30
        
        Just put it on Facebook, much easier. (n/m) (NCFC) - tudders, Jul 13, 18:19:22
        
        or wrath, we'd help you out (n/m) (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 13, 18:30:35
        
        I don't remember that. I do remember this innocent lad being shot though (NCFC) - pants, Jul 13, 17:25:19
        
        that's very fucking out of order by that account (n/m) (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 13, 17:32:01
        
        You must have got a great view of it all unfolding (NCFC) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Jul 13, 17:10:32
        
        ha ha (NCFC) - pants, Jul 13, 17:19:53
        
        point is that it's a bit hard to opine without know what really happened (n/m) (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 13, 17:21:58
        
        True, it's good to be cautious as well (NCFC) - pants, Jul 13, 17:31:22
        
        even when they're found to have acted improperly (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 13, 17:36:39
        
        This is kind of my overall point to this (NCFC) - pants, Jul 13, 17:40:43
        
        I don't really have any idea what happpened with moat, but it doesn't yet seem (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 13, 17:46:27
        
        *they're not* (NCFC) - pants, Jul 13, 17:31:50
        
        You don't know, pants. You might be right, but you don't know what happened. (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, Jul 13, 16:35:08
        
        Did they let his family talk to him? (n/m) (NCFC) - Tron, Jul 13, 16:38:00
        
        but you don't know a crime was committed, do you? (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, Jul 13, 16:43:30
        
        I wasn't (n/m) (NCFC) - Tron, Jul 13, 16:45:37
        
        I don't know (n/m) (NCFC) - Tron, Jul 13, 16:42:50
        
        did they let Gazza talk to him? (n/m) (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 13, 16:39:13
        
        I don't know (NCFC) - Tron, Jul 13, 16:45:08
        
        Did they listen to the prison officer before they let him out (NCFC) - pants, Jul 13, 16:43:56
        
        did the prison officers play it too safe with their risk assessments of prisoners as a who (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 13, 16:55:14
        
        Man with shotgun slightly less vulnerable than man without, I'd have thought. (n/m) (NCFC) - tudders, Jul 13, 16:17:59
      - What actually is your point with this, other than being contrary? (NCFC) - tudders, Jul 13, 16:14:43
        
        Waited for him to give up (NCFC) - pants, Jul 13, 16:23:15
        
        Eeerrr....he killed himself, or maybe, (NCFC) - tudders, Jul 13, 16:25:09
        
        talked things through over a can of lager and some chicken (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 13, 16:17:31
      - Oh well. Suppose it saved the tax-payer one bullet. (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Jul 13, 16:14:41
        
        Except the public enquiry will probably cost a fortune (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, Jul 13, 16:52:43
        
        And saved Gazza a can of lager, KFC, fishing rod and a dressing gown. (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Jul 13, 16:15:31

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