Transfer window: 54 hours to go

• The most likely arrival is still Shay Given. He has now been given permission to talk to City, and given that he didn't attend training yesterday at Newcastle we can take it as a given that he'll be at City by Monday 5pm.
  

• The Daily Mail says that we're close to signing Kolo Touré for £15million. I'd presumed that moving Kompany to centre back would mean that we didn't need another defender, but it may be that Kompany-Touré rather than Kompany-Dunne is the preferred long term partnership.

• Rumours in The Times that Sunderland have made a bid for Tal Ben Haim. After his not being on the Tenerife training camp - presumably as a punishment for going behind Hughes' back to complain about him to Garry Cook - he clearly doesn't have much of a future at City.

• Someone who I really hope does have a future at City is Danny Sturridge. The Sun says that Portsmouth want him on loan, and The Mirror seems to have a 'Sturridge to Villa' story at least once a week. I'm actually getting rather anxious about this - he can go where he wants on a Bosman in the summer. Let's hope this is just his agent milking us for money.