Friday 19 June 2009

RSC ever closer

According to Friday's Mail:

Manchester City have agreed an £18million deal to sign Roque Santa Cruz from Blackburn as they begin to build a squad to break into the Premier League's top four.

Manager Mark Hughes will finally be reunited with the striker he wanted to bring with him from Rovers to Eastlands last summer in the first of several blockbuster signings before the end of August.

We'll see whether this is true in due course; but it raises some fascinating debates over how exactly we'll play next year, and whether the 4-2-3-1 system will survive the summer. It's kind of inseparable though from the potential signings of Eto'o and Tévez.

1 comment:

somervillain said...

Firstly, thanks for doing this blog. When I look at my newsreader, your posts are always one of the first things I seek out and read.

In response to the question you raise, doesn't the Barry signing pretty much guarantee the scrapping of the 4-2-3-1? (Additionally, it would seem to also indicate the impending move of Kompany to CB.) Barry's a CM -- not a CDM -- and there's no way City would play all three of Kompany, de Jong, and Barry. That would be far too negative and essentially would eliminate a spot for club Player of the Season Ireland. It seems highly likely that Hughes will be moving to a 4-1-4-1 or 4-1-3-2 with all the apparent influx of forwards.

Keep up the excellent blogging.