Away from England, Sergio Aguero suffered a recurrence of the injury he first had against Blackburn, it doesn't look like being too serious and he is now unlikely to feature for Argentina at all on this break, hopefully he will return to Manchester soon. Edin Dzeko didn't have the best time with Bosnia only drawing 0-0 at home to Portugal, they play the reverse leg on Tuesday night and I can't see them getting much. Things weren't much better for Aleksandar Kolarov who saw red when he was playing for Serbia, Stefan Savic also had an unenjoyable evening as Montenegro lost 2-0 to the Czech Republic in their World Cup qualifier it really was a mixed bag for the City boys.
One of the real bright sparks though was Super Mario hitting his first goal for Italy in their 2-0 victory over Poland, it was a bit of a stunner and can be seen here.
Away from international football and onto more important matters there are a few City stories doing the rounds today, I suppose it would be best to get Carlos Tevez out of the way first. As we all know he has fled back to Argentina to see his family, a strange notion since his advisers claimed his family were settled happily in England about 10 days ago, but oh well! It is The People covering this one today so I suggest you take all of this with a pretty large dollop of salt. They reckon that the Argentine will remain in his home land and risk being sued rather than return to Manchester. I am fast losing interest in this story, the sooner he is out of the club the better, the paper reckon that Inter Milan are readying a £30million bid in January, my fingers are crossed, good riddance Carlos!
Whilst Tevez is hardly a forgotten man (hopefully he soon will be) Nedum Onuoha certainly is. I have never been entirely sure what Bobby as got against Neds but he clearly doesn't rate him, the only thing I can come up with is his attack on the manager on Soccer AM last year...an Italian never forgets. Whilst I don't think Onuoha is good enough for a team at the top of the table, I think he has enough to be a member of the squad. It does sadden me slightly that his career at City never came to anything, he is a true blue, but the writing has been on the wall for a while. According to the Manchester Evening News, QPR and West Brom are queuing up to resurrect his career with both sides linked to £3.5million moves. It would appear a near certainty he will be on his way soon and I wish him all the best and hope he can find that form and ability he demonstrated early in his career.
Finally today we are dealing with reports of a player coming in, and an exciting one too. The Metro are covering the clubs chase for German international Marco Reus. The player has been in prolific scoring form in Germany for his club Borussia Monchengladbach and this has lead to a call up to the national side. He has scored 8 times in 10 appearances so far this season and there is thought to be keen interest in the player from Arsenal as well as City. Mike Rigg, the clubs technical director spoke to German newspaper Bild saying:
"I know Marco, because I like him a lot...He is one of the most talented players you have in Germany and we have watched him very often.".
The Metro claim that Arsene Wenger has already been in contact with the players club after being tipped off by Jens Lehmann. It is believed that because of a clause in the players contract he could be available next Summer for £15million, it has also been suggested that should Monchengladbach show willing to sell Bayern Munich will enter the race for his signature as well. There is no certainty in this story, but he is a top prospect and just the sort of player that we should be linked with.
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