Very Juvenile reasoning. MH on Skysports news said this was old news and that TS was not selling up. The only human rights he (TS)abused were the rights of drug dealers to kill Thai children. Wish he would abuse the human rights of the scum in this country! And finally Carluka is going nowhere.

i am a city fan for the past 42 years and while i know things are not great at the moment i feel reporters like yourself make up a lot of it. it was reported corluka was having a medical at spurs while he was in fact travelling to glasgow, that would be a nice trick. where do you get the human rights abuse from, all charges leveled against him so far are of a financial nature, while amnesty international has named thaskin as an abuser they also named george bush,sarkozy,blair and many many more, unfortunately while true in somecases proof is needed

Just when I thought I might read an article with something new or insightful,I find myself once again bored by the hord of hacks that peddle the same re-hashed drivel in order to try to stir up a situation just so they can pat themselves on their collective backs whilst sitting in their dimly lit bars during their working day, agreeing on what wonderful reporters they are. The reality, is that any Manchester City fan, or any person that has had a passing interest in the club could have written an article far more interesting and informative than the rubbish presented here that is slopped onto out screens. The article is incorrect in many ways (that Jo was signed after Ronaldinho turned us down - a useful untruth to help the fantasy storyline,let alone that "Corluka is packing his bag for Spurs" - was this before or after he played against Celtic?) And yet again, another huge YAAAAWn for a website jumping on the hack wagon of slagging of Frank, whilst any real City supporter knows where we would be now without him, and its not a nice thought. Throughout the history of City,we have had to face a wall of hacks waiting to lazily bash City, whilst they bow down and worship the big clubs. We don't care. Knock us, peddle the same rubbish as everyone else, regurgitate it in whatever putrid form suits you, make up stories about our players, manager and chairman, but one thing, and one thing alone always remains constant - We will always stand man for man behind our club.

Yet again, more lazy, biased, anti-City journalism. Let me guess, does your heart belong to one of the untouchable top 4. What a shame another team outside "the elite" are showing some ambition, oh, and don't give us all that sugar daddy nonsense. Manchester Utd and Chelsea have continually bought they're titles, sadly its the only way to succeed in the prem anymore.

i feel reporters like yourself

Well let's see you try big mouth. I doubt whether you would have the bottle never mind the ability to string more than two sentences together that wouldn't have to be re-writtn by the sub-editors. Contrary to popular belief, not all of us are money-grabbing, headline seeking hacks. I personally do this for enjoyment and definitely not payment. And when you can show me 36 years of having written for virtually every national newspaper in the land then I might start listening to your mindless criticism, most of which is borne out of ignorance and not a littl jealousy I guess!

Steve, old chap, why don't you take yourself over to your own "article" and answer the critics there? There are over 20 comments that you could address, or better still why not just copypasta what you've written here? It'll save you heaps of time and preserve your hack braincells for more Pulitzer Prize winning writing.

The more critics the more the article has been read! In the thousands OLD BOY last time I checked. Must be doing something right!

I was surprised to hear talk of a "fire sale" at Man City on Channel 5's coverage of the Milan game yesterday and of Thaksin selling up, City being forced to "reduce their wage bill". "Evidence" of this was Stevie Ireland and Corluka moving on. Danny Mills did little to scotch the rumours - though admittedly he might not know much anyway, spending most of his time away from the first team squad. I thought to myself, can things turn around so quickly ? Not 2 weeks ago, we were spending £5 million on Ben Haim, when Thaksin would have known about his Court case and the risks involved over 1 year ago. Yet, Ben Haim would have insisted that he would leave Chelsea's bench to play regular first team football and so Mark Hughes would have promised him that. So, who will step aside ? Not Dunne, not Richards. Garrido and Ball play on the left whereas Corlaka plays on the right or central. Clearly, Corluka, very good though he played last season, was always the likely candidate and I recall this being discussed immediately after Ben Haim's move. Corluka might be prepared to accept a squad player role, but I think he would rather link up with Modrik at Tottenham and I don't think many premiership teams could afford to turn down £8 million plus for one of their squad players. Stevie Ireland to Sunderland ? Old news that has featured on every "transfer gossip" page from day 1 of the transfer window. If Sunderland want to splash the cash for a "light-weight" midfielder who gets a few assists but very few goals, then fine. I would be more surprised if City turned them down. He cost us nothing and so whatever Sunderland pay, (£4-5 million?) would be a bonus. Again, this would be selling another squad player. With these points in mind, the "gossip" headlines of "fire-sales" and "reducing wages bills" and "Dr. Thaksin's sell-out" appears based on "hot air". Agreed ?

The problem at City at the moment is too many people are making up stupid rumours and then they end up on rumour websites like this. I wouldnt mind but half of these people aint got a clue about the club and come from the cockney south Until I hear it from the Man City Website I dont even listen