The Transfer Speculation & Discussion Thread

Don't City have to keep Sinclair and Rodwell for the home grown rule?


Off the top of my head our HG (of note) are:

Hart
Wright
Richards
Boyata
Rekik *
Nastasic *
Clichy
Zucullini *
Rodwell
Milner
Lampard (feels strange writing his name)
Sinclair
Guidetti

and Lopes* and Huws* who are out on loan at Lille and Wigan


* Don't have to be registered in the 25 (U-21's).



So currently (not counting the foreigner -Garcia- we will have to sell when Mangala goes through) we have 27 players (17+10) to register, so 2 HG have to leave.

Of the registerable HG players, I expect Richards, Rodwell, Sinclair and Guidetti will leave, meaning we will have a 23 man squad plus one of Rekik/Nastasic (one will leave -hopefully only on loan- as we don't need a 5th proper CB -Boyata is rubbish enough for that :P) - so a 24 man squad in reality, which is pretty normal

Zucculini is expected to go on loan to Deportivo, with some reports suggesting he will take over from Lampard in late Jan.


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Rodwell in Sunderland for his medical. £10m being reported. Not bad given he cost 12m and is always injured.
Tho if he gets over his injuries he will be worth it. Good luck to him.
 
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Rekik is 19 so doesn't need to be registered. The difference between him and Nastasic is that Rekik will always be HG whereas Nastasic will turn into a foreigner next season. If we had signed Nastasic a year earlier he would have always been HG by virtue of being at the club for 3 years prior to turning 21.

Sinclair isn't good enough
 
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