More rumours

I'm not sure how likely we are to have much transfer activity for the next week or so. Mark Hughes is in Germany with the players until next weekend, and is presumably taking a look at which fringe players are worth keeping and which are going to move on. But then it is possible that he's already given Garry Cook a list of players to try for in his absence. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Diego Milito (see here ) was linked with Juventus soon after his lawyer (not his agent) claimed that City had made a bid. But the Juve Director of Sport Alessio Secco has denied any interest, saying: "Juve are not interested in Milito, simply because with Iaquinta, Del Piero, Trezeguet and Amauri our attack is complete". He also made some interesting comments about Fernando Hidalgo, Milito's agent. But if Juventus are not interested then this could still be a real possibility.

More news today concerns Matteo Ferrari. According to his agent, Gianni Corci, "he wants to stay in Italy", although he does admit the interest of foreign clubs. It might be, however, that Hughes is a big fan of Onuoha, Ball and Garrido and doesn't think we need any more defenders anyway.