Thursday 21 August 2008

Guardian claims Johnson signs today

The Guardian's article on City this morning claims that Michael Johnson will sign a new five year deal today.

On the plus side, Michael Johnson will today sign a new five-year deal at Eastlands and finally resolve a summer of intrigue. The 20-year-old midfielder has been a big-money target for various clubs since Liverpool first made a £3m bid for him more than a year ago.

Apparently the deal was 'on the verge of collapsing last week' but it 'contains a large and immeadiate pay increase'. Read it all HERE.

This hasn't appeared anywhere else in this morning's press, but I'm quite confident of its veracity. The author, Daniel Taylor, is The Guardian's man in Manchester, who broke that we were signing Tal Ben Haim long before anyone else.

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