Toure linked

An interesting rumour growing recently is that City are going to go for Kolo Toure in January.

It started, as many good City stories do, with Daniel Taylor in The Guardian on Saturday. There wasn't much over the weekend but it was in Monday's M.E.N. and Tueday's Mail and Times.

I don't think it requires inside knowledge to guess that Hughes is going to bring in more, and better defenders in January: only Hull, Stoke, Blackburn and West Brom have conceded more league goals than we have this season. Whilst they were both brilliant on Saturday, neither Dunne nor Richards have impressed much so far. Tal Ben Haim, about whom I was excited when we bought him, has so far been a big dissapointment.

Now I'm not Kolo Toure's biggest fan - I'd much rather have William Gallas (even with the lunacy thrown in), but Kolo would still be a really good signing: only 27 years old, played more than 200 Premier Leauge games, with one League title and two FA Cup wins. I'd love Richards and Dunne to be as good a pairing as Distin and Dunne, but it seems like that might not happen. So why not shake things up?

And if we don't get Diarra we should go for Kolo's brother too.