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1) William Gallas the French and Arsenal defender has his captains armband taken away from him over his recent outburst at the Arsenal players after their loss to Aston Villa match. The captains armband has now gone mto the French defender Gael Glichy , as Kolo Toure is injuredand not at all fit for the game against Manchester City. And at the same time Cesc Fabregas will not be playing on saturday as he has now picked up five yellow cards and will miss the game verses Manchester City .
Arsene Wenger has refused to select William Gallas for The Manchester City game and has very cleary told Gallas to,stay at home.
2) Mark Hughes and the Manchester City owners have a fat cheque book this january. And they are after Gianlughi Buffon for a sum of 50 million pounds , and could very well reach 63 million pounds a record. But Juventus are saying Buffon is not going anywhere in January or in the summer even if he is thirty years old..
3) The Manchester City players are quite a worried lot these days as Micah Richards says Many players would be sold and so many new costlier players would take their place
4) There is talk that Alan Shearer the former Newcastle star and darling of the club is already working on his new set of assistants when he will take over as manager.