Manchester City boss Stuart Pearce has offered a week's trial to former Barcelona stalwart Pep Guardiola.
Guardiola, 34, spent 17 years at the Nou Camp before having spells with Brescia and Roma in Serie A.
He then moved on to Qatar, where he came to the attention of former City favourite Ali Benarbia, who suggested Pearce have a look at him.
Having been impressed by another of Benarbia's suggestions, midfielder Yasser Hussein, Pearce has opted to look at Guardiola, who will train with the Blues first-team squad for the next seven days, allowing the new City chief to assess whether he can stand the rigours of top flight action.
Although he will not be involved in Saturday's Barclays Premiership opener with West Brom, Guardiola is likely to play in Tuesday's reserve team encounter with Middlesbrough.
Meanwhile, City officials are still trying to resolve work permit problems for Hussein, who has been offered a six month contract.
Hussein is a regular member of Qatar's national squad but because his country are ranked a lowly 75th in the FIFA rankings, City have to make a special case for the midfielder to be allowed to ply his trade in England.
話晒都係一代球星, 個人黎講都幾鍾意佢
希望佢踼好d可以留係man city 啦...
不過咁睇man city 好似財政開始唔掂, 今年一味簽free既人 (又唔後生), swp又走左, 照睇今年成績都唔方會好得去邊
fowler 射失個一個12碼對成隊波既影響都好大
同時想問下 hussein 係乜水? 勁唔勁ga?作者: fffffa 時間: 2005-8-11 06:32 AM
西班牙傳奇中場~~~哥迪奧拿作者: 秋葉林 時間: 2005-8-11 09:03 AM
唔係呱,賣咗胡禮菲臘斯勁賺2,200萬磅﹙原先唔駛錢簽番嚟﹚,應該好好多喇吓話作者: brightlee 時間: 2005-8-11 09:38 AM
Man City was -60 millions pounds at the end of last year.作者: srfqt1 時間: 2005-8-11 09:20 PM
Originally posted by brightlee at 2005-8-11 09:38 AM:
Man City was -60 millions pounds at the end of last year.
係呀!
賣anelka同swp都唔夠還債作者: 唔講得笑 時間: 2005-8-12 03:25 AM