We are approaching the period when the various comings and goings will have to be seen in the light of the squad rules. So, once again I intend to keep track of what this means for the squad as no doubt the media will be telling us how we have far too many players and Mancini will never keep them all happy.
The rules don't appear to have changed since last year, so:-
A squad of 25 players aged over 21 on Jan 1 2011 must be named at the end of August.
of whom eight must be home-grown "A home-grown player will be defined as one who, irrespective of his nationality or age, has been registered with any club affiliated to the Football Association or the Football Association of Wales for a period, continuous or not, of three entire seasons or 36 months prior to his 21st birthday (or the end of the Season during which he turns 21).?"
Clubs will be able to supplement their squads with unlimited additional players under the age of 21 on 1st January 2011
In addition UEFA requires that we have 4 Club trained (CT) players - having spent 3 years at City from age 15-21 - for the Champions League
As we have a number of senior players who spent last season on loan and appear to be surplus to Mancini's requirements I will show them as "surplus" until pre-season begins to suggest that they might be getting a place.
I think we currently have a squad of 21, with 9 HG and 2 CT. The 2 CT's will be a problem - so we might go into Champions League with a squad of 22 (in which Ballotelli also needs to be included)
Goalkeepers
Hart (HG)
Taylor (HG)
Pantilimon
Nielsen
Defenders
Lescott (HG)
Richards (HG)(CT)
Kolo
Zabaleta
Kolarov
Kompany
Clichy (HG)
Bridge (HG)
Onouha (HG)(CT)
on loan
Mee (HG)(CT)
McGivern
Boyata
u-21
Cunningham
Wabara
Savic
Midfield
A Johnson (HG)
Silva
Barry (HG)
Yaya
De Jong
Milner (HG)
Nasri
Hargreaves
u-21
Ibrahim
Kay
Assulin
Razak
Chantler
Elabdellaoui
Suarez
on loan
M Johnson (HG)(CT)
Weiss (HG)(CT)
Forwards
Tevez
Dzeko
Aguero
on loan
Santa Cruz
Adebayor
Guidetti
u-21
Nimely
Ballotelli
4 July Edit to add Clichy
6 July added Savic - although he doesn't count in the Squad!
18 July - removed Boateng, Given and Mee,
21 July - removed Jo
28 July - add Aguero, remove Caicedo, move Johnson to loan
5 Aug - add Pantilimon
31 Aug - lots of editing!
2 Sept - updated to reflect official squad list