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Four
players signed, there were the well-documented talks over Kaka but bids
for Blackburn striker Roque Santa Cruz came to nothing, with the
Paraguayan striker staying put.
City stayed clear of a hectic deadline day, with the Manager largely satisfied with the way the month panned out.
Mark
says, “Most of our business had been done by the day before, so there
were a few phone calls in regard to our players which we had to look
at, but any business that we were going to do had already been done.
“The
situation was that Blackburn were not prepared to sell their player.
Their stance was that they did not have anybody to come in, they had
apparently been trying to replace him but could not so there was no
deal to be done.
“If we had offered more money to a certain
level it would have been done, which would have negated their argument
to a certain extent, but we were not going to do that. We said all
along that we had values for players, and we were not going above them.
“They
retained their player, and they were well within their rights to do
that. We wanted to bring a good player to Manchester City, our
motivation in trying to do the deal was that we thought he could help
us. But it has not happened, so we move on.”
Reflecting on the
deals that brought Wayne Bridge, Craig Bellamy, Nigel de Jong and Shay
Given to the Club, Mark thinks City did some sensible business:
“We
have still spent a significant amount of money. What we were able to do
was address a number of the key areas that we felt needed to be
strengthened. You always have targets you are hopeful of getting in a
transfer window, but you are always realistic about the likelihood of
bringing each and every one of them in.
“That’s been borne out, but we have probably done better than we thought when the window opened.”
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