Nedum Signs new deal!

Nedum Onuoha has signed a new five year contract, this is another example of academy players not being pushed aside for big signings.

This is great news as far as I am concerned especially with rumoured interest from Everton.

Nedum is a good player and I am a huge fan of his, he has come on a lot in recent times and I have no doubt in my mind that if he continues to improve then he will be a full England International for many years to come.

Hughes has done well to recognise that he needs to concentrate on the talent he already has considering all the big money players he has had to work on bringing in.

Stuart Pearce selects three City players

Joe Hart, Nedum Onuoha and Micah Richards have all been called up to the England under-21 squad for friendlies against Norway and France.

The first game will see the squad travel to Sandefjord to take on Norway on the 27Th of March, they then come back to England to play France on the 31st of March at the City Ground, Nottingham.

Ex City boss Pearce is using the games as preparation for the under-21 European Championships that take place in Sweden this summer.

Man City 1-0 Middlesbrough (Bellamy 51')

Well not much to say about this game it was terrible to watch for the most part, it was obvious Boro came for a draw as I thought they would although they did have two up top but they certainly were not concentrating on their attack.

I could paper over the cracks seems as we won but I wont we were awful, countless bad passes going to nobody and no kind of invention in the midfield again wat so ever.

We were very lucky today that Boro were worse than us because if we were playing a decent side we would have got comfortably beaten, infact if Shay Given didn't make four world class saves today we would have been beaten, although that would not have been a fair reflection on the game as we were the better of the two poor teams.

Things to remember from todays game - Bellamys goal, Givens superb saves, Robinho messed up a one on one with the keeper and that's it.

After watching that poor display today I'm totally deflated as you can probably tell from the way I have wrote about today's game but it was hard to watch how poor we were, Boro themselves were terrible it was almost like we wanted to compete for the worst team award something has to change fast.

Positives from today's game were Shay Given was brilliant and has already paid back his fee with the saves he made today and Nedum Onuoha continues to impress in defence in the absence of Dunney and will probably stop Dunney from getting back in the team if he continues to play so well.