City Sign Nasri

Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, better known as one Sheikh Mansour, has reached into his bottomless pit of Arabian oil money and emerged with a playmaking midfielder for around £24 million. That's right, one of the longest running transfer sagas of the summer has ended, with the rich boys coming out on top again.

At only 24, Nasri is one of the most exciting and gifted players in world football today, and was considered at one point last season a front-runner for EPL PFA player of the year. The only question is, will he be a victim of the Man City blackhole? Where a gifted player (Edin Dzeko, Emmanuel Adebayor, Mario Balotelli), transfers into the squad only to be shuffled in and out of the starting 11 at the whim of Mancini or the Sheikh.

Regardless, City only benefit from this deal as they receive a distributor on the order of David Silva, someone who can score goals as well as set them up for the aforementioned strikers. Arsenal, meanwhile, seem to be reeling. Coming off a 2-0 home defeat to the resurgently mighty Reds of Liverpool, and having lost their two best players and central midfielders, a fall from their perennial top four status may not be hard to imagine. Heavy incoming transfers in the January window may be the key to an Arsenal resurgence.

Nasri looking spindly-legged and ever so French