Transfer round-up – Sanchez, Cissokho, Cahill, Mata

With the Alexis Sanchez transfer turning into a saga of epic proportions, City are enduring a frustrating time in the transfer window. Financial Fair Play is clearly affecting the buying of players, but selling clubs continue to ask exhorbitant prices.

Reading between the lines, and there’s a great many of them, Sanchez appears to want to move to Barcelona but Udinese are set upon driving the price up as high as possible. Without Barca’s interest the Chilean may well have been a City player by now, but the appeal of the European Champions is undeniable.