Joleon Lescott News

Manchester City fly off to a post-season tour of the United States this afternoon, with their left-back, Aleksandar Kolarov, accused for the second time this season of abusing members of the crowd.

Manchester City saw a disappointing season and a tough week end with a tame 3-2 home defeat to Norwich.

Stuart Pearce may be out of a job if the Under-21s fail to win the European Under-21 tournament.

England manager Roy Hodgson is adamant he has enough promising young players not to give any more thought to recalling John Terry or Rio Ferdinand .

FORMER Chelsea player Cameron McGeehan landed the killer blow as Norwich won the FA Youth Cup for the first time in 30 years.

It could prove to be a rather tame encounter at the Madejski Stadium as long-relegated Reading entertain a Manchester City side still smarting from the unbelievable disappointment of their FA Cup final defeat to Wigan.

Board told the Italian to retain Blues' Premier League crown and mastermind a run to latter stages of Champions League Roberto Mancini has been sacked and branded a failure by Manchester City - a year to the day after he led them to Premier League glory.

Mancini deserves sympathy for his treatment, but this season he has failed to deliver the honours the club's owners demand Manchester City fans sang Roberto Mancini's name at Wembley as a form of protest against the club's owners.

I'm glad the Special One circus won't be pitching its big top at Old Trafford PLUS Why Rafa Benitez is the best man for the vacancy at Everton Just a few weeks ago, after Everton's FA Cup quarter-final defeat by Wigan , fans were calling Six-O-Six to say it was time for Moyes to go, and that his reign at Goodison Park had run its course.

The Cagliari defender, who is valued at in excess of A 10m, was among the players Saints were interested in signing last January.

As the Barclays Premier League season draws to a close, and the remaining issues are resolved, it's time to step back and take stock.

City sent two scouts to watch the 26-year-old play for Cagliari in a 0-0 draw with Chievo on Saturday.

Each day we'll bring you the very latest tabloid rumors as the biggest clubs around splash the cash to bolster their rosters.

Roberto Mancini makes two changes following his side's 2-1 victory over West Ham last Saturday as Joleon Lescott is replaced by Matija Nastasic at centre-back James Milner starts ahead of Carlos Tevez for Manchester City's Premier League clash with Swansea at the Liberty Stadium.

Hart has come in for criticism for the gaffe he made against West Ham last weekend when he let Andy Carroll's last-minute shot slip through his legs.

Swansea boss Michael Laudrup is unlikely to make too many changes from the side who lost 2-0 in their previous match away to Chelsea.

Transfer rumours are coming in thick and fast as we near the end of the current campaign... CHAMPAGNE SUPER-NOVA? The latest of one hundred and counting new City signings is allegedly Diego Novaretti 27 years old, currently of Toluca, who is apparently one of the Mexican League's top centre backs.

Everton striker Victor Anichebe has agreed to put his Nigeria career on hold for the foreseeable future.

Fernandinho scored the winning goal as Shakhtar beat Chelsea 2-1 in the Champions League in October.

Manchester City defender Joleon Lescott will consider a move back to Everton this summer - but only if David Moyes remains as manager.