Manchester City release 10 players

[Benitez]

David Sommeil, Kiki Musampa and Albert Riera head a list of 10 players who have been released by Manchester City.

French defender Sommeil, 31, was signed for £3.4m from Bordeaux by Kevin Keegan in January 2003 but has not been a regular under Stuart Pearce.

 

Pearce has also decided not to extend Musampa and Riera's loan deals from Atletico Madrid and Espanyol.

 

Goalkeeper Geert de Vlieger, defender Mikkel Bischoff and Finnish midfielder Tuomas Haapala are also moving on.

 

Bischoff was signed for £750,000 in July 2002 but has failed to break into the first team.

 

Reserve team players Ian Bennett, Karl Bermingham, Paul Collins and Michael Ward have also been told they are surplus to requirements.

 

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[Kahnee]

Pearce wasn't kidding when he said they were going for a major overhaul

[ManxRed]

Anyone else think their striker Vegetable Samosa (or whatever his name is) looks like he could be Morientes's younger brother?

[Paul B]

Anyone else think their striker Vegetable Samosa (or whatever his name is) looks like he could be Morientes's younger brother?

 

 

Isn't it funny how you never see them in the same room together? No wonder Moro can do nowt for us, he's been moonlighting for City and is probably knackered due to Psycho's training regime.

[Guest Cardie]

Surprised he didn't keep Riera, looked ok in the few games I saw.

[Guest redmilky]

Bit off topic but Portsmouth have dropped Westerveld too. What happened to the lad?

[Clay Davis]

corrigan

[hagi_complex]

Anyone else think their striker Vegetable Samosa (or whatever his name is) looks like he could be Morientes's younger brother?

 

He's a ringer for him. The proto-mullet helps. He plays a bit like Moro in his pomp too, at times.