Football Dissected

Looks like Sven is really rebuilding Man City. I've seen Elano Blumer play in the Brazilian national team for the past two years and he's a very gifted player. He's more of a play-maker than anything else, a bit like Cesc Fàbregas and the young promising Barcelona play-maker Giovanni dos Santos.

There's obviously going to be a period of adjustment, particularly since he's coming from FC Shakhtar Donetsk in the Ukraine where the quality of football is no where near the level of the Premiership, but I think he's a good buy. He can pass the ball, he's good with both feet, he can score goals and he can set up goals, which was no more evident than in the recent Copa America final win against Argentina where he made a pinpoint cross to midfielder Júlio Baptista who then, of course, hammered the ball into the top corner of the net.