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On Monday City opened their new state-of-the-art £200million training ground in the presence of playing legends past and present.

City need a win in Rome to give them the best chance of qualification from Group E and must hope that CSKA Moscow fail to win at Bayern Munich.

Phelan, who spent five years as Sir Alex Ferguson’s right-hand man at Old Trafford before leaving when David Moyes took over the reins in 2013, says the new regime under Louis van Gaal could be the reason for United’s injuries this term.

On paper what looks like a staggeringly good win against a Southampton side who had started the season on fire was actually a far from convincing victory for United.

Robin van Persie’s double secured a 2-1 victory for United – their fifth on the bounce – against Southampton on Monday evening, though they only managed three shots on goal, their lowest tally in a game since 2003.

The news of the sale strangely came via a press release half way through United’s Premier League away win at Southampton last night.

At a meeting with Manchester City’s 1894 fan group to discuss rail seating, the safest standing system, Lib Dem MP for Withington John Leech questioned whether clubs would be vilified for introducing them.

The Latics suffered yet another loss on Saturday at home to Norwich City, who saw the struggling club off in the first five minutes to come away with a 1-0 win that left Wigan three points from safety.

Bolton’s boxing superstar Amir Khan claims there’s ‘no truth’ that he was knocked out on numerous occasions by Manny Pacquiao in sparring ahead of his Vegas bout with Devon Alexander.

Manager Keith Hill could only name five players on the bench for the second round tie, with three members of his team succumbing to a virus the evening prior to the game.

Argentine striker Aguero went off with knee ligament damage before City ran out 1-0 winners over Everton in the Premier League at The Etihad as they look ahead to Wednesday’s must-win Champions League game.