Football Corner

Manchester City claimed their third successive victory in the Premier League today after defeating Birmingham 1-0 in a cagey affair, but in my view they still lack a striker. They signed both Rolando Bianchi (From Reggina for 8.8 million) and Valeri Bojinov (from Fiorentina for 5.7 million) but neither has managed to break into the first team largely through injury.

Bianchi has had problems settling in, in Manchester and Bojinov is out of action until the New Year with a serious knee injury. Bianchi has said that if he is not in City boss Sven Goran Eriksson's first team plans by Christmas, then he may look for a move in January.

City have a prolific goalscorer in Elano at the moment but he is an attacking midfielder, what they need is an out and out striker who scores goals week in, week out. They have played mainly with Emile Mpenza this season but in my view he just isn't good enough for a side that are hoping to challenge for a Top 4 place this season.

They brought Georgious Samaras on today and for the time he had on the field it looked very promising but unfortunately for me, he never puts in a consistent run of performances for the Blues. Last season he had two quality games against Everton and West Ham were he scored two in both games, but it's not good enough to have two quality performances a season.

So if City were to go out and sign a new striker who might that be. Well the papers seem to suggest that either England striker Michael Owen or former City player Nicolas Anelka could be on their way to the City of Manchester Stadium. I would personally prefer Owen to come because the last time Anelka played for City he was always to lazy in my view.