Source: Daily_Mail
A Roque road: My first battle is to get into Man City's team, says Santa Cruz
Roque Santa Cruz had little appetite for trading insults with his old Blackburn manager Sam Allardyce yesterday, after finally completing an £18million move to Manchester City, and it was easy to see why.
Never mind Allardyce rubbing his hands at the size of the fee and, just as provocatively, saying it would be spent on players who 'wanted to play for Blackburn', the Paraguay frontrunner had more pressing matters on his mind.
Not least, the vexed question of how he might force his way to the front of a queue for starting places that appears to be lengthening by the day. One surely has Robinho's name on it, while imminent arrival Carlos Tevez made plain his aversion to a bit-part role at Manchester United and Samuel Eto'o is even less likely to find himself on the bench, should he bow to pressure from his Barcelona bosses and become the world's best-paid player at Eastlands.
Manager Mark Hughes laughed off a suggestion his aim was to accumulate a starting 11 of strikers, but he could go close after apparently agreeing a deal for Tevez and admitting he had not given up hope of prising Eto'o away from the Nou Camp.
It promises to be the most star-studded attacking line-up the Barclays Premier League has seen in years, but it could end up troubling Hughes as much as opposing defences, if any of its illustrious members begin to agitate over lack of involvement.
