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City target six new players

17 Jun 2009 - 08:12:40

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Manchester City chairman Khaldoon al Mubarak has targeted six new players to bolster Mark Hughes' squad this summer.

City have already snapped up Gareth Barry from Aston Villa since the season ended but look set for a busy couple of months before the summer transfer window closes.

Al Mubarak told The National, an Abu Dhabi English language paper: "We will shrink our squad and add four to six players.

"Key for us is that we trust Mark Hughes and any acquisition is based on his view.

"But I'm frustrated that people assume we are going to throw crazy money at deals, that we won't understand true values and we can't negotiate or get value for a player.

"We've had numbers thrown at us that are a joke.

"There are situations where a £10million player will be offered to us for a 'City price' of £20million. We just leave because at that point there's no point arguing - if people are throwing crazy numbers at us, fine, deals won't be done.

"Look at (City owner) Sheikh Mansour. He's a very shrewd businessman who has conducted himself in a professional way. I will defend the value of every deal we have done.

"Look at our Robinho deal. If he went in this transfer window for the same price it would be a steal.

"Our deals to date presented fair value to the clubs we brought them from, fair value to us and are typical of the type of deals we are looking to make."