City Shocker!
The big stories on deadline day all came out of Eastlands. After being taken over by Middle East company, Abu Dhabi United Group, Man City then proceeded to rock the footballing world with bids for Dimitar Berbatov (Tottenham), David Villa (Valencia) and Mario Gomez (Stuttgart).

Failing in their audacious bid for Dimitar Berbatov, the oil-rich Arabs then launched and succeeded in an even more outrageous bid for Chelsea target Robinho. The Brazilian, who had just recently announced he wanted to move to Chelsea, signed for a British transfer record fee of £32.5m, inking a four-year deal on £90,000 a week.