City Do a Barca

Moments after signing Carlos Tevez for 25m, Man City make a 20m pound bid for Emanuel Adebayor.

This begs the question: are City trying to create the squad to run god's perfect formation--the oft referenced but rarely used 1-1-8?  City's possible formation: 

                         Given

                       Richards

                         Barry

                 Ireland        Elano

Robinho                                    Petrov

   Tevez         Adebayor         Bellamy

                     Santa Cruz

Look familiar?  That's because it bears a FRIGHTENING resemblance to Barcelona 07-08:

                        Valdes

                         Puyol

 

                         Toure

               Iniesta        Bojan

    Dos Santos                Ronaldinho

Messi          Gudjohnsen           Henry

                          Eto'o

City's is a slight variation--they'll be playing 4 TRUE strikers, plus Robinho while Barca supplemented 2 true strikers (one playing out of position on the left wing) with 2 creative players (one who used to be the best in the world, one who was on his way to becoming the best in the world) and Eidur Gudjohnsen.

What I'm trying to say is that Sheik Mansour is actually Frank Rijkaard.