Everyone's favorite rumour mill Teamtalk.com is reporting several bizarre stories this evening concerning Ex-City players and possible City players.

Firstly they insist that City are again on the verge of signing Wigan keeper Roy Carroll. Carol's is no stranger to us here at FFS Towers and has been touted as a replacement for Tim Flowers for sometime now.

They again insist though that City are to tempt Wigan with a £2m fee that they would be hard pressed to turn down.

With Transfer deadline day looming if Taylor is going to make any moves it will have to be sooner rather than later although we still find it hard to believe that he would tell Flower that he is sticking by him then sign a replacement.

Even Simon Royce, who has been excellent for us so far this year, is not picked over Flowers. In any case we will know by Thursday.

Tony Cottee is also rumoured to be making moves, this time abroad!

MLS side New England Revolution are looking at Cottee with a view to taking him to Boston intime for the new season which starts in April.

Cottee could see it as another expedience for him to try before his playing careerfinishes.

After losing his job at Barnet Cottee was soon being asked to join Revolution for a pre-season tournament in Florida.

Cottee has seen many sights in his career that have took him the length of the country and even as far a field as Malaysia. Although Cottee is remembered more for his years at West Ham he was also a firm favorite at Filbert Street and managed to lift everyone's spirit when he scored his 200th goal against Spurs in 1999 to wipe the smile off a smirking George Graham who paraded the Worthington Cup in front of City fans.

Cottee even showed his loyalty to the club when he and Steve Walsh applied to manage City after O'Neill's departure in the summer.

If Cottee does make the move to MLS then he will have gotten further than ex-teammate Ian Marshall who's MLS move fell through.