Kolo Toure will join Man City this week, according to a reliable source in Manchester.
Mark Hughes’s pursuit of Toure is no secret, of course.
He badly needs reliable pros who will play hard in away games as well as home games.
Without that, Mark Hughes will be sacked.
Ade and Kolo are friends, so it makes sense.
If Toure goes, the move will substantially reduce Arsenal’s exposure to the African Cup of Nations in February. If Eboue leaves, even more so.
In that period, the team is due to play Aston Villa, Chelsea and Liverpool, plus FA Cup ties. That is one reason NOT to sign Chamakh, who will be playing for Morocco, one of the top African Nations teams.
Man City’s directors had a board meeting on whether to sign Adebarndoor.
They had a vote on it. The vote was split. They decided to back the manager.