LATEST TRANSFER ODDS CONFIRM BALOTELLI TO MANCHESTER CITY AND MASCHERANO TO INTER

If the morning papers are to be believed then Mario Balotelli is close to completing a £25million move from Inter Milan to Manchester City. The Italian would take City’s summer spending up to the £100million barrier as he follows in the footsteps of Aleksandar Kolarov, Yaya Toure and David Silva.

Inter Milan are expected to splash the cash received from the deal on Javier Mascherano who has today told Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson that he would like to leave the club, with Liverpool then being linked with a move for Scott Parker to replace the Argentinean.
The James Milner to Manchester City story also rumbles on as some reports today suggest that Shaun Wright-Phillips will be offered to Aston Villa as part of a player-plus-cash deal.
The bookmakers are clearly impressed with City’s transfer dealings so far this summer and Coral make them a 4/7 shot for a top four finish. Liverpool, on the other hand, are up against it and are odds of 11/5 with Bwin.
Today is a landmark day in the official countdown to the 2012 Olympics. Two years forward from today London will host the opening ceremony for the Olympic Games kicking off a festival of sport, and athletes, volunteers and officials have congregated today to celebrate the date.
Experts are today predicting record medal hauls for the GB team despite the lengthy timescale before the Games begin. Predictions are based on current world rankings, results in European and World events and expected rates of improvement and development. Great Britain finished a respectable fourth in the medals table for the 2008 Beijing Olympics but a considerable distance behind third placed Russia.
And in Formula One, Ferrari have hit back following their US$100,000 fine regarding a breach of F1 rules, stating that the team must always come first. Felipe Massa was instructed to allow Fernando Alonso to pass him in the recent German Grand Prix in order to allow the Spanish driver to gain maximum points in his pursuit of the world title.
Ferrari’s one-two finish in Germany moved them to within 92 points of McLaren in the constructors’ championship and they are now odds of 7/1 with bet365 to finish the season on top of that list.