Desperately clinging onto Ozil like he's not just a German Walcott.
I think, by now, they expected that contingent of Ox, Gibbs, Walcott and whoever else it was, to have become their "(bought) Class of '92". In reality, they hope and hope until one day they realise their prospects are cracking on a bit.
I don't even know what will happen to them. Let's be honest, they'll need to do what we're doing - the lot of them. No one needs to sell any more, and all of a sudden the switch will flick and people will say "haha you have to sign people because your youth team is shit", and promoting will be the new 'transfer record'.
You'd surely think City's sheiks would be saying "Why did we spent the time and money on the Etihad campus if we're just going to buy everyone?"