We haven't had any contact with Manchester City regarding Andy Todd and we are very keen to keep the players who are under contract for next season.

There has been no contact with Manchester United whatsoever in regard to Steven Reid and, as far as we are concerned, it's complete newspaper speculation.

Most people view Manchester as a manufacturing city, still. We have been working over the last 30 years to shed that image. With a project such as this coming into the city, I think it will really help develop that image that Manchester really is a college town.

If that had occurred in the city of Manchester, or in the city of Normandy when I was chief, it would have been a bad chase.

[Temuri] Ketsbaia is their player-manager and they also have Georgi Kinkladze, who was excellent at Manchester City a few years ago and even at Derby as well.

We lost at Manchester City and we didn't deserve it, we lost at Manchester United and didn't deserve it, we lost today and did deserve it.