I have watched the last few days with quiet bemusement. To watch so many people tie themselves in knots was quite funny. It was as if the supporters of the Big Four were two-year-olds and they'd had their rattles taken away. Poor babies.

And to make it even more amusing pangs of unvarnished jealousy from Dave Whelan at Wigan and Al-Fayed at Fulham. Even more curious, the head of the PFA Gordon Taylor jumped in on the side of the Big Four.

It's ok for the Big Four to have money and drop £30 million on a player every now and again but we just can't have City signing world class players. That is too much.

City have been the main story in football for a week and as predicted now that the Kaka deal, which was never going to happen, has fallen through of course the rags supporting media is having a field day.

Even some of the better City blogs have fallen for this feast and famine cycle. It was never going to happen. Anyone with even a smidgen of knowledge of Italian football, and AC Milan in particular, could have told you that.

Great, truly great players do not move in the January transfer window. Hence my prediction at the start of January that we would not see any of the mega-stars move to City this month. The one megastar who had fallen off the radar, and I'll talk more about them at the end of the month, has unfortunately finally found his form these past few months so even that one seems unlikely now.

The peculiar thing is that really City don't need Kaka. Yes of course he's one of the top five players in the world and I would be delighted for him to have joined the club but who were we going to sit to accommodate him? City could upgrade at every other position first before we needed a player in the Kaka role.

Craig Bellamy for example. Once dubbed gloriously, and alas I do not know the attribution, as "the nutter with the putter" the Welshman remains exhibit A in one of the worse selection decisions ever made in a major final; the decision of Rafa Benitez not to start him in the Champions League final against an aging and slow AC Milan back four.

Bellamy is fast, he's obnoxious and he scores goals. He's a good Premier League striker and his pace fits perfectly with the flowing football and spectacular passing that comes out of the City midfield.

If De Jong joins from Hamburg then City effectively get two signings because Kompany drops back into the back four. We still need an experienced goalkeeper, another central defender, a left winger and possibly a target man. Jo should be loaned out to another team to find his fitness, confidence and goal scoring touch but we gave up way too early on Bianchi and I'd prefer we didn't on the young Brazilian.

In each case look to clubs willing to sell for whatever reason and players that have issues at a club. These will be the targets that City will be able to pick up this transfer window. There are enough good players out there that fit this profile and can help City build a strong squad. Once the team has quality and depth then you can start to add better players. I hate to use United as an example of how to do things, but their squad building is the model from a practical standpoint.

And let me throw in another player; Joe Cole. Yes I know he's injured, out for at least 6 months and will not be fully back to normal for at least 15. He also happens to play, brilliantly, the single hardest position to find great players, that of left midfield. If we have the money why not look to buy Cole now. Under normal circumstances Chelsea would never sell Cole. But an injured Cole does nothing for their team in the short term and Chelsea are said to have to sell before they buy. This is a situation where we can use the wealth of the company in a way that no other team can match.