Manchester City: Sturridge Likely Gone

19-year-old Manchester City starlet Daniel Sturridge looks likely to leave Eastlands this summer after talks with the club have come to halt. Sturridge, he of six league goals in 2008-09, was reported to be asking for somewhere in the vicinity of a £40,000-a-week contract.

"We have made an offer which is a good offer for Daniel at this stage of his career and that was refused a couple of weeks back," Mark Hughes said in the Manchester Evening News.

Aston Villa and Chelsea look poised to make a play for Sturridge should he decide not to return to Manchester City for the 2009-10 Premiership campaign.