Its in City's interest as if they ever have to try and sell or play (desperate times) him it makes sense that he has played first team football for a while. I think they tend to hire people on ridiculous wages and are pretty used to covering a high % of wages, didn't they even do that for...
Sounds like a lot of wages for a left back. Defo need to replace Painter as he is out weakest link but would sooner see us buy some speedy youngster who won't want massive wages and doesn't have an ego!