If Carlsberg did Transfer Deadline Days...

The August Transfer Window closed yesterday... and it was probably the best deadline day in the world... ever. From early morning... to early morning...

Abu Dhabi United Group declared to the world that they had bought Manchester City, and were willing and able to spend hundreds of millions of oil barrels to purchase success, starting with Dimitar Berbatov, Mario Gomez, and David Villa. In total, Man City had bid over 300 million Euros for different players. Outrageous. Crazy. Brilliant.

Berbatov's transfer became a tug-of-war for the course of the day, with Manchester United taking him for a medical and discussing personal terms before having received permission from Tottenham Hotspur (allegedly).

Manchester City however, made even more moves. And more waves. In the late evening they made an audacious bid to sign Robinho from under Chelsea's noses from Real Madrid. It was this transfer bid that made even the most optimisitc of fans a little sceptical. If an Abu Dhabi group had been willing to come in and finance Mark Hughes' pursuit of the Premier League title... why had they waited until the last day of the transfer window? And why also, have they put in some unbelievable transfer bids for players that seemed certain to be going elsewhere? Was it all smoke and mirrors? Did Abu Dhabi have the funds, but just merely wish to hype up their own purchase to encourage the fans? Gomez and Villa were going nowhere, Berbatov was only ever going to Man Utd, and Robinho and Scolari had spent all summer praising the other in the hope to link up together at Stamford Bridge. Perhaps... perhaps this was all just a publicity stunt. But... Chelsea never came in... And Robinho started crying.

Berbatov has been pencilled in the Manchester United team all summer by Sir Alex Ferguson, and will fit into that void that they have been missing up-front. Robinho however, seems like a luxury glamour purchase. How exactly he will fit into the Manchester City set-up is under debate. Will he work hard enough to be a wide player? Will he have to play off Jo? Two Brazilians up front with no Premier League experience is a risky, albeit flamboyant, plan of attack for Man City... but how effective will it be when the winter Manchester weather kicks in? With Man City vs Chelsea being their next game, fully expect Robinho to score the winner... but when things aren't going so well... expect Robinho to begin sulking again... and demand a move back to Brazil.