A bibbed Samir bites his bottom lip, plotting his next move

Samir shows off his caricature from the City Kicks website

French midfielder in good spirits at training

Brian Kidd forcing Samir to pull his socks up.

Do you think you could catch Samir?

Samir shares a joke with the England defender.

Samir looks less than thrilled in this shot!

There's rarely five minutes at Carrington where a smile or a joke isn't cracked.

Though the players are drawn from the four corners of the globe, morale is at an all-time high in the City ranks at the moment.

Perhaps Nasri is remembering his match-winning performance against Southampton on the opening day in this shot.

City EDS manager has Samir looking a bit frightened!

Ladies, form an orderly queue...

Pablo and Yaya clowning around.

Whatever City's Argentine connection are up to here has got Samir beaming.