That's that for a while then. The transfer window has slammed shut - on the gossip columns as well as the market itself, at least until we throw it wide open once more in the depths of winter.

Not surprisingly, City figure prominently in the analyses and round-ups that dominate both heavyweights and red tops today, and you can tell sports desks would have liked to have enjoyed a week's added time.

Despite the Blues signing no fewer than six quality players - no need to list 'em, you know who they are - the Guardian "window shopping" list laments that we missed out on "(Fernando) Torres and Wolfsburg's Edin Dzeko."

There's just no pleasing some people. And Tony Cascarino, in his Times commentary, ruminates on how difficult it will be for Roberto Mancini to finalise his nominated Barclays Premier League squad for the season.

The former Republic striker argues: "City have so many good players that Roque Santa Cruz must be a borderline inclusion in their 25 today." We'll see, but Robinho's exit does leave a bit of a vacancy up front, Cas.

Jason Burt in the Telegraph reckons that Roberto has "propped up" the transfer market virtually single-handed! He writes: "Without (City) the market would have been fairly dormant." Maybe we can get a grant towards that?

There are three kinds of journos: those who are numerate, and those who aren't. Those reporters ready to risk their maths reckon that City have saved more than £25million by transferring Robinho to Milan. Their figures.

Elsewhere, Matthew Dunn's Express column takes Colin Murray to task for presenting the highlights of City's game at Sunderland way down a deliberately random pecking order of Match of the Day 2 at the weekend.

He says that penitent Colin "promised the format would be for one night only and rightly so - if nobody bothers to put things in the right order, sense nobody any can it of make." LOL! Done and dusted, Dunny.