Well, we've gone and done it again.

Wednesday's deadline for submitting a squad to the Premier League in accordance with their new rules has generated lots of reaction in this morning's papers.

City, like every other top-flight club, have stuck to the stipulations laid down but according to Paul Jiggins in The Sun we along with Arsenal "...helped turn the Premier League's brave new dawn into a farce last night."

It seems that we have disappointed some by not kicking anyone out, and instead "City easily kept inside the new 25-man squad limit." Having been "tipped to have a team of rejects" we did not leave out a single star. Sorry.

It's worth remembering that only yesterday, Roque Santa Cruz was due to be consigned to the "football wasteland", but he was actually named in our 25-man squad. For a measured assessment of yesterday's announcements across all 20 Premier League clubs, go to the article by David Conn in The Guardian.

The recurrent theme of home-grown players crops up in many of the articles to feature Gareth Barry this morning, with Henry Winter in the Telegraph pointing out that, "At least Barry is enjoying life at City, particularly with the dressing room filling with English players like Joe Hart, James Milner and Adam Johnson."

Joe Hart was also put up in front of the media on England duty, and his diplomatic skills have not gone unnoticed. As Ian Herbert puts it in the Independent - "The question 'Are you pleased Shay is staying?" is an invidious one, which invites another of those diplomatic replies of his – "It's great," Hart says, without a hint of irony – though the 23-year-old has been buffeted enough by the vagaries of the top-flight game in the past two seasons for the sympathy for his club-mate to have its limits."