Man City move for David Villa and Mario Gomez

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Manchester City's prospective new owner has revealed the club havelodged bids for Valencia striker David Villa and Stuttgart forwardMario Gomez as well as Dimitar Berbatov ahead of tonight's transferdeadline.
DrSulaiman Al-Fahim, who is heading the Abu Dhabi United Group's takeoverof the Barclays Premier League club, said that he is 'hopeful' a dealfor Tottenham's Berbatov can be agreed before midnight after a fee ofmore than £30million was agreed.
However, Villa and Gomez are also on the radar.
'Iam hopeful about Berbatov, but I need to speak to our colleagues inEngland to see what the latest is,' he said. 'We have bids in for threeplayers. There is Berbatov, but there is also David Villa and MarioGomez. We have bids in for Villa and Gomez and I am waiting to hearwhether we have been successful with those (offers).
'Funds are available, and transfers such as these show we are serious.'
Villa was top scorer at Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland, netting four goals in Spain's triumphant campaign.
Gomezscored at the weekend in Stuttgart's 2-0 win Hannover in theBundesliga, and struck 22 goals in all competitions last season.
Al-Fahimadmitted that City are in a race against time to bring in playersbefore the transfer deadline in a few hours' time, but added thatsignificant investment is sure to follow in the winter transfer window.
'Thethree players we are trying to bring in are good players, but it hasbeen difficult because we only started (takeover) negotiations a coupleof weeks ago,' Al-Fahim added.
'We haven't had a lot of time, but our idea is to bring in more players during the next transfer window.
'Idon't want to put a figure on what will be available (for squadstrengthening), like £100million, because more than that might beneeded.'
Al-Fahim also gave his backing to manager Mark Hughes, who is set to benefit from the huge transfer kitty available.
'Weare happy with him,' Al-Fahim added. 'We need to sit down with him anddiscuss his targets. He has our support and we will give him theauthority to sign the players he wants to sign.'