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Capello big fan of Man City plans

England coach Fabio Capello admits he's a big fan of what Manchester City are doing.

Capello is set to name five City players - Joe Hart, Joleon Lescott, Gareth Bary, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Adam Johnson - today in his squad for the Euro 2012 qualifier with Montenegro, while James Milner would have been in the side if he were not suspended.

The England boss, ready to select Wayne Rooney despite fears over his form and fitness, believes the City players will have a huge impact.

"It's important that so many of the players are at City because they train every day together, they play together regularly in the matches," said Capello.

"The national teams that won the titles, the World Cup the Euros, they had something like this.

"Spain, for example, had players from three teams, seven from Barcelona, three from Real Madrid and one from Villarreal.

"When Italy won the World Cup in 2006, they had a lot of players from Juventus."

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