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Man City prepared to listen to offers for quintet

Manchester City will reportedly listen to January offers for a quintet of highly-paid players.

Emmanuel Adebayor, Wayne Bridge, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jo and Roque Santa Cruz are believed to all be expendable and The Sun suggests that City are willing to take a hit of around £50million.

The five players were originally purchased for a total of £80million but do not feature regularly under Roberto Mancini and the club is now ready to shake up their squad after a poor run in recent weeks.

Adebayor is believed to be on offer for £12million, about half the price City paid Arsenal in the summer of 2009, whilst Santa Cruz, who was purchased for £18million from Blackburn, could go for as little as £4million.

It is also believed that goalkeeper Shay Given will be put up for sale but the club will take no less than the £7million they paid for him.

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