City close on Valdes: Manchester City are set to sign Victor Valdes with the goalkeeper's move to Monaco on the brink of collapse, according to the Daily Star. The Spaniard is playing out his final season at Barcelona and was expected to join the French club as a free agent in the summer but a deadline to sign a binding pre-contract has now passed. The paper reports that Monaco owner Dmitry Rybolovlev has been angered by this and his club will now turn their attentions to Hannover’s Ron-Robert Zieler instead, allowing City to nip in and claim Valdes.