Kasper Schmeichel has been handed a new 3-year contract that trebles his earnings. The City keeper, who has conceded just 1 goal in 4 games thus far, was apparently one of the Premiership’s lowest earners on £1500 a week.

Fantasy Managers have been quick to jump on the City defensive bandwagon by snapping up the budget buy keeper. However, it’s worth considering that this new deal could well be a sweetner for the young Schmeichel, as City’s number one, Andreas Isaksson, could well return after the international break. It would make sense that Sven would seal the future of his new young keeper before relegating him to the bench. If Schmeichel concedes at Blackburn today we could see an awful lot of Fantasy Managers forced to shop for a keeper.