Few players, too, can afford to do what Mexico striker Nery Castillo has just done and buy himself out of his contract at Shakhtar Donetsk in order to make a present of himself to Manchester City.

很少有球员会像墨西哥前锋卡斯蒂略这样，为了能来到曼城而买断自己在顿涅茨克矿工队的合同。

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City's response was to throw on Mexican forward Nery Castillo and Ecuador striker Felipe Caicedo to try to salvage something from the match.

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We have got Elano, Stephen Ireland and Nery Castillo, who can all play in the hole behind the main striker, and he plays the way that gets the best out of them.

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