MAURICIO POCHETTINO is ready to unleash a young Lionel Messi on Gillingham in the EFL Cup tonight. When you have a year left, in January, you are allowed to talk to other clubs and sign a pre-contract or have an agreement. thdrawal from Tottenham gameSIX APPEALLiverpool hammer Tottenham U23 6-2 with Cameron Brannagan and Kevin Stewart shining for RedsKANE K. They have to work, they have to show themselves with a certain kind of attitude towards negative moments. Toure has appeared in just one of Citys eight games this season and was surprisingly missed out of the clubs 25-man Champions League squad. Yet Moyes feels Van Aanholt could have been spared all the embarrassment, had Sunderland been notified of a problem earlier. He signed a new deal in April 2013 - but only after his Russian representative had made claims about how little his client was valued at the club. Xabi is one hell of a player, whose passes have a great range and accuracy. I am in a moment of my career where I feel very mature. On the day Yaya announced his international retirement, the curtain looks to have finally come down for him at City too.