The news of Aaron Ramsey's injury broke just short of a week ago and, as is the case with other injuries to City players in recent years, it's seems like getting blood out of a stone is easier than getting definitive statements as to how long a player is going to be missing.

To be fair to Erol Bulut, he did say after Saturday's game that Ramsey had ruptured a knee tendon, but gave the impression that it was hard to say much more until it was known whether he would need an operation or not.

It may not be the most reliable source, but I just Googled "recovery times for a ruptured knee tendon" and the consensus seems to be that you're looking at something like five to eight months, possibly longer in older patients. As a professional sportsman, you would have thought that Ramsey would be at the lower end of that timescale, but, even if he is, that's not going to be much of the season left when he's able to play again.

If Bulut was right about the nature of the injury (I see no reason to believe he wasn't), it looks like we're looking at months rather than weeks out for Ramsey.