• Balotelli expected to sign five-year deal after £22.5m move • Milner deal could take 'another two or three days'

Mario Balotelli looks set to complete a £22.5m move from Internazionale to Manchester City in the next 48 hours, having departed Milan for Manchester with his agent Mino Raiola this morning, while Roberto Mancini said he also expected a deal to be completed for James Milner shortly.

"We are close with Balotelli," Mancini said. "Hopefully today or tomorrow. Mario is on his way here today. We need another two or three days for [the Milner] situation. We need everyone to be happy."

The City manager seemed to put an end to Craig Bellamy's time at Eastlands by suggesting he will not be included in his 25-man squad for the coming league season. "I have to choose 25," he added. "The rest must find another team. Craig is out of the list."

Raiola spent yesterday afternoon in Milan resolving the final details of an agreement with Inter's technical director, Marco Branca, and the club's lawyer Angelo Capellini. Personal terms have already been agreed, and the striker is expected to sign a five-year deal worth €3.5m (£2.875m) a year on completion of a medical at City's training ground today.

Milner, meanwhile, has been named in the Aston Villa caretaker-manager Kevin MacDonald's squad to play West Ham tomorrow. City are believed to be offering a player-plus-cash deal involving Stephen Ireland to meet Villa's £30m valuation of the player.