Manchester City

425 articles tagged with "Manchester City"

Sep 3, 2026

Manchester City spent a record £458m this summer, and Haaland is still their only striker

City broke their own transfer record twice and rebuilt an entire midfield. They came out of the window with one recognised centre-forward, and a net s...

Sep 2, 2026

The Premier League spent £3.48bn this summer, and the other four big leagues combined spent less

A record window closed at 11pm on Tuesday. The gross figure beat last year’s record by nearly £300m, and £2.17bn of it came straight back through sale...

Sep 1, 2026

Manchester City passed on Enzo Fernandez at £120m, and have agreed 140 million euros for him instead

Manchester City let Chelsea’s £120 million deadline lapse on 14 August. On the last day of the window they agreed 140 million euros for the same playe...

Aug 29, 2026

Atletico have given Alvarez until Sunday, and a deadline is the wrong tool for this

Julian Alvarez has not trained for three days and will not travel to Sevilla. Atletico’s chief executive says he is confused and struggling, and the c...

Aug 29, 2026

Cherki scored twice in five minutes, and Palace’s only goal of the season came off Donnarumma

Rayan Cherki’s two goals in five minutes settled a match City were never likely to lose, and Enzo Maresca has now taken six points from six.

Aug 28, 2026

Newcastle sold Tonali, Guimaraes and Gordon, and gave the No 6 shirt to a 24-year-old from Manchester City

Nico Gonzalez is Newcastle’s seventh signing of a summer spent replacing people. He cost around £50 million and inherits a shirt number with recent hi...

Aug 28, 2026

Arsenal drew Real Madrid and Bayern, and PSG got Barcelona and Manchester City

The 2026/27 Champions League league phase draw was made in Monaco on 27 August. Arsenal, beaten in the final in May, host Real Madrid and travel to Ba...

Aug 28, 2026

Palace have won one of their last ten against City, and that one was the FA Cup final

Pierre Sage’s first home league game kicks off at 12.30am IST on Saturday, with Marc Guehi back at Selhurst Park in a Manchester City shirt and Enzo M...

Aug 27, 2026

Everton passed on the £50m option, and Grealish now has five days to choose

Fabrizio Romano says the decision comes within days. Everton want another loan, Villa are the homecoming, and Manchester City want £300,000 a week off...

Aug 26, 2026

Manchester City have sold three midfielders this summer, and now have six days to sign Enzo Fernandez

Manchester City let Chelsea’s £120 million deadline for Enzo Fernandez pass twelve days ago. Fabrizio Romano says a formal bid is coming before the wi...

Aug 26, 2026

The Champions League draw is on Thursday, and four of the 36 places are still open

Monaco hosts the league-phase draw at 9.30pm IST on Thursday. Five English clubs are in the pot, PSG go in as back-to-back winners, and four ties on W...

Aug 25, 2026

Savinho left Manchester City as their record sale, and turned up at Tottenham with a different name

An initial £75 million, £10 million in add-ons and a five-year contract have taken the Brazilian winger from Manchester City to north London. No club...

Aug 24, 2026

Marmoush was an unused substitute on Sunday, and on Monday he was in London for a Tottenham medical

Tottenham have agreed a season-long loan for Omar Marmoush with a £50m option that becomes an obligation, four days after agreeing a deal for Savinho...

Aug 24, 2026

Bouaddi warmed up with Lille but did not play, and City are paying up to £86m for him

Lille turned down 60 million euros for Ayyoub Bouaddi in June. Two months and one World Cup later, Manchester City are paying 100 million.

Aug 23, 2026

Bournemouth had not lost in 18 league games, and Gvardiol beat them in stoppage time

Manchester City were losing at home with six minutes left of Enzo Maresca’s first league match in charge. Two Rayan Cherki assists turned it into a 2-...

Aug 21, 2026

Cancelo has won four of Europe’s top five leagues, and Barcelona got him for nothing

A free transfer, a contract to 2029, and a full-back who has now won the title in four of Europe’s five biggest leagues. Barcelona’s fifth signing of...

Aug 20, 2026

Nine Premier League clubs start with a new manager, and the last time it was this many was 1946-47

Maresca, Iraola, Alonso, Arbeloa, Sage, Rose, Glasner, Jaissle and O’Neil all take charge of their first league game this weekend. Opta say no top-fli...

Aug 18, 2026

The Premier League has spent £2.14bn before its first match, and a third of it went to other Premier League clubs

English clubs are £2.14bn into the summer window with the season still two days away, but almost £785m of that was paid by one Premier League club to...

Aug 17, 2026

Arsenal scored after 23 seconds, and Maresca’s Manchester City never recovered

Arsenal beat Manchester City 3-0 in Cardiff to win the Community Shield, and Riccardo Calafiori’s opener after 23 seconds is the fastest goal the comp...

Aug 17, 2026

Rodri is going to Barcelona for 76.5 million euros, with a year left on his City deal

Manchester City accepted Barcelona’s third bid over the weekend, 60 million up front and 16.5 million in add-ons, for the midfielder who won them the...

Aug 15, 2026

Manchester City let the 5pm deadline pass, and Enzo Fernandez stays at Chelsea

Chelsea gave Manchester City until 5pm on Friday to bid £120 million for Enzo Fernandez. No bid came, and Chelsea now expect the Argentina midfielder...

Aug 15, 2026

Maresca’s first match in charge is against the champions, and Arsenal have no Saliba

Arsenal and Manchester City open the English season in Cardiff on Sunday, 7.30pm IST. It is Enzo Maresca’s first competitive game since replacing Pep...

Aug 14, 2026

Savinho wants Tottenham, and City cannot sell him until Chelsea sell them Pedro Neto

The Brazilian sat out training on Thursday and City called it illness. The hold-up is not the fee, it is that City have nobody to replace him with yet...

Aug 14, 2026

City bought Reijnders for 46 million and are selling him for 52, one season later

Al Qadsiah have agreed a fee of around 52 million pounds for Tijjani Reijnders, who never settled at Manchester City. Brendan Rodgers gets him, and Ci...