Manchester City News and Analysis

5 transfers Champions League clubs need to make in summer 2025

22Mar

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5 transfers Champions League clubs need to make in summer 2025

Winning the Champions League is one thing, but staying on top and being a legitimate title contender year in and year out is another thing entirely and requires making the right signings at the right times. Here are five signings that the traditional heavyweights - and new contenders - in the Champions League need to make in the summer 2025 transfer window in order to improve their chances of making the leap or building a true dynasty. Trent Alexander-Arnold to Real Madrid Listen, Real Madrid needed to sign another right back five years ago, and while Dani Carvajal proved a lot of Madrid fans wrong by showing he has plenty left in the tank last season, he will be coming off an ACL tear in 2025/26 at the age of 33 at a physically demanding position. Real Madrid need a new right back...

Manchester City need to keep letting Jeremy Doku cook

16Mar

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Manchester City need to keep letting Jeremy Doku cook

Manchester City suffered another disappointing result on Saturday afternoon, drawing 2-2 with fellow European football hopefuls Brighton despite receiving goals form both star forwards Erling Haaland and Omar Marmoush. But even though the former Bundesliga superstar found the back of the net, neither were the best players on the pitch - not even for Man City alone. No, that distinction belongs to a former Ligue 1 star, winger Jeremy Doku. For the second time in his last four Premier League games, the Belgian international completed a jaw-dropping 15 completed dribbles, reminding fans around the world that it isn't just Lamine Yamal who has a compelling case for being the best dribbler in the world. Jeremy Doku is the Premier League's best dribbler Doku was irresistible on the ball ...

Man United, Man City competing for one of Europe’s most underrated stars

8Mar

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Man United, Man City competing for one of Europe’s most underrated stars

Manchester United and Manchester City have both performed well below expectations in the 2024/25 Premier League season thus far, though that means very different things for these two clubs. Man City are used to winning the Premier League title, so their status as a club not even guaranteed to reach the Champions League is, in a way, just as much of a shock as it is to see Man United still toiling in the bottom half of the league table despite a very active summer transfer window - and a new ownership group and manager at the helm. Both Manchester United and Manchester City could use a splash in the summer 2025 transfer window, and the two Premier League powerhouses are headed back to the Portuguese top flight for a potential boost. Trincao could be the next Bruno Fernandes in Englan...

3 Manchester City stars who are clearly finished at the top level

3Mar

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3 Manchester City stars who are clearly finished at the top level

Although Manchester City have picked things up domestically after a busy January transfer window with clean sheet wins over Newcastle and Tottenham - and an FA Cup victory over pesky underdogs Plymouth - their recent resounding defeats to Real Madrid and Liverpool are a sobering reminder that the squad still needs an overall in order to return to the very summit it reached in 2023 as treble winners. There are some big names in the Manchester City squad who were once among the world's best but are now struggling to prove that they can still be key players for a team that aims to win the Premier League and Champions League. Here are three of them. Kevin De Bruyne It is sad to see how Kevin De Bruyne has fallen in 2024/25, as injuries have accelerated an inevitable decline that may not e...

Grading Omar Marmoush to Manchester City transfer based on fee, quality, fit, and potential

17Jan

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Grading Omar Marmoush to Manchester City transfer based on fee, quality, fit, and potential

Omar Marmoush did not play for Eintracht Frankfurt in their 2-0 home win over Borussia Dortmund, as he was preparing for his transfer to Premier League giants Manchester City, who are at risk of not finishing in the top four after winning each of the last four league titles. According to Fabrizio Romano, the total package for Marmoush will amount to 80 million euros, as Manchester City, as expected, paid premium dollar to beat out the likes of Liverpool to the Egyptian star forward. Let's grade the deal from a Manchester City perspective. Fee An 80 million euro transfer fee is reasonable for Marmoush, as he is 25-year-old attacking player in the middle of the best season of his career. He's leaving a team that has Champions League football on the line and has won the Europa League ...

5 right back replacements for Manchester City after Kyle Walker transfer to AC Milan

17Jan

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5 right back replacements for Manchester City after Kyle Walker transfer to AC Milan

According to a report from Fabrizio Romano, Serie A side AC Milan are in advanced talks to acquire Kyle Walker from Manchester City and have agreed to personal terms on a new deal that will last through the 2026/27 season. With Walker set to exit the Etihad after a poor European Championship and an even worse first half of the 2024/25 Premier League season, it's time to take a look at five replacements Manchester City could sign at right back. Achraf Hakimi, PSG Achraf Hakimi would be a dream signing for Manchester City, because he can play as a right back or an inverted left back, with the latter being a positional role that Pep Guardiola perfected in the modern game. PSG's best player now that Kylian Mbappe is gone, Hakimi's talents are being wasted on a dysfunctional team that c...

3 reasons why Manchester City want to sign Andrea Cambiaso from Juventus

16Jan

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3 reasons why Manchester City want to sign Andrea Cambiaso from Juventus

With the signings of young center backs Vitor Reis and Abdukodir Khusanov, as well as Eintracht Frankfurt breakout superstar Omar Marmoush on the way, Manchester City have now focused their attention on Juventus left back Andrea Cambiaso. With Manchester City outside the top four and rapidly descending after winning the Premier League in each of the four seasons, Pep Guardiola and Co. have not messed around in the January 2025 transfer window with providing this sagging squad with the reinforcements it needs. According to renowned transfer insider Fabrizio Romano, Manchester City will have direct discussions with Juventus on Friday regarding a transfer that could take place in either January or June. Already, per Fab, Cambiaso and Man City have had positive contract discussions be...

How Omar Marmoush would fit into the Manchester City starting lineup

16Jan

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How Omar Marmoush would fit into the Manchester City starting lineup

Manchester City have been the most disappointing team in European football this season, falling all the way to sixth place in the Premier League where they are tied on points with Aston Villa and just a point ahead of underdogs Bournemouth. It's still a relatively respectable position in an increasingly competitive Premier League, but it is a far cry from their standard as perennial champions since 2020/21. They have suffered several humiliating defeats in the past couple of months, necessitating an aggressive transfer approach that has already netted them one of the best signings of the winter window, 20-year-old center back sensation Abdukodir Khusanov of RC Lens. Manchester City are closing in on a signing that may not be as big of a bargain, but, in terms of overall impact, es...

Manchester City may have already made the best signing of the January 2025 transfer window

15Jan

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Manchester City may have already made the best signing of the January 2025 transfer window

Manchester City are being aggressive in the January 2025 transfer window out of necessity, as their collapse since the injury to Ballon d'Or winner Rodri has been so catastrophic that not even their biggest haters could have predicted such an abrupt demise from a team that was the most dominant in their league over the last five years - even above Bayern Munich in Germany. Pep Guardiola has stood shocked at the state of his squad, as a poor summer transfer window in which Manchester City made an aging and rapidly declining midfield even more inadequate with the addition of Ilkay Gundogan has come back around to bite them badly. There are issues all over the squad. Manchester City don't have a supplemental goal-scorer alongside Erling Haaland, their midfield is too old, and their defe...