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City set to play a summer regeneration game
The tale of Kevin de Bruyne’s imminent departure from Manchester City took another twist after he revealed he’d received no offer to stay...

davidjwalker1
Apr 258 min read
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Rumours of City’s demise have been greatly exaggerated
The unseemly haste to write Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City obituary was a contemptible concoction comprising amnesia, ignorance, spite...

davidjwalker1
Feb 238 min read
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Pep still fishing for titles even without Rod
When karma finally came crashing through Arsenal’s bus blockade and ‘Johnny, Johnny Stones’ swept in Manchester City’s 98th minute...

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Sep 27, 20248 min read
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Less means more and more for City
The boring, predictable and outrageous notion that Manchester City ‘buy’ success, took yet another pounding when the summer transfer...

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Sep 5, 20247 min read
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Pep – Will he stay or will he go?
As he enters his ninth and – as things stand – final season at the Etihad, what could possibly tempt Pep Guardiola to extend his time at...

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May 27, 20246 min read
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Numbers stack up nicely for City’s arrivals, departures and remainers
There’s transfer windows and then there’s transfer windows, but has there ever been one with more significant arrivals and departures –...
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Aug 16, 20235 min read
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City speculate to accumulate as well as seeing stars graduate
Until Phil Foden’s emergence from Manchester City’s Football Academy there were plenty of doubters, all too quick to cast aspersions on...
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Aug 10, 20236 min read
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Auf Wiedersehen Kapitan Wunderbar
It was the news Manchester City fans feared. Less than two weeks after captaining his team to the pinnacle of European and English...
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Jun 24, 20234 min read
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City's Triple Turkish Delight despite shameful UEFA
With midnight approaching in the humidity of Istanbul’s Ataturk Olympic Stadium, a tsunami of emotions flooded out of the pores of each...
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Jun 18, 202310 min read
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City must hammer home treble advantage
Manchester City can clinch a treble on Wednesday night as they battle to be Champions of England three seasons in a row. It wouldn’t be...
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May 1, 20236 min read
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Hey Jude, Rafael, Bernardo, Ilkay and…
Having already bagged the Net Spend Trophy 2022 with transfer profits ranging from £91m-£125m (depending on which figures you believe),...
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Jan 23, 20235 min read
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Pep’s winning the wars in spite of VAR
Hate is such a definitive term, an all encompassing emotion with no leeway for misinterpretation, no turning back from a position of...
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Jan 23, 20234 min read
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Anyone up for City’s Net Spend Trophy parade?
Pep Guardiola is on record as saying it. Khaldoon Al Mubarak states it unequivocally in his end of season reviews every year. Ferran...
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Jan 21, 20235 min read
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City hope for a transfer window Silva lining
Every Manchester City supporter is desperately hoping Bernardo Silva will still be at the Etihad when the summer transfer window closes....
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Jan 21, 20236 min read
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True perfection has to be imperfect for Pep
Pep Guardiola refused to take the bait following City’s sensational 5-0 Champions League demolition of Sporting Lisbon. He’d been asked...
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Jan 20, 20234 min read
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The team with no nine
Long before a heart condition threatened to curtail Sergio Aguero’s career, it was conventional wisdom that Manchester City required a...
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Jan 20, 20236 min read
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City lost but nobody died at the Etihad
The legendary Bill Shankly is accredited as saying: “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that...
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Jan 19, 20236 min read
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Ravenous City put Premier League three-peat on the menu
‘Have the lambs stopped screaming?’ It’s a chilling line delivered by serial killer Hannibal ‘The Cannibal’ Lecter in the famous 1991...
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Jan 19, 20237 min read
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City are ready to battle opponents both on and off the field
It appears to be only a matter of time before FIFA announce a transfer ban on Manchester City. Rumours abound that football’s ultra...
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Jan 18, 20235 min read
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‘It’s our year’
'It’s Our Year!’ For once the proclamations coming out of Anfield were right. It is indeed ‘their year’, but such conversational...
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Jan 17, 20235 min read
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