straight to your inboxManchester City fans have named Kalidou Koulibaly as the player who should be the club's top transfer target this summer, but are split on other issues in the window.It's been a strange summer for City in the transfer market.
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straight to your inboxManchester City's map for the 2020/21 Premier League season has been revealed following the release of the fixture list on Thursday. The scheduled start of the campaign at the Etihad Stadium against Aston Villa is set to be postponed, meaning the first games will be away matches against Wolves and Leeds United either side of the hosting of Leicester City.
straight to your inboxManchester City fans have named Kalidou Koulibaly as the player who should be the club's top transfer target this summer, but are split on other issues in the window.It's been a strange summer for City in the transfer market.
straight to your inboxGareth Southgate says Phil Foden has slotted right into the England set-up after handing the attacking midfielder his first international start. The Manchester City youngster started for England against Iceland in the Nations League with all the focus on how he transitions his impressive club form onto the international stage.
straight to your inboxAurelio De Laurentiis admits he regrets not selling Kalidou Koulibaly sooner.The commanding Napoli centre-back has been strongly linked with a move to Manchester City this summer, with De Laurentiis admitting the player can leave if his asking price is met. Yet Napoli are unlikely to get as good a price for Koulibaly as an offer they have already turned down previously.
straight to your inboxThere are any number of reasons for to be cautious about a Manchester City deal for Lionel Messi.It remains unclear how many millions of pounds it will cost to sign the Barcelona forward amid a dispute in his contract, and even if they were to sign him there are questions over how it would affect Pep Guardiola and the City squad.
straight to your inboxSome Manchester City fans believe Lionel Messi is definitely on his way to the Etihad this summer after Pep Guardiola was spotted in Barcelona on Friday.News broke earlier this week that Messi wants to call time on his Barcelona career following their disappointing end to the season, which saw them lose out to Real Madrid in the La Liga title race and also lose 8-2 to Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-finals.City are one of the few clubs that could realistically
Messi has officially told Barcelona that he wishes to leave the club.“Announce Messi” immediately started trending on Twitter, as fans from pretty much every club in the world started getting their hopes up.But while we’d all like to see arguably the greatest player of all time play for the team we support, the cold hard finances of it all mean that it’s not going to happen for most of us.Only the richest of the rich, the one per cent of the one per cent can realistically afford Messi.
at Burnley is set to be postponed.That means Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side will commence their campaign at home against Crystal Palace on September 19th after being allowed a 30-day break between competitive matches.
straight to your inboxHere are the Manchester United morning headlines for Thursday, August 20.The Premier League has released the fixtures for the upcoming 2020/21 campaign.Despite only just finishing their campaign, United already know who and when their opponents will be over the next nine months.
straight to your inboxHere are the Manchester City morning headlines for Thursday, August 20.With Claudio Bravo having left Manchester City, the club have moved to secure further back-up in goal for the 2020/21 season.It’s Scott Carson, who was with the club last season too.
straight to your inbox Manchester City will kick off their Premier League title challenge a week late, with an away game at Wolves. The Blues were handed a home fixture with Aston Villa for the opening weekend, but they and neighbours Manchester United have both been given an extra break due to their involvement in the European competitions.
straight to your inboxManchester United fans have demanded the club make some new signings to deal with the early fixture congestion after the 2020/21 Premier League fixtures were announced.Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side are due to begin the new Premier League season with an away trip to face Burnley at Turf Moor, although the match is set to be postponed, before welcoming Crystal Palace to Old Trafford and finishing the opening month with an away trip to Brighton.
thepools.com, the country's oldest established betting platform, may be based in Liverpool but they still make City Evens favourites to be crowned champions, in line with all the other major bookies outlets.Liverpool are odds against 7/4 to retain their title , with Manchester United third favourites at 8/1 .The reasons are clear. City were back to back champions before last season's freakish campaign by Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool in which they won 26 of their first 27 matches.City have
straight to your inbox Manchester United's first Premier League game of the season away at Burnley will be postponed to ensure they have a 30-day gap between seasons.
Premier League set to reveal the schedule for all 380 matches on Thursday morning.This will include all the fixtures on the opening day of the season, all the big derbies, the Boxing Day fixtures, the matches for the final day, and all the others in between.The new Premier League season will kick-off on September 12, but it is being reported that Manchester City and Manchester United will not play on the opening weekend, however, this is yet to be confirmed by the Premier League.Glenn Thompson,
straight to your inboxManchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne has been announced as the Premier League Player of the Season following a spectacular individual campaign.The Belgian saw off competition from Liverpool trio Trent Alexander-Arnold, Jordan Henderson and Sadio Mane to clinch the honour, with Southampton's Danny Ings and Burnley's Nick Pope also nominated.De Bruyne enjoyed an incredible campaign, despite City finishing well adrift of champions Liverpool, having equalled Thierry
Manchester City midfielder enjoyed arguably his best campaign yet at the Etihad, scoring a personal best of 13 league goals, and equalling the record for 20 assists in a season. De Bruyne claimed his 20th assist on the final day to move level with former Arsenal hero Thierry Henry in registering the most amount of assists in a single season.
straight to your inbox Manchester City fans vented their anger after seeing their side suffer at the hands of VAR in the Champions League once again. Pep Guardiola’s side found themselves on the wrong side of the Video Assistant Referee as they fell at the quarter-final stages to Lyon in Portugal.