With fixtures still coming at the leisurely rate of one per week and no injuries to contend with, why bother changing a winning side?
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These are your Manchester City evening headlines on Sunday, July 24.
Haaland sends warning over Grealish partnership
Summer signing Erling Haaland reckons there is more to come from his link-up with Jack Grealish after marking his Manchester City debut with a winner against Bayern Munich.
Haaland only needed 12 minutes to get his account up and running against the Germans after being forced to wait for his much-anticipated introduction. Pep Guardiola won the race for Haaland this summer - and his signature cost the Premier League champions around £51million.
Despite scoring 85 goals in 88 games for Borussia Dortmund in two-and-a-half years, the forward had never tasted victory over Bayern until the early hours UK time. City won 1-0 against Bundesliga opponents and that meeting also offered up a warning to their rivals as to what to expect from Haaland and Grealish.
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Klopp compares Liverpool and City summer moves
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has compared his club's summer transfer business with City's as those two sides prepare to rekindle their mouth-watering battle for Premier League supremacy.
A single point separated them last season as City walked home with their fourth title in five campaigns and both managers have gone into the transfer market to strengthen this summer. Guardiola won the race for Norway star Haaland and has also signed England midfielder Kalvin Phillips.
Moving in the other direction are Gabriel Jesus, Raheem Sterling and Oleksandr Zinchenko as Guardiola sets sights on a new left-back with Brighton defender Marc Cucurella understood to be top of his shopping list. Liverpool and Klopp have made their own
With fixtures still coming at the leisurely rate of one per week and no injuries to contend with, why bother changing a winning side?
Paul Scholes has admitted he fancies Liverpool to win the title, despite Erling Haaland's impressive Premier League debut on Sunday.
Kevin De Bruyne expects both himself and Manchester City to improve after putting a difficult first game of the season behind them.
Pep Guardiola said Manchester City's second goal at West Ham belonged to Jack Grealish for the work he put into orchestrating it.
Wayne Rooney has tipped Manchester City to retain the Premier League title, and believes Erling Haaland will give them an advantage over Liverpool.
Pep Guardiola is confident that Jack Grealish will enjoy a better second season with Manchester City than his first.
Here are your Manchester City headlines for Saturday, August 6
After months of transfer business, Manchester City are finally back in Premier League action and will begin their title defence against West Ham United.
Left-back has been Manchester City's problem position for a number of years now.
Pep Guardiola could not confirm that Bernardo Silva will stay at Manchester City this season amid strong interest from Barcelona.
Manchester City midfielder Rodri believes that Liverpool won't be the Blues' only title challengers this season, but he trusts City's transfer business to give them the advantage.
On Saturday the world caught a first glimpse of how the rivalry between Manchester City and Liverpool will look this season, with the latter triumphing 3-1 in the Community Shield.
Brighton & Hove Albion's stance on Marc Cucurella remains unchanged, despite the left-back handing in a transfer request earlier today, according to an emerging report.
Phil Foden has opened up on his first experiences training with Erling Haaland, after missing Manchester City's pre-season tour, predicting that the new number nine will be hard to stop this season.
Pep Guardiola has said that Manchester City's new signings will have to adapt their game if they want to succeed at the club.
Erling Haaland made his Manchester City debut against Bayern Munich on Sunday. Despite the strength of the opposition, it took just 12 minutes for him to get off the mark in his new sky blue jersey. The Norwegian scored the only goal of the match in a 1-0 win for the Etihad club and Jack Grealish was the man to assist him, with the pair already developing a relationship on the field.
Borussia Dortmund star Jude Bellingham said he will always love Manchester City new boy Erling Haaland.