Wayne Rooney names his only concern for Man City vs Real Madrid

Wayne Rooney will manage England at Soccer Aid for Unicef at Old Trafford this September. England's all-time top scorer will take to the Old Trafford dugout alongside Sam Allardyce, who has been named co-manager, while David Seaman has been appointed goalkeeping coach.

straight to your inbox Pep Guardiola said that the team will discuss what went wrong in a hotel meeting after their Champions League crash against Lyon. The Manchester City manager was asked about Raheem Sterling ’s astonishing miss – which would have made it 2-2 – but Guardiola appeared to broaden it out into a post-mortem on the whole performance, which was littered with errors.

straight to your inboxPep Guardiola refused to comment on the VAR decisions that went against Manchester City during their Champions League quarter-final defeat to Lyon.Maxwel Cornet opened the scoring for the French side in the first-half before Kevin De Bruyne finally levelled proceedings after the interval.City should have been ahead but Raheem Sterling missed an open goal from five yards out which sparked a counter-attack from Lyon.Moussa Dembele raced clear and appeared to trip Aymeric

straight to your inbox Ferran Torres is expected to have his medical today (Tuesday) before completing a £21million move to Manchester City. The Valencia winger cannot fly to Manchester to finalise the move due to the travel restrictions placed on anyone coming to the UK from Spain.

straight to your inboxReal Madrid's Militao confident ahead of City clashReal Madrid defender Eder Militao has made some bullish comments ahead of their trip to Manchester for Friday night’s Champions League meeting.Pep Guardiola’s men boast a 2-1 advantage from the Bernabeu, and the La Liga champions will be without club captain Sergio Ramos after his sending off in the first leg.Militao is set to feature in Ramos’ place and is confident of Los Blancos’ chances of turning the tie around.

straight to your inboxHere are the Manchester United evening headlines for Sunday, August 2.Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney believes that Sir Alex Ferguson got it tactically wrong during both the 2009 and 2011 Champions League finals.The Reds were defeated in both games by Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona, losing 2-0 in 2009 and 3-1 at Wembley two years later.And Rooney, who scored United’s equaliser in the 2011 final, believes the club should have approached both games in a more pragmatic

straight to your inboxHere are the Manchester City evening headlines for Sunday, August 2Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney believes that Manchester City star Kevin De Bruyne is one of the three best players on the planet.Rooney lined up against De Bruyne in two Machester derbies, losing one and drawing one, but lost 3-1 against City after he had joined Everton.

Kevin De Bruyne on the field. And the Manchester United legend believes that his former Manchester City foe is one of the three best players on the planet at the moment.

straight to your inbox Bayern Munich director Oliver Kahn has admitted that Manchester City ’s victory in over-turning Uefa’s European ban has made it tougher for Bayern to win the Champions League. And the former Germany goalkeeper called for tougher financial fair play (FFP) rules to “get more balanced competition”.

straight to your inboxWayne Rooney believes Sir Alex Ferguson's tactics in the 2009 and 2011 Champions League finals were wrong.United went into the 2009 final in Rome as defending champions but were beaten despite having early chances, with goals from Samuel Eto'o and Lionel Messi securing a 2-0 win for Barcelona.

straight to your inboxRyan Giggs says Manchester United need to improve their strength in depth if they are to challenge next season.United are on a high after they qualified for next season's Champions League with a fine run of form in the second half of the season.Yet, in the final few games United started to look a little jaded before they managed to beat Leicester City to secure their place in the top-four.Speaking to Webby and O'Neill, United legend Giggs argued it was difficult for Ole

straight to your inboxNew details of Manchester City's 2020/21 away kit appear to have been leaked as the club prepare to release the new strip on Monday.City will unveil their new Puma away shirt at 8am on Monday according to their website, and it is expected to be the black and navy blue 'architecture' design that has been 'leaked' previously.

straight to your inboxManchester United and Manchester City could go head to head to try and sign French left-back Rayan Ait-Nouri.That is according to FootMercato, who say the Angers defender, 19, has attracted plenty of interest across Europe, and recently visited both United and City to look around their facilities and speak to people at the club.The report says Ait-Nouri has returned to France to assess his options, and both clubs are prepared to make a formal offer to sign him in the

straight to your inboxRio Ferdinand has revealed how both he and Wayne Rooney were proven wrong by two of Sir Alex Ferguson's signings at Manchester United.The two United greats were sceptical when the club announced the arrivals of both Nemanja Vidic and Patrice Evra in January 2006, and early showings in training did little to change their minds.Ferguson looked to strengthen his squad with the acquisition of the defensive duo midway through the season, and it is safe to say Rooney's and

straight to your inbox Fresh allegations made by Der Spiegel contain one glaring error which calls into question the balance of their investigation. The German newspaper has published a fresh batch of hacked emails which it says show that Manchester City misled the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

straight to your inbox David Silva will play his 309th and final Premier League game this afternoon as he captains Manchester City against Norwich this afternoon. Silva, who leaves City at the end of the season, captains the Blues today in the last game of the extended domestic season against the relegated Canaries.