Manchester City

As it stands, ➖ Barca sent the third bid for Rodri to City already. ➖ Ayyoub Bouaddi’s deal is in the final stages. ➖ Dias and Haaland are captains. ➖ Manchester City play football tomorrow. Goodnight, Blues.

🚨 Enzo Maresca on Elliot Anderson’s best position: “Holding midfielder. He can also be an attacking midfielder. The good thing about Elliot is he’s young, you can work with him, help him improve, as a No.6, No.8, arriving into the box. With [Nottingham] Forest he was playing next to [Ibrahim] Sangare, England he was playing next to [Declan] Rice, two physical players. But I also think in some games he doesn’t need physical players next to him, so it depends a little bit on the game plan…”

𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂🚨: Ryan McAidoo will STAY with the Manchester City first-team squad this season! 🗣️ Enzo Maresca: “One of the surprises has been Ryan McAidoo, that no one expected. He was very good. I really like players so aggressive in wide areas. I think for him the best thing is to stay with us. To learn. Be around the first-team every day. Try to be clever. Try to be intelligent. Try to learn from Antoine [Semenyo], from Jeremy [Doku]. When I say try to learn, it’s not how to dribble. In terms of attitude, working hard. Young players sometimes it’s difficult because they can stop working because they feel they are ready and they are not. It’s good that he continues to learn.”

🚨 Enzo Maresca: “At the moment it’s Ruben and Erling. I want to wait until the end of the transfer window and then pick two more… Erling is the only one [captain] allowed to celebrate if he scores. Ruben has shown at this club how good he is as a player, in terms of leadership. It’s important for the captains that they understand the reason why they are captain is because I expect more from them. Not because I give them more freedom or more advantages. It’s the opposite. The leadership group are the ones that have to show more and give more in all moments.”

BREAKING🚨: Ruben Dias and Erling Haaland are Man City’s captains as things stand, confirms Enzo Maresca. Maresca: “I want to wait until the end of the transfer window to pick two more…”

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Final preparations! 💪

The Man City squad have now landed in Cardiff ahead of the 2026 FA Community Shield against Arsenal. 🛬

🚨 Man City are looking at solutions to help Gianluigi Donnarumma contribute on the ball and not ask for anything overly elaborate. One idea is to build up with three defenders rather than two, giving more security for possible mistakes and more options when passing. Donnarumma has been doing extra work at the end of sessions with Richard Wright and Michele De Bernardin, relentlessly clipping 30 or 40-yard balls to wide areas.

🚨 Man City received £4M from Shea Charles’ £30M transfer to Fulham from Southampton as a result of a sell-on clause included in his move to the south coast three years ago.

⏳ 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗗𝗢𝗪𝗡: 6 days until the return of the Premier League. 🔜

🚨 Rodri to Barcelona is now CLOSE. 🔵🔴 After days of talks, negotiations with Manchester City have entered the FINAL stages, with Barça hoping to complete the deal in the coming hours for a package worth over £60M including add-ons. (Source: MatteMoretto)

🚨 Man City will pursue a new winger if Savinho leaves this summer, with a concrete name yet to emerge. Several younger players were looked at ‘a few months ago’ including Wolves’ Mateus Mane.

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