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City’s solution to facing De Zerbi's Brighton was simply to cram all of their best ball-players into the middle of the pitch

Manchester City coasted to victory at Brighton to keep the pressure on Premier League leaders Arsenal

New York City FC's $800m stadium in Queens is set to open in 2027 but questions persist about whether it represents fair value for the city

Pep Guardiola believes his team thrive when playing under pressure as City seek to secure a fourth successive Premier League title

'Anchoring' clubs' spending would be a small but important change for the English top flight and is a tantalising glimpse at a fairer game

The Premier League is heading towards another contentious vote on Monday with a majority of clubs keen to add a hard spending cap to the new “squad cost” rules that are being introduced for the 2025-26 season. Based on the concept of “anchoring”, the de facto salary cap would limit the amount of money any club can invest in their squads by tying it to a multiple of what the lowest earners get from the league’s centralised broadcast and commercial deals. Earlier this month, the clubs unanimously backed a proposal to progress talks on the squad cost regime, with a view to finalising...

Manchester City goalkeeper Ellie Roebuck is set to join Barcelona at the end of the season. The 24-year-old, whose City contract expires in June, has signed a pre-contract agreement with Barcelona and, as reported by Sport earlier this month, will compete with Barcelona No 1 Cata Coll and reserve goalkeeper Gemma Font. Barcelona are also set to renew Font’s contract while in February, long-term No 1 Sandra Panos announced she would leave the Catalan club after nine years. This season, Coll and Panos have shared goalkeeping duties making 13 and 10 starts respectively in Liga F. In March,...

Erling Haaland has been ruled out of Manchester City’s Premier League game at Brighton & Hove Albion on Thursday. City boss Pep Guardiola did confirm, though, that Phil Foden and John Stones are fit for the trip to the Amex Stadium. Haaland missed City’s last match — Saturday’s 1-0 FA Cup semi-final win over Chelsea — with an injury, while John Stones was taken off at half-time. Sky Sports reported that Foden was not pictured in City’s opening training on Tuesday. “Erling (Haaland) is not ready for tomorrow,” Guardiola said on Wednesday. “The...

Former Argentina international Carlos Tevez has been discharged from hospital in Buenos Aires having been admitted earlier on Wednesday after suffering with chest pains. The 40-year-old former Manchester United and Manchester City forward underwent examination at the Sanatorio La Trinidad in San Isidro on Wednesday morning and was released later the same day. Tevez has been head coach of Argentinian Primera Division side Independiente since August 2023. An update from the club on their head coach’s condition read: “Carlos Tevez finished his medical studies and was discharged. He...

Players try to appear calm, but how does being in a title race actually impact Premier League squads?

Wolves plan to activate a purchase option to make on-loan Manchester City midfielder Tommy Doyle a permanent Wolves player, head coach Gary O’Neil has confirmed. The 22-year-old has made 22 Premier League appearances, including 10 starts, since joining Wolves on loan from City last summer. Now Wolves are preparing to take up an option to buy Doyle for £4.3million this summer. “I would expect him to be here next year,” said O’Neil. “Hopefully we can get that done fairly quickly in the summer. “I know he feels settled and I know he’s enjoying it. “We’re...

Man City on the charge at home but Chelsea have given themselves a fighting chance in the Champions League

Manchester United nearly throw it away against Coventry, Nottingham Forest vent over VAR very publicly and Guardiola's furious over fixtures

The Champions League format as we know it is coming to an end. Here are UEFA’s proposed changes and what they mean for those involved…

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says the scheduling of his side’s FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea was “unacceptable”. City won the match 1-0 thanks to a late goal from Bernardo Silva, although conceded several chances to a wasteful Chelsea team. The game at Wembley Stadium came less than three days after City were knocked out of the Champions League on penalties by Real Madrid at the quarter-final stage. City played 120 minutes in Madrid, with the game finishing 1-1 after normal time and extra time before Guardiola’s side lost the shootout 4-3. “It is unacceptable, really...