The Manchester City Gazette
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Manchester City
Enzo Fernández and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Allan at Manchester City
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Allan is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match26 Sep 2026
Manchester City find a way past West Ham United
West Ham United made Manchester City work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
One of their own: Oribe Ramirez
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match26 Sep 2026
Manchester City keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Phil Foden at his very best
Marked 8.60. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Manchester City.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Matheus Nunes was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.49. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Jérémy Doku was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.04. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Manchester City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elliot Anderson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout Rayan Cherki dropped after a run of poor form
- Market The Enzo Fernández story refuses to die