Floyd Samba

Defensive Midfielder - Manchester City U20
24 Apr 2029
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140 Edition

The Manchester City Gazette

2 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad2 Apr 2029

Floyd Samba damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad2 Apr 2029

A falling-out at Manchester City

Vinícius Júnior and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout2 Apr 2029

Adrien Truffert gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout2 Apr 2029

A promise honoured for Giorgi Mamardashvili

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Manchester City told Giorgi Mamardashvili something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad2 Apr 2029

Dominic Solanke is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Dominic Solanke has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

The dugout2 Apr 2029

When it matters, Giorgi Mamardashvili plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad2 Apr 2029

Manchester City are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Loan watch2 Apr 2029

Ollie Watkins keeps scoring at Chesterfield

14 appearances away from home and 9 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Market2 Apr 2029

The Rayan Cherki question follows Manchester City around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Rayan Cherki’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

Back issues
139 Edition

The Manchester City Gazette

26 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match22 Mar 2029

Manchester City do the business in Europe

2‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Manchester City came through the finding-out well against Rosenborg.

Squad26 Mar 2029

Floyd Samba damages knee ligaments — 32 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 32 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match25 Mar 2029

The run at home goes on for Manchester City

12 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad26 Mar 2029

Words exchanged at Manchester City

Vinícius Júnior and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match25 Mar 2029

Manchester City get the job done against Brighton

A 1‑0 win over Brighton, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad26 Mar 2029

International break empties Manchester City

7 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.

Player ratings26 Mar 2029

Ninety minutes of Rayan Cherki at his very best

Marked 8.29. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Manchester City.

The dugout26 Mar 2029

The team sheet said everything about Dominic Solanke

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Dominic Solanke.

Player ratings26 Mar 2029

Abdukodir Khusanov in the eights

A performance of 8.15 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief