Teddie Lamb

Striker - Manchester City
27 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Teddie Lamb

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The Manchester City Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten Manchester City

The unbeaten run reaches 22. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Transfer targets

Manchester City make their move for Ebere Eze

$169.5M on the table at Arsenal. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Match

Another one collected away from home

11 on the bounce on the road for Manchester City. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Match

Cup progress for Manchester City

A 0‑0 win over Stoke City, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Transfer targets

Door shut on Tijjani Reijnders

Manchester City asked and Al-Qadisiyah said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Manchester City walk away from Savinho

$35.8M was the most the club would pay and Tottenham were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Market

Pierce Charles agrees terms with Watford

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Manchester City people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad

Gianluigi Donnarumma wins the shoot-out

1 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.

Match

The run at home goes on for Manchester City

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

In brief

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The Manchester City Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Rayan Cherki leads the rout of Sunderland

5‑0, and Rayan Cherki took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Manchester City tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Both of them Rayan Cherki's — 8.58

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.58, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Phil Foden in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Manchester City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The step up is real for Teddie Lamb

At 17 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Player ratings

Erling Haaland in the eights

A performance of 9.37 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The terraces

Manchester City supporters have found a favourite in Rayan Cherki

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Rayan Cherki has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

Jérémy Doku was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.72. 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.

Match

Manchester City settle it inside twenty minutes

2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Sunderland spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Phil Foden

Marked 8.26 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

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The Manchester City Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets

Manchester City make their move for Maxim De Cuyper

$32.4M on the table at Brighton. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

Manchester City rebuffed over Matt O'Riley

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Brighton have kept their man, and Manchester City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

No mercy from Manchester City

Burnley will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Manchester City were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

Erling Haaland scores twice — 9.40

Two goals and a mark of 9.40 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Rayan Cherki beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Transfer targets

Manchester City baulk at the price for Jarrad Branthwaite

Everton wanted more than $4.3M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Player ratings

One of those days for Antoine Semenyo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.67, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

A satisfied James Russell

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑0, James Russell could afford to be generous.

The dugout

Manchester City pick somebody else ahead of Teddie Lamb

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief