The Manchester City Gazette
Market17 Aug 2026
Manchester City sell James Trafford for $29.4M
James Trafford has left for Bayer Leverkusen in a $29.4M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market17 Aug 2026
Bristol City come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Manchester City did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ethan Laidlaw gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ethan Laidlaw has just signed for Manchester City, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Manchester City
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Aug 2026
Stephen Brown steps up from the Manchester City academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stephen Brown has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Matthew Hall joins the Manchester City first team
- Boardroom The ground is getting bigger
- Squad Words at Manchester City training over how hard people work
- Squad Stéphane Perrin still has not settled