The Manchester City Gazette
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Too dear: Manchester City walk away from Cole Palmer
$38.7M was the most the club would pay and Chelsea 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Manchester City rebuffed over Fabián
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Paris Saint-Germain have kept their man, and Manchester City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Marcus Bettinelli agrees terms with Stockport County
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Mahamadou Sangaré turns Fleetwood Town down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Manchester City
Enzo Fernández was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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
One of our own: Christopher Fisher joins the Manchester City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Christopher Fisher is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
Andrew Wright steps up from the Manchester City academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andrew Wright 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Manchester City sign off a bigger ground
A capacity of 73297 on the plans. A decision judged twenty years from now, by people who were not in the room and will have opinions anyway.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Manchester City
- Looking ahead Marc Guéhi goes back to face Crystal Palace
- Squad Ryan McAidoo wants to know why he earns less