Benjamin Hall

Defensive Midfielder - Manchester City
13 Nov 2027
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Marked for Benjamin Hall

18 Edition

The Manchester City Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

A brace, and Erling Haaland takes the afternoon — 8.56

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Erling Haaland provided it, and the 8.56 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Gianluigi Donnarumma keeps Manchester City in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match28 Nov 2026

Still nobody has beaten Manchester City

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Benjamin Hall: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Manchester City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Manchester City

Enzo Fernández 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.

Match28 Nov 2026

The run is over for Manchester City

7 matches without defeat, and then Brighton. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

The terraces30 Nov 2026

The crowd has taken to Rayan Cherki

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Ninety minutes of Rayan Cherki at his very best

Marked 8.58. 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 ratings30 Nov 2026

Phil Foden in the eights

A performance of 8.49 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Manchester City Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market24 Aug 2026

Business is business: Jérémy Doku goes

Sevilla paid $106.3M and Manchester City took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market24 Aug 2026

Mahamadou Sangaré has said yes to Barnet

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Manchester City have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Too dear: Manchester City walk away from Hákon Rafn Valdimarsson

$12.5M was the most the club would pay and Brentford 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.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

A $106.3M sale, and a town that did not want it

Jérémy Doku has gone, the accounts have $106.3M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Market24 Aug 2026

Manchester City turn down West Ham United for Abdukodir Khusanov

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Stoke City tell Manchester City: Viktor Johansson is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Enzo Fernández falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market24 Aug 2026

Business is business: Marcus Bettinelli goes

Stockport County paid $390.0K and Manchester City took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Manchester City

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

In brief