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#SheikhScouts: Finding The Right Center-Back
2024-12-18 15:22:25 UTC
Welcome back to the latest edition of Sheikh Scouts, Man City International’s ongoing player scouting series. In the previous installment, the focus was on rebuilding our midfield engine. Specifically, players that are flying slightly under the radar, names that aren’t as popular as others. For example, someone like Zubimendi,…

MCI Pre-Match Preview: Manchester City vs Watford
2024-09-24 15:59:30 UTC
Death, taxes and Manchester City winning Carabao Cups. For some time, fewer things were more certain for City and their fans. However, despite having lifted the league cup four consecutive times in a row in recent years (eight overall), the trophy has become somewhat of an afterthought in the…

MCI Post Match Review: Manchester City vs Arsenal
2024-09-23 22:24:06 UTC
The dust has finally settled but the emotions are still running high from what was easily the most hotly-contested matchup between reigning champions Manchester City and the London-based club, Arsenal FC in recent years. Despite being only matchday five, this fixture had the feel of a derby or a title-deciding…

MCI Post Match Review: Manchester City vs Arsenal
2024-09-23 22:24:06 UTC
The dust has finally settled but the emotions are still running high from what was easily the most hotly-contested matchup between reigning champions Manchester City and the London-based club, Arsenal FC in recent years. Despite being only matchday five, this fixture had the feel of a derby or a title-deciding…

MCI Pre Match Preview: Manchester City vs Arsenal
2024-09-22 11:57:38 UTC
In an early season matchup between the Premier League’s two most obvious contenders, reigning, 4peat champions Manchester City are gearing up for a massive showdown as they welcome the 2x consecutive runners up in Arsenal to the Etihad. With City determined to maintain their spot at the top and…

MCI Post Match Review: Manchester City vs Brentford FC
2024-09-16 20:24:07 UTC
Following a tribute to late City manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, Manchester City added another notch in the win column over the weekend, defeating Brentford FC in a narrow 2-1 home victory. This was truly a game of two halves. Thomas Frank’s side proved once again to be the well-disciplined and…

MCI Pre-Match Preview: Manchester City vs Brentford FC
2024-09-14 11:34:53 UTC
Following a lengthy and seemingly unnecessary (topic for another day) international “break,” Manchester City return to league play as they host Brentford in a clash of contrasting styles. Both teams have enjoyed strong starts to their campaigns, but City enter as the clear favorites being top of the table once…

The Quest to Regain Our Carabao Crown Begins Against Watford
2024-09-04 20:17:12 UTC
Depending on who you ask, the Carabao Cup (or League Cup) is one of the more prestigious trophies you can win domestically in England. A trophy that Manchester City are very familiar with, having won six in the last decade and eight total. However, despite our recent domestic dominance, this…

MCI Pre-Match Preview: West Ham vs Manchester City
2024-08-31 12:15:56 UTC
It’s shaping up to be an exciting day on our hands as Manchester City will be looking to end the month of August strong by continuing their winning ways with a match against West Ham at the London Stadium. A win away from home would mean City accelerate into…

Sheikh Scouts: Orri Óskarsson - The Future Star?
2024-08-27 19:41:38 UTC
After a lengthy hiatus, we are thrilled to welcome you back to #SheikhScouts, our in-depth analysis series of emerging football talents across the globe with en emphasis on City-linked targets. It’s been over a year since our last report, and we’re thrilled to kick off with a special focus…

City Dominate the PFA Awards, Phil Foden Voted Player of the Year
2024-08-26 21:43:19 UTC
City academy graduate and the pride of Manchester - Philip Walter Foden secured the PFA Player of the Year this week after a stellar season leading Manchester City to another Premier League title. Over the last 5 years, a Man City player has won this prestigious award four times with…

MCI Post-Match Review: Manchester City vs Ipswich Town
2024-08-26 21:25:00 UTC
In a thrilling 4-1 victory, Manchester City defeated the newly promoted Ipswich Town over the weekend. Even without Phil Foden, out with an undisclosed virus, and Rodri, still on holiday from the Euros, City made it look easy and proved why they are the reigning, defending champions of England. All…

MCI Pre-Match Preview: Manchester City v Ipswich Town
2024-08-24 02:52:07 UTC
The fanfare is over, the celebrations done with, pre-season joys and fears out of the way. With the first league game of the season behind us, the Etihad Stadium welcomes the Four-Peat champions back. Last week’s victory over Chelsea was not a perfect game by any means but it did…

MCI Post-Match Review: Chelsea vs Manchester City
2024-08-19 17:50:15 UTC
A thrilling 0-2 fixture saw Manchester City leave Stamford Bridge with a vital, momentum-setting result. With important players such as Rodri and Foden not in the starting lineup, there were questions on how Manchester City would look in the first game of the season away against Chelsea. The doubters…

“City, the Knicks, and Why Modern Fandom Won’t Faze Us.”
2023-11-08 20:44:56 UTC
It’s a great time to be a City fan. A treble, consistent trophies, the signings, the greatest manager of all time.. there is no denying the obvious. The investment from HH Sheikh Mansour catapulted City to the top of the English football pyramid and Pep Guardiola’s arrival ensured that…

Pep & The Evolution of the ‘P’ Principles
2023-08-22 17:58:45 UTC
Pep Guardiola has been the Manchester City manager since the 2016-17 season, making his current tenure the longest he’s been at any club in his managerial career. Since then, we’ve been blessed to watch some of the most beautiful, clinical, devastating, intricate football to grace the sport in its entire…

Farewell Gündoğan.. And Thank You.
2023-06-26 18:15:00 UTC
To İlkay Gündoğan: As the dust settles on our incredible season and your recently announced transfer, I’m sure every City fan is feeling some variation of what I’m feeling now. Gratitude, nostalgia, sadness.. overwhelming pride. What else can be said about you that hasn’t been said…

Sheikh Scouts: Marcus Edwards
2023-06-07 17:05:59 UTC
With the transfer window open and rumors floating around, we are launching a new series called #SheikhScouts, a simply weekly feature in which Sheikh dissects some targets he is intrigued by. It’s important to note that these features are purely speculation and the targets to be mentioned won’t necessarily…

Rúben Dias - The Most Impactful Signing of Guardiola’s City Era?”
2023-05-22 18:25:39 UTC
Among many lessons learned in the 2019/20 season, arguably the most prominent was that we needed to sign a defender. Vinny was on his way out, Stones and Laporte struggling with injuries, and Otamendi not the best fit for Guardiola’s system. City set their sights on Senegalese center back Kalidou…

5 Things We Learned: City - West Ham/Leeds
2023-05-10 17:36:00 UTC
It has been an incredibly busy run of games for City and the MCG team is feeling it too. Now in the thick of the most crucial games of our season, Nico took some time to share his thoughts for the latest installment of our ’5 Things We Learned…

[Guest Op-Ed] Ederson: Unfairly Criticized or Criticism Justified?
2023-05-08 17:26:00 UTC
I was asked recently by a fellow City fan who I considered to be the best club goalkeeper in my lifetime and it took me approximately five seconds to answer. “Ederson, by far,” which was followed by a somewhat predictable response of “he can’t save Tone,” which in…

5 Things We Learned: City - Southampton/Bayern
2023-04-13 18:56:45 UTC
What a weekend. On the heels of arguably the best Manchester City performance in a UCL ever, we are absolutely buzzing. Last week we launched our weekly “5 Things We Learned” matchday series after our fixture against Liverpool and we’ve decided to combine the Southampton and Bayern Munich…

Why Doesn’t Riyad Mahrez Play More?
2023-04-12 19:03:00 UTC
A game-changing, match winner when he’s at his best, Riyad Mahrez is known for his stunning skill, effortless technicality, and his wand of a left foot. Yet despite his obvious talent and exceptional performances, he has played the fewest minutes by City wingers under Pep Guardiola, rendering the Algerian as…

Yaya Touré: The Legend Without A Statue
2023-04-07 18:36:00 UTC
When Yaya Touré signed for Manchester City in the summer of 2010, it was seen by many as a good but not game-changing signing. The defensive midfielder had been displaced by Sergio Busquets and played as a makeshift centre back for Barcelona in the 2009 Champions League final, making it…

5 Things We Learned: City - Liverpool
2023-04-04 18:41:00 UTC
Saturday began early with a clash between two of the Premier League’s finest, with Manchester City taking on Liverpool at the Etihad. Despite an early goal by Mo Salah (inevitable), City methodically established their dominance over the Merseyside club en route to a dazzling 4-1 victory. City manager Pep Guardiola…

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