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Daily Mail
29-05-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
Man City striker emerges as target for Ipswich with Kieran McKenna eager to bolster his attacking options as Liam Delap nears Chelsea move
Manchester City striker Divin Mubama is a target for Ipswich Town. City's preference is for the 20-year-old to go out on loan though Ipswich are understood to be keen on a permanent transfer. With Liam Delap heading for Chelsea, Ipswich had asked Chelsea about taking Marc Guiu on loan earlier this month. The Spanish striker is still to be convinced so Ipswich have asked elsewhere with Mubama another option after he finished the season with 15 goals. Mubama, who joined City after leaving West Ham last year, could yet be involved in City's World Club Cup plans as they look to include a number of youngsters. City are also accelerating talks with AC Milan for Tijjan Reijnders and with Lyon for Rayan Cherki with an eye on freshening up their squad for the tournament in USA next month. Their opening game is against Wydad AC on June 18. However, some players are unsure whether they will be part of the squad yet. Pep Guardiola is also shuffling his backroom team. While Ben Wilkinson will step up from the U21s for the USA tournament, City are weighing up the merits of other coaching contenders with the likes of Kolo Toure and former Liverpool assistant Pep Lijnders in the mix.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Man City win record fourth PL2 title
Manchester City's elite development squad won the Premier League 2 title for a record fourth time with a 2-0 victory over Southampton. Ben Wilkinson's side came top of the league phase and emerged through the play-offs to lift the trophy at Joie Stadium on Thursday evening. First-half goals from Divin Mubama and Ashton Muir gave City a comfortable victory, keeping the Saints in check for the majority of the contest. The squad received a message from first-team manager Pep Guardiola, who said: "To win the Premier League title is such a tough thing to achieve and a matter of huge pride for us all at the club. "The manner of their victory showed how talented our young players are and also proved that they play with courage and personality too. "We see how strong the academy is every single day, and the quality is there every single time the young players train with us."
BBC News
23-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Man City win record fourth PL2 title
Manchester City's elite development squad won the Premier League 2 title for a record fourth time with a 2-0 victory over Wilkinson's side came top of the league phase and emerged through the play-offs to lift the trophy at Joie Stadium on Thursday goals from Divin Mubama and Ashton Muir gave City a comfortable victory, keeping the Saints in check for the majority of the squad received a message from first-team manager Pep Guardiola, who said: "To win the Premier League title is such a tough thing to achieve and a matter of huge pride for us all at the club."The manner of their victory showed how talented our young players are and also proved that they play with courage and personality too."We see how strong the academy is every single day, and the quality is there every single time the young players train with us."
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Man City crowned Premier League 2 champions after beating Southampton
Manchester City U21 beat Southampton 2-0 in the Premier League 2 play-off final at the Joie Stadium on Thursday. The Saints started the game on the front foot as full-back Derrick Abu blazed his shot over the post from 15 yards out. City took the lead in the sixth minute when forward Divin Mubama scored after receiving a pass from Charlie Gray to net his sixth goal in the play-offs. Defender Stephen Mfuni nearly gave the Cityzens a two-goal lead in the 11th minute, heading a corner towards goal, but Southampton cleared his effort off the line. Gray teed up Mubama from an indirect free-kick, but the striker's shot was blocked. Forward Ashton Muir doubled the Cityzens' lead in the 39th minute, rising highest to nod home defender Max Alleyne's brilliant pass. Matty Henderson-Hall was denied twice in the space of a minute just after the hour mark by goalkeeper Josh McNamara from extending Man City's advantage. Substitute Baylee Dipepa came close to reducing Southampton's deficit in the 75th minute, drilling his effort wide of the post from 12 yards out. Dipepa looked threatening again late on when Juan Larios delivered a low cross, which was met by the striker, whose effort drifted wide. Southampton could not reduce the deficit, and City lifted the title, becoming the second team to win the play-off final since the competition's restructure last season. They have overtaken Manchester United as the club with the most league titles, having won it four times. City won their first in 2020/2021 and have now won it in four of the last five seasons to establish themselves as the most dominant team in the division.
BBC News
12-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Mubama ready to take next step
Manchester City striker Divin Mubama will not be part of the club's Premier League 2 squad next season but it is not clear whether he will be sent out on loan or granted a permanent jewel in West Ham's FA Youth Cup-winning team in 2023, 20-year-old Mubama joined City the following year after his contract expired at the London made two senior appearances for City this season - adding to his 18 under David Moyes at West Ham - and scored against League Two Salford in the FA Cup third round in he has spent most of the campaign in PL2 and took his tally in the end of season play-offs to five with two second half efforts in Friday's semi-final win over Manchester Elite Development Squad head coach Ben Wilkinson knows Mubama will not be around next term. But he is also aware the next steps for any young striker are hazardous."We've got players in our team we'd expect not to see next year because they're ready to make that step and he's probably one of them," said Wilkinson."It's trying to help with that next step and guide them in the right direction."We've had it the last three, four, five years with some real high potential players from the 18s and 21s and now they're playing on our TV screens every other week."The problem is it has been notoriously hard for young strikers to go out on loan and succeed in the Championship or League One. You used to have someone next to you and now you're a 19, 20-year-old number nine up against two big centre halves and the service might not be great."Wilkinson cites the example of Liam Delap, who had patchy loan spells at Stoke and Preston around the same age Mubama is now, before going to Hull last season, where he scored eight times in 32 persuaded Ipswich to take a chance by signing him permanently in a £20m deal last August, since when Delap has gone on to become one of the most coveted young strikers in the Premier added: "Liam was outstanding at this level, then had two or three loans and his numbers weren't outstanding."Now he has grown into his body and has been outstanding in the Premier League this year."Often the first move isn't as successful as you'd like it to be but that is a good thing because here they live in this bubble of academy football where we are successful and have a lot of the ball - Divin tonight had four good chances to score but will he get that in a Championship game? It's a tough one."
