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Yahoo
04-06-2025
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- Yahoo
Manchester City agree €55m fee to buy Milan midfielder Tijjani Reijnders
Manchester City's promise of quick summer spending has begun with the agreement of a transfer fee with Milan for the Netherlands international midfielder Tijjani Reijnders. The 26-year-old will cost €55m – around £46m – and has already agreed personal terms for a five-year contract. He will become the first addition of the raft of signings the club chairman, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, pledged before City take part in the Club World Cup. A special transfer window has been opened for Fifa's new competition. Advertisement Related: Men's transfer window summer 2025: all deals from Europe's top five leagues Reijnders, principally an attacking midfielder, was a bright spark in a disappointing season for Milan, scoring 15 goals. With Kevin De Bruyne departed, and a number of other players expected to head for the exit, Jack Grealish probably included, a new-look City, rather different from the deposed champions of 2024-25, is being built at pace. They are also linked with Rayan Aït-Nouri, the Wolves full-back. 'We already started that rebuild of this team in January,' Khaldoon said in a club interview last week. 'We have clearly identified who exactly are the targets, in what positions, and we have our clear No 1 option, our clear No 2 option. Our objective is to try to be ready with the new squad for the Club World Cup.' The January window saw City spend around £180m on Abdukodir Khusanov, Omar Marmoush, Nico González, Vitor Reis, Juma Bah and Christian McFarlane with Claudio Echeverri, signed the previous year, thrown on as a surprise substitute in the FA Cup Final loss to Crystal Palace. Advertisement Pep Guardiola, meanwhile, has made it clear he does not want to work with a bloated squad, despite City's heavy workload in the US and next season, his team having confirmed qualification for the Champions League. He said last month: 'As a manager I cannot train 24 players and every time I select I have to have four, five, six stay in Manchester at home because they cannot play. This is not going to happen. I said to the club. I don't want that.' A move for Bayer Leverkusen's Florian Wirtz, linked heavily with Liverpool, was not firmed up, reportedly on grounds of cost. The transfer window for Premier League clubs is open between 1 June and 10 June and then from 16 June to 1 September.
Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Manchester City confident of signing £50m-rated Rayan Aït-Nouri from Wolves
Manchester City are optimistic of signing the Wolves full-back Rayan Aït-Nouri as part of their summer revamp. City are yet to bid for the Algeria defender but he is regarded as a primary target. City's chair, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, has said the club were not aggressive enough in the market last summer and want to complete most of their close-season business in time for the Club World Cup with their first game on 18 June. The Lyon midfielder Rayan Cherki is another target. Related: Men's transfer window summer 2025: all deals from Europe's top five leagues Guardiola has been keen to strengthen at left-back after playing centre-back Josko Gvardiol and midfielder Nico O'Reilly – neither of whom are orthodox full-backs – there for most of last season. City are among the clubs to have tracked the Bournemouth defender Milos Kerkez, who is expected to join Liverpool. The Premier League champions want to add a left-back to compete with Andy Robertson. Aït-Nouri has impressed in four seasons at Wolves, for whom he initially signed on loan from Ligue 1 club Angers in October 2020. Wolves are thought to value the 23-year-old at about £50m. He has 12 months remaining on his contract, though the club hold an option to extend his deal for a further year. Wolves, who sold Matheus Cunha to Manchester United in a £62.5m deal, have not given hope of retaining their captain, Nelson Semedo, who is out of contract this summer. He is yet to respond to the offer of a new four-year contract. In April, the Wolves' head coach, Vitor Pereira, said of the Portugal full-back: 'He knows I want him to stay. He's very important with the group. But it's his life, his family life and if he decides to move we need to find another one, another good man.'
BBC News
09-04-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Man City freeze ticket prices for 2025-26
Manchester City have frozen season ticket and matchday ticket prices for the 2025-26 campaign following talks with the club's fan advisory held an extraordinary meeting with City Matters on 3 April and say the decision follows "positive and constructive dialogue" with the board over recent representatives of City Matters went on strike in March because the club did not engage in discussions about season ticket followed an open letter sent to chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak in February by seven prominent fans groups complaining about ticket price rises and the prospect of local fans being frozen out. "The club would like to thank City Matters representatives for the feedback they provide on a range of topics relating to ticketing, and for sharing a broad range of perspectives from the fans they represent," said announcement follows further fan criticism for agreeing a global partnership with third-party ticket resale site Viagogo - their ninth partnership with a ticket resale were accused of being "tone deaf" amid concerns hospitality tickets could be sold to away fans and standard tickets could be sold at inflated protested against the deal by remaining in Etihad Stadium's concourses for the first nine minutes of last week's Premier League win over say that tickets sold on Viagogo will come from the existing allocation of hospitality tickets, will be subject to a fixed price cap and will not subject to dynamic ticket pricing.
BBC News
06-02-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Fans protest against ticket price hike
Seven prominent Manchester City fans groups have jointly sent an open letter to the club complaining about ticket price rises and the prospect of local fans being frozen letter was sent to chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak and the fans' groups have pointed out that, with the exception of COVID-19 affected year, City has made a profit "each season since 2014-15"."The club are quick to emphasise their connection to Manchester," the letter explains. "In our most recent annual report, chief executive Ferran Soriano spoke to his love for the City of Manchester."We are asking that we do not lose that link. After all, what is this club without Manchester? Even our nickname - the Citizens - is in reference to our Mancunian roots."By making it practically impossible to obtain a standard season ticket, ticketing policy decision makers at Manchester City are severing the generational link between fans and their club."
