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Leader Live
30-05-2025
- Business
- Leader Live
Man City should have been more aggressive with transfers last summer
City endured a disappointing 2024-25 campaign by their high standards, failing to mount a strong defence of their Premier League title and exiting the Champions League before the last 16. Khaldoon now accepts the club should have done more to strengthen the squad before the campaign. The £30.8million signing Savinho and the return of veteran Ilkay Gundogan were the only major incoming deals last summer, while key forward Julian Alvarez was among those to depart. Speaking in his annual end-of-season interview, Khaldoon told the club's website: 'This year is another year where I think when I look back, last summer, we probably should have been more aggressive in some of the changes we needed to do. 'We didn't do that and that ended up costing us this year.' City's underwhelming start to the season forced them to enter the transfer market in January and hastily bring in Omar Marmoush, Abdukodir Khusanov, Vitor Reis and Nico Gonzalez at a combined cost of more than £172million. The squad regeneration will continue this summer, with the club hoping to make additions before the start of the Club World Cup. City's first match in that tournament is on June 18. Khaldoon said: 'We already started that rebuild of this team in January. Normally we like to do our business in the summer and, only in case of emergency, a special need that comes up, do we actually go and do business in January. 'That's been our MO at least for the last seven or eight years – but this January we had to act.' He added: 'That's four players in January, and that gives you an idea of what's coming this summer because we will continue. 'We have clearly identified who exactly are the targets, in what positions, and we have our clear number one option, our clear number two option. 'And we'll go about our business and it will be very clear, very swift. And our objective is to try to be ready with the new squad for the Club World Cup.' City's disappointments this term included defeat in the FA Cup final, leaving the Community Shield as their only silverware from the campaign. Khaldoon said: 'We will be back. This season is a season that's now behind us. Today is a new day. We start working and preparing for next season. 'We will take all the good things and the not so good things from this season and learn from it and improve from it and get better. 'I can assure you, this club will do everything possible to come back to the standards that we know we all can achieve and that we know, we will achieve.'
Rhyl Journal
29-05-2025
- Business
- Rhyl Journal
Man City should have been more aggressive with transfers last summer
City endured a disappointing 2024-25 campaign by their high standards, failing to mount a strong defence of their Premier League title and exiting the Champions League before the last 16. Khaldoon now accepts the club should have done more to strengthen the squad before the campaign. The £30.8million signing Savinho and the return of veteran Ilkay Gundogan were the only major incoming deals last summer, while key forward Julian Alvarez was among those to depart. Speaking in his annual end-of-season interview, Khaldoon told the club's website: 'This year is another year where I think when I look back, last summer, we probably should have been more aggressive in some of the changes we needed to do. 'We didn't do that and that ended up costing us this year.' City's underwhelming start to the season forced them to enter the transfer market in January and hastily bring in Omar Marmoush, Abdukodir Khusanov, Vitor Reis and Nico Gonzalez at a combined cost of more than £172million. The squad regeneration will continue this summer, with the club hoping to make additions before the start of the Club World Cup. City's first match in that tournament is on June 18. Khaldoon said: 'We already started that rebuild of this team in January. Normally we like to do our business in the summer and, only in case of emergency, a special need that comes up, do we actually go and do business in January. 'That's been our MO at least for the last seven or eight years – but this January we had to act.' He added: 'That's four players in January, and that gives you an idea of what's coming this summer because we will continue. 'We have clearly identified who exactly are the targets, in what positions, and we have our clear number one option, our clear number two option. 'And we'll go about our business and it will be very clear, very swift. And our objective is to try to be ready with the new squad for the Club World Cup.' City's disappointments this term included defeat in the FA Cup final, leaving the Community Shield as their only silverware from the campaign. Khaldoon said: 'We will be back. This season is a season that's now behind us. Today is a new day. We start working and preparing for next season. 'We will take all the good things and the not so good things from this season and learn from it and improve from it and get better. 'I can assure you, this club will do everything possible to come back to the standards that we know we all can achieve and that we know, we will achieve.'
North Wales Chronicle
29-05-2025
- Business
- North Wales Chronicle
Man City should have been more aggressive with transfers last summer
City endured a disappointing 2024-25 campaign by their high standards, failing to mount a strong defence of their Premier League title and exiting the Champions League before the last 16. Khaldoon now accepts the club should have done more to strengthen the squad before the campaign. The £30.8million signing Savinho and the return of veteran Ilkay Gundogan were the only major incoming deals last summer, while key forward Julian Alvarez was among those to depart. Speaking in his annual end-of-season interview, Khaldoon told the club's website: 'This year is another year where I think when I look back, last summer, we probably should have been more aggressive in some of the changes we needed to do. 'We didn't do that and that ended up costing us this year.' City's underwhelming start to the season forced them to enter the transfer market in January and hastily bring in Omar Marmoush, Abdukodir Khusanov, Vitor Reis and Nico Gonzalez at a combined cost of more than £172million. The squad regeneration will continue this summer, with the club hoping to make additions before the start of the Club World Cup. City's first match in that tournament is on June 18. Khaldoon said: 'We already started that rebuild of this team in January. Normally we like to do our business in the summer and, only in case of emergency, a special need that comes up, do we actually go and do business in January. 'That's been our MO at least for the last seven or eight years – but this January we had to act.' He added: 'That's four players in January, and that gives you an idea of what's coming this summer because we will continue. 'We have clearly identified who exactly are the targets, in what positions, and we have our clear number one option, our clear number two option. 'And we'll go about our business and it will be very clear, very swift. And our objective is to try to be ready with the new squad for the Club World Cup.' City's disappointments this term included defeat in the FA Cup final, leaving the Community Shield as their only silverware from the campaign. Khaldoon said: 'We will be back. This season is a season that's now behind us. Today is a new day. We start working and preparing for next season. 'We will take all the good things and the not so good things from this season and learn from it and improve from it and get better. 'I can assure you, this club will do everything possible to come back to the standards that we know we all can achieve and that we know, we will achieve.'
South Wales Guardian
29-05-2025
- Business
- South Wales Guardian
Man City should have been more aggressive with transfers last summer
City endured a disappointing 2024-25 campaign by their high standards, failing to mount a strong defence of their Premier League title and exiting the Champions League before the last 16. Khaldoon now accepts the club should have done more to strengthen the squad before the campaign. The £30.8million signing Savinho and the return of veteran Ilkay Gundogan were the only major incoming deals last summer, while key forward Julian Alvarez was among those to depart. Speaking in his annual end-of-season interview, Khaldoon told the club's website: 'This year is another year where I think when I look back, last summer, we probably should have been more aggressive in some of the changes we needed to do. 'We didn't do that and that ended up costing us this year.' City's underwhelming start to the season forced them to enter the transfer market in January and hastily bring in Omar Marmoush, Abdukodir Khusanov, Vitor Reis and Nico Gonzalez at a combined cost of more than £172million. The squad regeneration will continue this summer, with the club hoping to make additions before the start of the Club World Cup. City's first match in that tournament is on June 18. Khaldoon said: 'We already started that rebuild of this team in January. Normally we like to do our business in the summer and, only in case of emergency, a special need that comes up, do we actually go and do business in January. 'That's been our MO at least for the last seven or eight years – but this January we had to act.' He added: 'That's four players in January, and that gives you an idea of what's coming this summer because we will continue. 'We have clearly identified who exactly are the targets, in what positions, and we have our clear number one option, our clear number two option. 'And we'll go about our business and it will be very clear, very swift. And our objective is to try to be ready with the new squad for the Club World Cup.' City's disappointments this term included defeat in the FA Cup final, leaving the Community Shield as their only silverware from the campaign. Khaldoon said: 'We will be back. This season is a season that's now behind us. Today is a new day. We start working and preparing for next season. 'We will take all the good things and the not so good things from this season and learn from it and improve from it and get better. 'I can assure you, this club will do everything possible to come back to the standards that we know we all can achieve and that we know, we will achieve.'
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Pep Guardiola vows to walk away from Man City unless one condition is met
Pep Guardiola has claimed he will quit Manchester City if they have such a big squad next season. Guardiola is urging his bosses at the Etihad Stadium to get rid of some players so he has fewer at his disposal next year and he said – albeit in a threat he is unlikely to carry out – that he would resign if he had such a large group again. The City manager had to tell Savinho, Abdukodir Khusanov, Claudio Echeverri, Rico Lewis and James McAtee they were not even on the bench for Tuesday's 3-1 win over Bournemouth, just as the two locals were omitted from the matchday 20 for the FA Cup final. Guardiola made four signings in the winter window, after injuries led him to conclude that he had too few players but now he believes he has too many and, while Kevin de Bruyne is guaranteed to leave, the others are all contracted to City next season – leading the manager to say he wants some to go. 'I said to the club I don't want that [a bigger squad],' he explained. 'I don't want to leave five or six players in the freezer. I don't want that. I will quit. 'Make a shorter squad and I will stay. It's impossible for my soul to give my players [a place] in the tribune that they cannot play. Now it happened to add players immediately. 'Maybe for three-to-four months we couldn't select 11 players, we didn't have defenders and it was so difficult. After people come back but next season it cannot be like that. 'As a manager I cannot train 24 players and every time I select I have to have four, five or six staying in Manchester at home because they cannot play. This is not going to happen. I said to the club that I don't want that.' Guardiola added that he could not 'sustain for the emotion of the club' to have a squad of that size as he felt the team needed to 'create another connection with each other' in a smaller group, supplemented by academy players. He said: 'It is a question for the club. I don't want to have 24, 25, 26 players when everyone is fit. It is a headache. Yesterday I spent more than 45 minutes with six players. Not one or two, six players were at home. I don't like that.'
