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CITY v | OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME | 13.08.2016 | £3.00 36705EYME_UAE_MCFC Bklet_210x148w_Aug_EN_#150.indd 1 8/8/16 12:17 PM CONTENTS 4 WALLPAPER 36 CITY STORE 62 TEAMS: EDS 6 38 KEVIN CUMMINS 64 TEAMS: UNDER-18s 10 42 A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN 68 TEAMS: SUNDERLAND 18 SHOWCASE 44 SHORT STAY 74 STATS: ROLL CALL 20 BUZZWORD 47 CITY IN THE COMMUNITY 76 STATS: MATCH DETAILS 22 SEQUENCES 52 FANS: YOUR SHOUT 80 STATS: FIXTURE LISTS 28 BEHIND THE SCENES 52 FANS: SUPPORTERS CLUB 82 TEAMS: SQUADS AND 32 MARC RILEY 58 FANS: JUNIOR CITYZENS OFFICIALS

MEET JOHN 10 STONES

Etihad Stadium, Etihad Campus, M11 3FF Telephone 0161 444 1894 | Website www.mancity.com | Facebook www.facebook.com/mcfcofficial | @mancity Chairman | Chief Executive Officer Ferran Soriano | Board of Directors Martin Edelman, Alberto Galassi, John MacBeath, Mohamed Mazrouei, Simon Pearce | Honorary Presidents Eric Alexander, Sir Howard Bernstein, , Raymond Donn, Ian Niven MBE, Tudor Thomas | Life President Halford Manager Pep Guardiola | Assistants Rodolfo Borrell, Manel Estiarte Club Ambassador | | Head of Football Administration Andrew Hardman

Premier League/Football League (First Tier) Champions 1936/37, 1967/68, 2011/12, 2013/14 HONOURS Runners-up 1903/04, 1920/21, 1976/77, 2012/13, 2014/15 | Division One/Two (Second Tier) Champions 1898/99, 1902/03, 1909/10, 1927/28, 1946/47, 1965/66, 2001/02 Runners-up 1895/96, 1950/51, 1988/89, 1999/00 | Division Two (Third Tier) Play-Off Winners 1998/99 | European Cup-Winners’ Cup Winners 1970 | FA Cup Winners 1904, 1934, 1956, 1969, 2011 Runners-up 1926, 1933, 1955, 1981, 2013 | League Cup Winners 1970, 1976, 2014, 2016 Runners-up 1974 | FA Charity/Community Shield Winners 1937, 1968, 1972, 2012 | FA Youth Cup Winners 1986, 2008

3 WALLPAPER PICTURE: VICTORIA HAYDN/PA

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME WALLPAPER Strolling along the Great Wall of China last month were (from left) City’s , , Nicolas Otamendi and Sergio Aguero...

05 PEP GUARDIOLA

Before I say anything else, I would like to thank game. We will leave nothing on the pitch in the you, the fans, for the very warm welcome you attempt to do that. We owe ourselves and our have given both to me and to my staff. fans that.

The reception has been very humbling. What I I will be seeing and visiting places and stadiums want most of all is after each game, and after that are unfamiliar to me but the great help for the ends, City supporters saying that me is that I have coaches with me who know the they have enjoyed the football. That is the most very well and who know English important thing. football inside-out. Also, everyone at the club is geared to helping the team succeed. We all want to make you proud of your team. The players and the staff need you. We cannot Of course the aim is to win titles but the season do it alone. is only beginning and in football this is the time that everyone has a lot of hope in their hearts. I’m here because the Premier League is a huge What I will say is that I have big expectations. challenge. I proved myself in Barcelona and again in Germany and now I want to prove I am very pleased with our work in pre-season myself here with my staff and amazing players. and very, very pleased with the behaviour of all of our players. We have worked hard this summer creating the spirit and atmosphere that we want; we have We speak and we train, we help each other made some important signings and most of them to see if we can press and build up from the – but not all – have been young players. They will goalkeeper. make a big impact here for many seasons. We have to try to help each other and go forward Of course it takes time to integrate new faces and be aggressive without the ball. I like to see into a club and a different environment but all the fi ght when we don’t have the ball because those we have signed are top professionals and without that we can’t win anything. good people. To know the players well you have to live with I want each of my players to be a good them, every day in training. Eat with them teammate – this is the most important quality. I and talk to them. I think in terms of spirit and like a player who thinks about himself but also character we will be a real team and as I have about the group and Manchester City. We are all said before, that’s what I want. working here to make this club better. I don’t like Today we face Sunderland who have had a the guys to think about what the club can do for change of leadership in the summer. Big Sam them. We are here to help Manchester City to has gone to manage – a great honour become a better club over the upcoming years for him and I wish him well in his new role. and hopefully that is what you will see. is now in charge at the Stadium I know how hard the Premier League is; it is a of Light and I know he will be ready for today’s tough league in which to put together lots of challenge. He has a lot of experience in the wins back-to-back. That is a challenge. There Premier League. are many teams who can fi nish in fi rst place and the competition will be fi erce. I welcome him and his staff and hope everyone enjoys the game. We won’t win every game because football isn’t so simple but for sure will be trying to win every

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME “We all want to make you proud of your team. The players and the staff need you. We cannot do it alone”

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PRECIOUS STONES City added the considerable talents of John Stones in midweek – here we meet the talented England star… WORDS: DAVID CLAYTON PICTURES: PA

It was a transfer rumour that persisted all summer – John Stones to Manchester City. “I can’t reallty But as the months rolled on and the season describe how I’m grew ever closer, it seemed as though it might be no more than newspaper speculation – feeling right now. until the story fi nally broke on Tuesday that England’s young defender had swapped navy I can’t wait to blue for sky blue by signing for City. get going” Pep Guardiola had fi nally got his man – a central defender who oozes class, has pace and will bring the ball out from the back with grace and purpose. He is, of course, one of many stellar young talents to commit to City, joining the likes of Leroy Sané, and Moreno...

England international Stones penned a six- year deal which will keep him at the Etihad Stadium until at least 2022 and by that time, the Yorkshire-born 22-year-old is tipped to be one of the world greats. Though as a grounded youngster having served his apprenticeship, he knows the really hard work is just beginning…

Stones spent more than three years at Everton where he built a reputation as a classy centre- half who always seems to have time on the ball. Calm in possession and relaxed under

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME 11 OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME pressure, it’s no coincidence that most of to make 28 appearances in total for the South Europe’s top clubs had been closely watching Yorkshire side. Everton were among the fi rst his progress at . to recognise his potential and snapped him up on a fi ve-and-a-half-year deal on the fi nal day He represented England at Under-19, of the 2013 January . Under-20 and Under-21 level before making his senior debut on 30 May 2014 in a 3-0 Stones didn’t make his senior debut for the friendly victory over Peru at Wembley. He Toffees until the following season when, on made his competitive debut for the Three 28 August 2013, he appeared in the League Lions in the Euro 2016 qualifying opener Cup win over Stevenage. His Premier League against Switzerland where ’s bow followed a month later as a late substitute side got off to the perfect start with a 2-0 away in their 1-0 victory against Chelsea – one of win. John was then included in the squad for 26 appearances that campaign. In 2014/15 the fi nals this summer – though did not play. he earned a nomination for Europe’s “” award – a title that eventually went to Rising up from the youth ranks at his his new teammate, , though hometown club , Stones went on to he was voted the Toffees’ Young Player make his professional debut for the Tykes of the Year. Last season, Stones made 41 against Reading on 17 March 2011, going on appearances in all competitions, occasionally fi lling in at full-back during a diffi cult campaign for the Goodison Park outfi t. Now, after a “I rang my mum and summer of uncertainty, Stones has fi nally arrived at the Etihad and become the squad’s all my family to say I new number 24. The likeable youngster admits that he is still pinching himself that the move can’t believe that I’m has actually happened. here playing for such “I’m shocked and speechless. I can’t really a big club and the best describe how I’m feeling right now. There’s a lot of people to tell and pure excitement. I manager in the world. can’t wait to get going. I rang my mum and It all seems so surreal” all my family to say I can’t believe that I’m here playing for such a big club and the best manager in the world. It all seems so surreal. It will take a few weeks to settle in and get my head around everything but I’m super excited.

“My family are all just so proud. I don’t think they realise what’s happening, either! Everything happened so quickly. You get a call one minute and then you’re here. They’re just so proud of me and will defi nitely be coming to the games.”

So why City? Stones says there were many reasons, though the chance to play for Pep proved too much to resist.

“I’ve spoken to a lot of the boys here – like and Raheem Sterling – and they wanted me to come. I expressed my feelings that I wanted to come and obviously the manager

13 was a big part of that. I want to come and help Like any defender worth his salt it’s all about the team and help win trophies. keeping goals out and if City don’t concede, he’ll go home happy each time. “They said, ‘We need you, we want you here and with all the boys you’ll settle in quickly’. “Clean sheets are my target – and lots of They didn’t try and persuade me too much, I them! I’ll try and express myself and play how was kind of sold already, but we get along so I’ve always been playing. I hope that’s what well so I’m sure when we’re in training it’ll feel the club has seen in me while I was at Everton like home and I’ve only been here a few hours and with England. I’m going to be as confi dent but it does feel good already. as I can and I’m going to do everything I can for the team to win each game. “I can’t wait to start the new season. I’m really looking forward to it. It’s a new chapter for me “It defi nitely feels like a new era at City and personally and it’s an exciting time for City. that’s one of the things that attracted me to I think the fi rst game today is a big one. I’ve come. The youthfulness of the club and the been following City’s progress in pre-season excitement of it. I like watching football as and hopefully we can hit the ground running much as any other person does so for me to and get off to a good start. Hopefully I can play with the players that are here and the help the team to win titles.” exciting players that are coming through as

“The fi rst game today is a big one. I’ve been following City’s progress in pre-season and hopefully we can hit the ground running and get off to a good start”

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Available in 10 languages “This season? I’m quietly confi dent that we’ll defi nitely be up there” well, it’s only going to benefi t me and take me came to one of the games last season against to the next level. All the boys are top players Real Madrid. It was just pure excitement – and if we gel together, I’m sure we can do from watching it at home on TV to actually something special.” being at a game is a totally different experience. From people I have spoken to The “Guardiola factor” has been a strong pull who have played in the Champions League for many players and Stones is no different. they say it’s so different and so special. I think The prospect of playing for a who has those are the moments that I’ll cherish playing nurtured some of the best talent in the world in and I really want to play how I do and bring excites him. something different to the team that will take us to the next level. “I hope he can bring out everything in me. I know that there’s a lot of room for “As for this season, I’m quietly confi dent that improvement to my game so it is 110 per cent we’ll defi nitely be up there. There’s a lot of the right decision to play under him. I’m so strong teams and everyone is buying new thankful that I’m getting the opportunity players. It’s exciting times for everyone in to come here and play with the best the Premier League. We all know that and improve day in, day out. He’s there are no easy games but I think we a winner and I think that’s what’s have a great chance of going far and going to rub off on everyone. I just want to get going. The more we talk about it the more I want it “To be able to play Champions to come and I can’t wait to play in League football is another front of the City fans – it’s going to massive plus. I actually be fantastic!”

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292971 LG MCFC Match Day Programme 148x210mm.indd 1 06/08/2015 11:03 SHOWCASE #1 Club photographer Victoria Haydn shares some of her favourite shots and memories...

As this is fi rst Showcase, I wanted to take you back to the fi rst shot I took at the club. I was at my Wythenshawe apartment at the time and with my hungry tummy rumbling I placed a tray of potato smiley faces in the oven (how good were these!?) My phone rang and it was our editor-in-chief, Chris Bailey, to tell me that thenthen club photographer Sharon Latham was still away travelling with the team so could I head to the Etihad Stadium and photograph a new signing. The smileys had to wait! I drove to the stadium as fast as I could and was introduced to the wonderful . What a gentleman! And what a pleasure he was to photograph. Using my camera that saw me though college, my Canon 1DS, I snapped away loving every second. I may have shot it differently now, but photographing Jack behind the scenes was the best part of the day and having it as my fi rst image taken at City was a proud moment. I had a lot to learn but this was the start of my journey…

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19 BUZZWORD CLUB AMBASSADOR MIKE SUMMERBEE ON THE COMBINED THRILLS OF A NEW CAMPAIGN, A NEW MAN IN THE DUGOUT, AND OF SIGNINGS TO GLADDEN AN OLD WINGER’S HEART...

Here we go again; the excitement, the We have made some exciting additions to the expectation, the hopes and fears for a new squad since the end of last season, most of season are all present and correct. Even writing them already full internationals and many of them these notes I can feel the anticipation and thrill young enough to make and impact and form the that all football fans get when August rolls up. backbone of the City side for years to come.

This time around, of course, we have the added Every squad evolves and time waits for no one. expectancy of what Pep Guardiola and his staff It is always sad to wave goodbye to a popular will bring to the club. I have watched Pep work player, or see one that has been instrumental in at close quarters over the summer, attended us winning trophies pushed from centre-stage many training sessions and been on the tour to into the wings, but it’s a natural thing. And after China and I can categorically say he will make being criticised in some quarters for being an a gigantic impact on the pitch and through the “old” squad last season, the deals this summer whole club. have clearly brought down the average age. I know some of them have been loaned straight His desire, his attention to detail and his man out but they will all be banking important management will galvanise everyone with whom experience and should improve for their time he comes into contact. away from here.

Everyone knows he is one of the most innovative and successful coaches there has even been and Raheem Sterling I for one can’t wait to sit back and enjoy the next few seasons.

We must accept, however, that he is not here to wave a magic wand. Everything isn’t going to perfect in the fi rst two months of him being here. We will not see his preferred best starting XI and the evolution of tactics until we get into the season.

One thing for sure is that if I was still playing I would be listening intently to what he has to say, hanging on every word and making sure I carried out his instructions to the maximum of my ability. I think there is no doubt he can improve every player in the squad whether that be in terms of technique, application, tactical awareness or all of those things.

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME The other thing that pleases this old winger is successfully fought hard to stay in the league that Pep has brought in an abundance of wide last season and that has waved goodbye to the players with pace. He preaches getting to the aforementioned Big Sam. goal-line and constantly urges his team to get behind the opposition. David Moyes is, of course, no stranger to the Etihad and his desire to beat City is well I have no doubt whatsoever that Raheem Sterling documented. He and his Sunderland team will – to my eye disgustingly treated by a small want to spoil Pep’s first match and it will be an section of our national media in the summer – intriguing contest – but that is exactly why we all will improve leaps and bounds under Pep. I think love the English game so much. he has been waiting for someone to put an arm around him and coax him back to his electrifying Enjoy the match everyone and get ready for an best. John Stones is another exciting young exciting season. English talent who will improve immeasurably for working with Pep. So will Leroy Sané who has the kind of pace no defender in the world like to face.

I have no doubts about all of them being better players and wiser players at the end of the season. I am sure that – in his capacity as the new England manager – will be taking in plenty of City games this season. He will also be watching to see if blossoms after an injury-hit start to his career at the Etihad. Certainly the former Villa man has looked super fit in pre-season. I don’t know much about some of the other signings but if they have Pep’s seal of approval then they must be part of the grand plan and who are we to question that?!

Of course it’s important to get off to the best possible start, stay in touch at the top of the Premier League table and earn a place in the group stages of the Champions League. All that starts today against a Sunderland side that

“If I was still playing I would be listening intently to what Pep Guardiola has to say, hanging on every word and making sure I carried out his instructions to the maximum of my ability”

21 SEQUENCES & LINKS GARY JAMES ON CITY’S RECORD SEQUENCES AND LINKS. TODAY: A 15-MAN THREAD THROUGH CITY’S HISTORY.

I’m always keen to fi nd links David Robson (1890 to 1896) between today’s City and the Played in the club’s fi rst recognised competitive game – when key players of the past and so the team was called Ardwick. This was the 12-0 victory over for the fi rst issue of the season Stanley in the FA Cup in October 1890. Robson also I set myself the task of trying to played in the Alliance League for Ardwick in 1891/92 and was an fi nd connections from a player in ever-present in their fi rst ever Football League season (1892/93). the club’s fi rst competitive game He remained with Ardwick until 1894 and, after a brief spell at in 1890 through to the Premier Wolves, he joined the newly established Manchester City FC in League successes of today. November 1894. He was the only member of the 1890 team to play in City’s inaugural season of 1894/95. The idea was to see how few players I could fi nd to form a chain through the decades. The rules were that each connecting player (1894-1906, Irvine Thornley (1904-12) had to participate in a competitive 1915-19 and 1921-24) First played with Meredith game with the next player and that First played with Robson on on 9 April 1904. Glossop every season had to be covered 8 December 1894 and went butcher Thornley scored 93 from 1890, when the club played on to become the fi rst true goals in 203 appearances its fi rst FA Cup game as Ardwick, star of Manchester City. A for the Blues. He also to today (including the wartime major celebrity in his day, appeared for England. seasons of 1915-19 and 1939-46). Meredith captained City to their fi rst major honour in The result of the search was that I 1904 (the FA Cup – he also identifi ed 15 players linking 1890 scored the only goal). to the start of this season. There were three major periods where it was diffi cult to fi nd continuity – the period 1905-1907 when 17 fi rst team players were suspended; and the periods 1983-1990 and 1996- Jim Goodchild (1911-27) 2002 when managerial changes First played with Thornley and relegations/promotions on 25 November 1911. meant a rapid turnover of players. Goodchild played in every Nevertheless, connections were season of regional football found and at least one of the for City during World War I following 15 men has appeared for and was an outstanding the Blues in every season of the keeper for the Blues. club’s existence the players are....

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Sam Cowan (1924-35) (1932-49) (1958-76) First played with Goodchild First played with Cowan on First played with on 7 February 1925. Cowan 13 January 1934 (in the FA Trautmann on 14 captained City to consecutive Cup). Swift played in every November 1959. Oakes FA Cup finals, lifting the season of regional football has appeared in more trophy in 1934, and he for City during World War II. games for City than any also guided the Blues to Often viewed as the greatest other player – making promotion as manager in City keeper of all time by 676 appearances 1947. He remains the only those who saw both Swift (plus four as a sub) in player to appear and Trautmann at their peak, games regarded as in three FA Cup Swift was an immensely competitive fixtures finals for City. popular City and England at the time they captain. He was killed in the occurred. air disaster in 1958.

Bert Trautmann (1949-64) First played with Hart on 4 February 1950. City’s brilliant German keeper became a truly legendary figure.

Johnny Hart (1944-63) First played with Swift on 10 January 1946 (FA Cup). Had Hart not missed the 1958/59 and 1959/60 seasons through a series of injuries he would have linked directly with Oakes, as the two played together in 1960.

23 (2000-09) First played with Bishop (1973-86) (1986-98) on 25 November 2000. First played with Oakes on 27 First played with Paul Kevin Horlock was also a August 1975. The consistent Simpson on 23 August link between Brightwell and face of City throughout the 1986. Only two league Dunne. Dunne was City’s period from 1976 to 1986. games separated Power and captain during a period Brightwell from appearing in of consolidation in the the same team. Premier League.

Paul Simpson (1982-88) First played with Power on 2 October 1982. Simpson was (2008-present) a member of City’s talented First played with youth team of the 1980s. Dunne on 13 September 2008.

Ian Bishop (1989 and 1998-2001) First played with Brightwell on 30 August 1989 and also overlapped in 1998/99 season. A cult hero in his fi rst spell at City and a much-needed experienced fi gure in his second spell.

If you have any ideas for sequences or links you would like exploring in a future City programme please email [email protected]

Gary James is a member of International Sport & Leisure History at Manchester Metropolitan University. Follow him on Twitter @garyjameswriter and facebook.com/garyjames4

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27 BEHIND THE SCENES EASTERN PROMISE Underlining the concept of football as a truly global sport, City broke new ground by spending part of their pre-season in China – and therefore launched the 2016/17 kit in truly exotic surroundings, all photographed by Victoria Haydn...

The skipper leads the squad through arrivals at Beijing airport.

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME Nicolas Otamendi, Samir Nasri, Sergio Aguero and Kelechi Iheanacho show off the new City kits on the Great Wall of China.

29 Aleks Kolarov signing autographs for the local fans. Below: Billy O’Brien, and Joe Hart talking with goalkeeping coach ... The squad training at the Shenzhen Stadium... Kolarov and in training... Fernandinho leading the team out for the game with Dortmund.

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Sergio Aguero collecting the Man of the Match award.

31 BBC 6 Music DJ Marc Riley heads south of the border (after going east into North Yorkshire). Like you do... WORDS: MARC RILEY PICTURES: VICTORIA HAYDN/PETER HARDY/ TOM LAWSON-CORNEY

First, a Public Service Announcement. My fi rst since worn it at two festivals and now, at the column of the season has a distinct Mexican grand old age of 55, I at last have an image! theme... I hope you like it (see below).

No I haven’t been gorging myself on nachos and I To continue with the Mexican theme (bear with haven’t bought a sombrero. Well, not quite. While me) I didn’t really think it possible for our new DJing recently at a festival in North Yorkshire manager Pep Guardiola to go up any more in (where else) I found myself drawn to a stall which, my estimation but having just read an article for reasons best known to itself, was fruitfully in a broadsheet about the end of his playing stocked with a highly impressive array of masks. career and the beginning of his managerial But not your usual Frankenstein/werewolf/ career it soared! Freddie Kruger horror masks. No – these were much scarier than that. These were MEXICAN If you don’t know the story, Pep fi nished his WRESTLER MASKS! Straight away I knew I HAD playing days at Dorados de Sinaloa in Mexico. TO HAVE ONE… but which one!??? He went there not for a fi nal big pay-day (quite the opposite in fact)but to study under Juan After much dithering I went for that old favourite Manuel Lillo, a coach he respected, admired, the Mexican Wrestler’s Chicken Mask. I have and humbly thought he could learn from. In his

“Thanks to my Mexican Wrestler’s Chicken Mask... at the grand old age of 55, I at last have an image!”

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME time there he was heroically overly generous to experience therein. One can only hope that with his team-mates and club staff, he trained in the certain elements of this infl ux comes a new-found most basic of facilities imaginable. All this while sense of dignity and humility. happily living in a city that was home to the most notorious and deadly crime syndicates in the Talking of “dignity”, at this point I’d like to thank history of… crime syndicates! for bringing silverware to the club and wish him all the best for It was like the Wild West (if you a successful future. I’d also like to think I’m exaggerating watch the thank the outgoing players who have fi lm Sicario). The story almost has served the club… and welcome the the air of an Ian Fleming spy novel, new faces. where Pep makes Mr Bond look like a genial welder. To say I’m a fan of Last season you may (let’s make Pep Guardiola’s would be a massive that “probably don’t”) remember that understatement. whilst on holiday I sub-let my column to The Secretive Footballer. If you The only downside I can see in relation don’t know who he is, he is exactly to having PG steering our ship is the that. A secretive hugely successful inevitable slew of inane headlines hell former world-class footballer who bent of squeezing every last drop of knows all the top inside stories and available ‘punnage’ around his name. gossip but cannot reveal his true PEP TALK this…PEP TALK that…PEP identity. So popular did his tenure ME UP… TOP OF THE PEPS… PEP prove to be that I’ve decided to STAR… LOLLY PEP (this one I predict regularly hand over a small section alluding to the £££s spent on a world-class of this column to our mystery snitch… without player)… Hang on a minute…I’m doing their jobs actually having to pay him to do so. RESULT! for them here – UNPAID! Stop it, Marc! So that’s all you’re getting from me today… all Much has been written about the infl ux of world that remains to be said is UP THE BLUES! and class managers who have come to the Premier WELCOME TO MANCHESTER, PEP! Now, over League this season. A cascade of talent and to you The Secretive Footballer... the secretive IT’S NOT WHAT YOU KNOW… footballer IT’S WHO YOU KNOW! As you know I’m not one to gossip. I hate If my sources are right (which they could be) it gossip. If I did like gossip I’d be called ‘The seems like a “well known high profi le Premier Gossiping Footballer’ wouldn’t I? But I’m not, League footballer” has secretly been romancing am I? No, I am The Secretive Footballer. I’m so his brothers sister-in-law! Blatantly! Sometimes secretive even my dad doesn’t know who I am. in a pub and once in his own car! He once That is The (very) Secretive Footballer. Me. had the bare-faced cheek to introduce her as his wife. I can’t tell you his name, or hers… Having said that I couldn’t help but become “all or his (the other one)… Well, I could – but I’m ears” when recently one of my many inside- not going to because I am… THE SECRETIVE sources (or should that be “sauces”) told me a FOOTBALLER… Shhhhhush! “saucy nugget” that will inevitably one day soon possibly become a huge scandal that could Lots of love allegedly blow up in someone’s face…

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It wasn’t only our players in the European where they have created a kidswear fl oor which Championships and the Copa America who stocks everything a young City fan needs from had a busy summer – our retail team along with kits to posters, footballs to cuddly toys, it also Nike and Fanatics have been busy updating our features a redesigned boot room and shirt- stadium store ahead of today’s game. printing department.

The team has created a brand new experience in David Griffi n, retail manager said: “We are really store with new layouts and zoning, additional tills excited to be able to show off our new look City and you may notice the window displays are a Store to fans today. We re-opened on 14 July as little larger than they used to be! part of the home kit launch and the response to the store has been fantastic from fans. The shop The team have created a new-look ground fl oor is easier than ever to navigate and the kidswear and have increased the size of the shop fl oor by fl oor has been an incredibly popular addition to tightening up on window displays and adding the store.” some extra walls into the store, this has enabled them to create two dedicated womenswear Along with having a refresh, the store is full departments, one to Nike product and another to of hundreds of new products as we celebrate fashion and leisurewear. starting our new season with a brand new crest – make sure you pop in to see all the exciting new But the biggest changes can be found upstairs changes and products for yourselves…

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME 37 MEMORY LANE A visual trip back to ... PICTURES & WORDS: KEVIN CUMMINS

This is the start of our 14th season at what is now the Etihad Stadium. I think it’s fair to say that nobody in their wildest dreams would have expected City to have come so far in such a short period.

Many fans still have a deep love for Maine Road, though, and it was a privilege for me – as a fan – to be commissioned to photograph and produce the book which I called We’re Not Really Here commemorating our fi nal season at the old ground, 2002/03. Here’s a selection of photos I took that season. The book has long been out of print but recently

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PICTURES & WORDS: KEVIN CUMMINS

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME 39 the publisher found some in storage. If anyone is interested in purchasing a copy, please email me at [email protected] – thanks.

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OWN CITY Our record against clubs currently outside the top four divisions… WORDS: DAVID CLAYTON PICTURES: PA

With the two clubs’ paths rarely crossing, City York took great heart from the fact that City and York City have met on just four occasions. apparently didn’t relish playing lower league And as The Minstermen tamely went out of opposition. Predictably, perhaps, this proved League Two last season it could be a while another diffi cult evening for the Blues as – in before the next meeting – unless the Blues are front of a packed crowd of 15,360 – York were paired with York in the FA Cup! good value for the 0-0 draw that earned the Yorkshire side a Maine Road replay. The fi rst meeting between City and York was on a chilly November evening in 1973 when Johnny Boss Hart’s ill-health meant was Hart’s side travelled to Bootham Crescent. The in charge for the return game when a City side Blues had laboured past Walsall and Carlisle including , Mike Summerbee and United in the previous rounds and Third Division fi nally clicked into gear and beat

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME York 4-1, courtesy of a hat trick. underlined how difficult it was for City at that Lee scored the other and City eventually went level, with indicating the Blues were all the way to the final, losing 2-1 to Wolves. everybody’s “cup final”. Meanwhile, at the end of the 1973/74 season York won promotion to the second tier for the Former City keeper Bobby Mimms was in goal first time. It would, though, be 25 years before for York that day and he recalled: “It was a big City and York again locked horns… deal playing City for every team in the division. Building up to the game, it was the talk of the That was on 19 December 1998, with the Blues town and, of course, our lads wanted to claim relegated from the top two divisions for the very City’s scalp. I had been at in the first time. They were finding life difficult in the Second Division when Jack Walker brought third tier of English football so a trip to struggling in as manager in the early- York City was probably the last thing Joe Royle 1990s, so I knew what City were going through. and his beleaguered side needed. Indeed, just Everybody wants to beat the big or wealthy two minutes in and City were 1-0 down as clubs.” Gordon Connolly rifled home a rising shot to send the home fans wild. It was a pivotal moment not only in the season, but in City’s history as the side won the next Royle’s men fought back with Craig Russell’s cross- game away to and set off on a run come-shot sailing over the York keeper to send that would see a steady ascent of the table. the teams into the break on level terms. Though Like a racehorse timing its run through the pack the Blues dominated much of the game, when perfectly, City lost just two of the next 23 games Allsopp missed a chance to win the game and consolidated a Play-Off place with a 4-0 win late on, teenage York striker Andy Dawson struck over The Minstermen at Maine Road on the final at the other end to give York a famous 2-1 win. day of the league programme. Victory brought revenge for the earlier season loss, but the truth The result saw City plummet to 12th – an all- is York – unknowingly, maybe – played a big part time low for the club – but the York performance in City’s revival.

43 SHORT STAY Players whose star shone only briefly at City… WORDS: DAVID CLAYTON PICTURE: PA

MAURIZIO GAUDINO 1994-95 APPS: 20 GOALS: 3

Enigmatic German midfielder Maurizio Gaudino a 5-1 win. Though Gaudino was blossoming added a touch of flair and invention to the Blues’ in England, he still had issues in Germany that midfield with his exotic array of flicks, tricks and needed to be resolved, including a suspended skill. Gaudino arrived at City with a colourful jail term he was handed for his alleged reputation, looking like a rock star off the pitch involvement in car theft gang. Meanwhile, his and playing with the panache and style of a on-pitch antics left City fans demanding he be maverick on it. signed permanently.

Before joining City, his performances for His stooping headed goal against Liverpool brought him to the attention helped the Blues to a rare 2-1 win over the of the German national team and he was Merseysiders but – despite 20 games, a host included in the World Cup squad for USA ’94. of top-notch displays and three goals under his But a fall-out with his club coach led to a refusal belt – the agreed £1.5m option to make the move to play against SV Hamburg and a subsequent permanent was never taken up as Horton was suspension followed. It was deemed best for all sacked by the Blues at the end of 1994/95. It parties that a move was the best immediate left Gaudino in limbo as City spent the summer solution. City boss was alerted to looking for a new manager. Gaudino’s availability and a deal was agreed with City. When it became clear that a permanent move was not going to materialise, he instead joined Leaving the controversy behind him and arriving Mexican club America on loan and with Georgian at Maine Road with a clean slate to play for Georgi Kinkladze signed a few weeks before the Horton must have been like a breath of fresh start of the new season, it justified his decision to air for Gaudino, who settled quickly and soon seek pastures new – but left City fans to wonder formed a bond with the City fans who, of course, what might have been if he and Kinkladze had love nothing more than a touch of je ne sais quoi both signed... about their midfielders. Maurizio later had spells with FC Basel, VfL Gaudino signed a six-month deal on December Bochum and and is today the 21, 1994 and made his debut in a surprise director of football with SSV Reutlingen 05, a Coca-Cola Cup win at Newcastle United just third tier German side. While City fans enjoyed three days later. He scored his first goal against his time at Maine Road, many still wonder why Notts County in an FA Cup replay in which fellow this mercurial talent didn’t quite reach the heights German Uwe Rösler scored the other four during his ability merited.

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME Gaudino scored his first goal SHORT STAY against Notts Players whose star shone only briefly at City… County in a 5-1 FA Cup replay win in which MAURIZIO GAUDINO 1994-95 fellow German APPS: 20 GOALS: 3 Uwe Rösler scored the other four

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51 1 “Happy 70th birthday to our for 13 July – and in the Legends 9 “Happy first birthday to City fan dad Alan Graham. AG a big at today’s match. Love from Ava Rose Bailey for 23 August. Dukinfield Blue. Lots of love from Helen, Anthony and James x.” Lots of love from both your Joanna, Alan and Rachel xx.” 5 “Happy birthday to James mummys and all your family xxx.” 2 Andy Kirwan turns 40 on Dixon. We hope you enjoy the Birthday wishes to George Sunday 21 August and to day – with love from dad, Carole, (Smudger) Smith, a long-time celebrate is being treated to a day Charlotte and Heather x.” supporter and season ticket out (today!) to see Pep’s first game 6 “Happy 18th birthday to Adam holder, who celebrated his 80th in charge. “He is a respectable Morrey for tomorrow and good on 4 August. member of society and father of luck representing England in the Celebrating his 50th birthday at two – so here is a picture of him snooker championships in Belgium,” the match today is David Martin, with an afro and a skull!” love from grandad and Jill. a lifetime City fan. We hope you 3 “Congratulations to Kenny 7 To Mark Pook... have a have a great day! and Alison Simpson who are fantastic 50th birthday! Love 10 “Happy 10th birthday, Mattie.” celebrating their 10th wedding from Julie and Jason plus all your anniversary.” 11 Happy 65th birthday today to family and friends xxx. Paul Bannaghan, a season ticket “Wishing you a happy birthday, 8 “Happy 70th birthday wishes holder originally from Gorse Hill in Dad. Love from Tom and Hollie xx.” to our wonderful dad Gordon but now living in Perth, “Happy 10th wedding anniversary Billingsley. Have a fantastic Scotland – and still travelling to to you, Kenny. Always have, day and enjoy the match. Love every home game. He was on the always will. Love from Als xx.” from Paul, Lesley, Jackie and pitch at St James’ when City won 4 “Happy birthday, Tom Griffiths, Angie xxx.” the league in 1968 after being to

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OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME Messages should be emailed to [email protected] at least 10 days before the required game. Please note that we cannot guarantee inclusion and due to the quantity of messages received we are unable to reply to confirm receipt… every game home and away that presented with a City shirt on his SADLY MISSED season and was in Vienna for the retirement after 45 years service 18 Ronald Caiger passed with the NHS. He has been a Cup-Winners Cup final in 1970. away on 22 June aged 90. He season ticket holder for the past “To Mike Roberts, happy 60th is pictured on his 90th birthday 35-40 years. birthday for Friday. Lots of love with his daughter Denise and from Jackie, Callum, Jess and 15 “Happy ninth birthday, Harvey. son Andrew. He passed his Will xxx.” Love from mum, dad, Jacob, Lily love of City onto his children, Happy 74th birthday to lifelong and George xxx.” grandchildren and great- City fan Beryl Meredith – 16 Here’s Nick Stafford, grandchildren. Ronald will be from husband Ron, kids and proudly wearing his new badge sadly missed by all his family. grandkids, celebrating in the at his Manchester Met (MMU) “In loving memory of Paul 1894 bar. graduation ceremony. Melia. A true inspiration and an 12 Dave Moran is pictured 17 Alan Duncalf is celebrating incredible man who really did here with grandsons Daniel and his 62nd birthday. Here he is fight till the end! There will always Joshua Crows and Joe Moran. with daughter Jessica and be a Blue Moon in your heart and 13 Wishing Jacob Bridgehouse granddaughter Lilly, all lifelong a Blue flag by your side. a happy seventh birthday. He City fans and Seasoncard holders Jason Gibbs was involved in loves going to home and away in the Family Stand. an accident on 22 July and matches and playing every week “A warm welcome to my girlfriend sadly passed away aged 44 the in East Manchester League for Ausra – and Pep Guardiola. following day. A lifelong devoted CS City and Woodley Albion. And the very best to the future! City fan, he is sadly missed by all 14 Edward Mawjeski was Signed T Leonard.” his family and friends.

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MCWFC SUPPORTERS BRANCH 40th anniversary year. A great 1 The next Manchester City 3 A big MCFC welcome today to time was had by all. Women’s home game at the Sam Grant who is attending his CFA is on Sunday 28 August at first game – coming over from MID BLUES 12.15pm, perfect timing to take in Dublin with his daddy Tueart 7 A big happy birthday (for a game before the home Premier Grant and his grandad Andy August 6) to Carole Holt from League game with West Ham Grant, the chairman of the her husband Paul and all at which kicks off at 4pm. Dublin Branch. Have a great day, Mid Cheshire Supporters Club. Go to the Official Supporters Sam –all the best from everyone club website for up to date at City and the Supporters Club. REDDISH BLUES news and events. http:// 8 Pictured is Reddish Blues’ mcfcsupportersclub.co.uk/ WOODHOUSES BRANCH youngest member Harrison mcwfc/ 4/5 Happy birthday to Jim William Barclay, born on June 29. Maddison who, on August 6, He is seen with his dad David, COOKSTOWN BRANCH turned 80 years young! who sits with his dad Steve in the 2 It is with deep regret that Best wishes also to Tony Curran East Stand. Cookstown Branch mourns the who turned 58 last month. passing of their esteemed and BREDBURY BRANCH founder member Kevin Crilly. CHELTENHAM & 9 Happy 30th birthday wishes to Kevin was a lifelong City GLOUCESTER BRANCH Bredbury Blue Aaron Bosman for supporter and was instrumental 6 The Cheltenham & Gloucester August 27. Have a great day at in the formation of the branch. Branch enjoyed their annual trip the races, love from mum, dad, RIP Kevin. to Malta, celebrating the branch’s Joel and all your Blue family xxx.

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DUKINFIELD BRANCH and is a member of the Dukinfield all our love from Dave Leyland 10 Sean and Caz got married Supporters Club and travels to and the Buntings. on July 23 at St Athan village many home, away and abroad near Cardiff. Decked out in sky games despite living 200 miles BLUEBELLS BRANCH blue, 50 or so friends and family from the Etihad. All at the 11/12 Jake Hardman enjoyed travelled to the wedding from Dukinfield Branch wish him his Cityzens day out but couldn’t Manchester to celebrate their and his bride, and Harry-Joe, decide what he liked best, so nuptials. Sean is from all the best for the future. With when asked he said “everything!”. Bluebells welcome vice-chairman Eddie Sparrow and the new WIN A SIGNED AGUERO SHIRT! memorial flag to their annual #ManCitySummer AGM. MCFC Supporters Club are giving fans the chance to win a 2011/12 City shirt signed by the THANK YOU KAREN man who scored That Goal – Sergio Aguero! The Supporters Club committee and members would like to wish For your chance to win, all you need to do is follow Karen Wood, who recently stood on Twitter and tweet us a photo of you @mcfcsupportersc down as travel secretary, all the and/or your family with a piece of Manchester City merch best for the future. Thank you, with the hashtag ! #ManCitySummer Karen, for all the hard work and For more information and Terms & Conditions, go to www.mcfcsc.com effort you have put into filling the GOOD LUCK! travel secretary’s position over the years.

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61 AIMING HIGH EDS HEAD COACH SIMON DAVIES REVEALS HIS HOPES AHEAD OF THE NEW CAMPAIGN…

Simon Davies begins his first full campaign as and did really well, beating Liverpool in the semi- EDS head coach hoping to help the latest crop final and Borussia Dortmund in the final which of young talent progress to the senior squad. In proved that the talented boys that we have can pre-season, the wealth of emerging talent has do it against the best in the world. impressed Pep Guardiola who has used many of last season’s EDS squad as part of his build-up “The EDS team this season is going to be made to the new campaign. Davies, who took the reins up of 17-, 18- and 19-year-olds and they will be from last season, is understandably playing teams who have players up to the age pleased by the progress of his former charges. of 23 and potentially three players over the age of 23, too. The way we see it is that if any of our “It’s made everyone at the Academy very proud players were selected for the first team in the to see so many of the lads working with the next 12 to 18 months – whether here or on loan – first team. I think it is testament to the Academy they’d be up against men anyway, so they need staff – and not just the coaches – everybody who to be ready for it. works with the players has played their part and we’re all watching their progress closely. I think “I’ve no issues with tactical or technical ability what is particularly encouraging and important with our players and they are going to be for the players at the Academy and the players challenged physically for sure. Mentally, they we are trying to recruit is that it is clear that we are going to have to deal with that. We have a have been producing players who can take on wonderful group of players, not only those who new ideas and are very coachable. are with the first team, but those who are coming through from the Under-16s and -18s.” “All the lads who have done well in pre-season at senior level are good listeners, will take on new Davies insists that fans who come to watch the information and can adapt to whatever is asked EDS have a huge role to play this season, too. of them.” “The supporters are massively important to us City’s youngsters capped an impressive build-up at every level because they are the soul of the to the campaign by winning in Germany recently football club. But we have to look at what we’re and Davies says it is crucial that the emerging trying to achieve and the best way forward is to talent is constantly being challenged and tested. challenge and push the conveyor belt of talent we have. It’s nice to win with our younger age “We won a tournament in Dortmund and had a groups, but ultimately it’s all about getting them good training camp in Croatia prior to that with into the first team, either here or elsewhere and the Under-18s and Under-21 groups. We’ve to have a professional career.” also played Girona – against men – which is more in line with what we’ll face this season in And the coach’s expectations? “I think we can what is now the Under-23 league this season. In do well in the Champions League. I think we’ve Dortmund we were in an Under-19 competition got a group who can give it a good go and I want that included Real Madrid, Benfica and Schalke to put ourselves under pressure.”

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME WORDS: DAVID CLAYTON PICTURE: VICTORIA HAYDN

63 NEW MAN AT THE TOP NEW UNDER-18S HEAD COACH LOOKS FORWARD TO THE COMING SEASON…

Highly-rated youth coach Lee Carsley joined City or seven months with me and then going straight during the summer with moving to into the fi rst team, and I got a real buzz out of the role of Head of Coaching (Academy). that. I was put in temporary charge at Coventry for a brief spell but I decided quickly I needed to Carsley enjoyed a 17-year playing career at learn my trade properly rather than on the job. Derby County, Blackburn Rovers, Coventry City, City and Everton as well as earning “There are different ways of doing things, 40 full caps for the Republic of Ireland. Having learning and getting your point across – coached at Coventry, Sheffi eld United and ultimately it’s about developing relationships with Brentford, the 42-year-old joined the England the players because if you’re just barking at them youth set-up and was predominantly the Under- all the time it’s not going to work. It’s more about 19s coach before accepting the role at City. getting to know them and understanding them and working that way.” “I was in Mexico with the England Under-19s preparing for the European Championships Carsley is looking forward to the 2016/17 when I fi rst received a call from the club asking campaign and has settled quickly into his new whether I’d be interested in the position. It was surroundings at the CFA. an honour to have a club like Manchester City target me and I was delighted to accept the post. “I’ve spent a lot of time with Jason Wilcox and I’d been to the CFA before with England Under- Mark Allen and have been absorbing what’s 19s when we played Japan about six months expected here. It is not about just winning ago so I had a chance to have a good look games, but winning in a certain style and around and was obviously impressed. hopefully we can replicate the way the EDS and fi rst team play at Under-18 level. “Previous to England I had a brief spell as manager at Brentford in a caretaker capacity “We’ll have the youngest team in the division so but I decided that the senior route was not the the lads will defi nitely get tested both physically path I wanted to take and made it clear the and tactically so it’s important that we can not development side was something I wanted to only match teams technically and physically. focus on. I was actually put in charge of the There’s plenty of hard work ahead for the lads. senior side for 12 games and it went well and was a good experience. “We all want to win games and I’ve noticed with this group that winning is a big motivator – but “I always intended moving into coaching. I ultimately, as coaches, we’ve got to keep one started doing my badges when I was 30 or so eye on the future which is to get them in the and my fi rst coaching role was with the Under-18s fi rst team. Our aim is to get as many of the lads at Coventry City and because of the situation the through to the EDS and then on to the fi rst team club was in, some of the lads were spending six – ultimately that has to be our target.”

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IN OPPOSITION SUNDERLAND

MOYES MOVES IN departed for a week of further match action, THE CHALLENGE preparations in France, with friendlies against Sunderland and their In terms of tradition, although the journey Stade Nyonnais, new manager hit the support, and recent was not without a hitch. Dijon and Montpellier. ground running. And history, there are many Their plane had to make Pre-season was they needed to with similarities in the job an emergency landing then completed with the season only three that David Moyes is because of engine a visit to Austria weeks away when starting at Sunderland problems. to meet Borussia England came calling and the one he did so Dortmund, a 1-1 draw for Sam Allardyce. In France, there was successfully at Everton. with the For the club, the giants preserving an The task is to appointment of a undefeated record. turn potential into successor had to be achievement. As On returning home, swift. For David Moyes, he observed on his the priority was to there was precious little appointment: “It clear up an injury list time to assess and act wouldn’t be outrageous which included Jermain on the needs of his new to see Sunderland being Defoe, , squad. At that stage a regular top-10 team, Billy Jones and there were no additions but for some reason it . to a team that retained hasn’t happened. their Premier League “We need to do the status with two points work, get it right to spare. and give everybody There was hardly time something to shout for the new boss to about. We have to feel draw breath. Five that we’re not in this hours into the job, league just to survive he was watching as every year.” Sunderland won Pre-season preparations a friendly at were well advanced Rotherham. when he made the fi rst The next signing in the summer day the window, Sunderland squad paying £8m to Chelsea David Moyes for Papy Djilobodji. Younes Kaboul

Wahbi Khazri

TELLTALE TABLES SAVING GRACES The impact made by When Sam Allardyce each manager can be moved into the Stadium traced through before- of Light, charged with and-after tables in a reviving a team that seasons in which they was a point behind were appointed. Aston Villa, a respected Midlands journalist was MARTIN O’NEILL heard to say: “Villa have P W D L Pts just missed their best Dec 2011 14 2 5 7 11 In the final countdown Short and his advisers chance of staying up.” May 2012 38 11 12 15 45 to the Premier League can say their decisions Difference 24 9 7 8 34 The inference was kick-off, a transfer paid off. clear. With Allardyce, package was confirmed Mission achieved – five Sunderland most likely with Manchester United times out of five. P W D L Pts would be safe. Without for the 21-year-old Mar 2013 31 7 10 14 31 an Allardyce figure, Villa defenders Paddy McNair Sometimes on the short May 2013 38 9 12 17 39 could well be relegated. and in a haul, as with late-in-the- Difference 7 2 2 3 8 £5.5m package. season appointments The assessment proved to be spot on, of Paolo Di Canio and although it was not until , but more P W D L Pts March that Sunderland ALL CHANGE often the longer haul, Oct 2013 7 0 1 6 1 as with Martin O’Neill, A period of stability at May 2014 38 10 8 20 38 Gus Poyet and Sam the is Difference 31 10 7 14 37 Allardyce. perhaps overdue after DICK ADVOCAAT midstream management In particular Messrs P W D L Pts shuffling in each of the Poyet and Allardyce Mar 2015 29 4 14 11 26 last five seasons. arrived in the autumn May 2015 38 7 17 14 38 and transformed teams The pressure of Difference 9 3 3 3 12 who were locked in preserving Premier the bottom three, and League membership – SAM ALLARDYCE without a win, going into this is their 10th year P W D L Pts the October international in a row – was the Oct 2015 8 0 3 5 3 break. motivation, and in this May 2016 38 9 12 17 39 context owner Ellis Difference 30 9 9 12 36

69 Jack Duncan A 16-YEAR GOAL GLUT Rodwell Watmore At the age of 18, when on loan with AFC Bournemouth in Division Two, became the second of three players in the post-war period to score in 10 consecutive league matches. Happily, he was not a teenager who would be overburdened by expectation. Nearly 16 years later, now a few weeks off his 34th birthday, he can look back on 172 goals in league football in England and in excess of 270 when adding on those scored in cup football and with and England teams. found the necessary a move which led to Such quality comes at a price and in his case momentum. A spate ’s this totalled close to £30m for his three major of draws having kept transfer to Watford, and transfers – from West Ham to Tottenham, then to them in the fi ght, they took up a Portsmouth and back to . were over the line with wide attacking position. nine goals, three in each Sunderland got him in January 2015 in an By mid-January a raft game, in wins against exchange deal with and they were of new signings was , Chelsea and well in profi t last season. Starting with fi ve goals in in place. Lamina Koné Everton. the fi rst two games of 2016, he reached 11 in the went into the back second half of the campaign – and the team took After beating Everton four, initially alongside points from every game in which he scored from on a party night in front John O’Shea and later January to May. of 46,454, Allardyce in partnership with said: “It has been a long Younes Kaboul, while His contribution was recognised by the club’s few months, but we Bundesliga player Jan Player of the Year award and a 12-month contract turned into a team from Kirchhoff was given extension, taking him to his 36th birthday. January onwards.” a defensive midfi eld He begins this position. season on a On moving from France, career total of THE ROUTE brought 143 Premier TO SURVIVAL new fl air to the side, League goals, Having arrived between as well as a vital goal Jermain needing two Defoe transfer windows, against Chelsea in May, more for an Allardyce was restricted and former Hull striker outright top 10 in what he could do in Dame N’Doye was position since his fi rst three months in signed on a the league began the job. four-month in 1992. loan. Other than making on-loan Spurs full-back DeAndre Yedlin a fi rst- team regular, he could only tinker with the squad he had inherited. became fi rst-choice keeper,

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME LAST VISIT... Barclays Premier League Saturday 12 December 2015 MANCHESTER CITY 4 Sterling 12 Yaya Toure 17 Bony 22 De Bruyne 54 SUNDERLAND 1 Borini 59 HT 3-0 Att: 54,523 City: Hart, Sagna, Otamendi (Kompany 62) (Demichelis 71), Mangala, Kolarov, Fernandinho, Yaya Toure (Delph 62), Ex-Blue De Bruyne, Silva, Sterling, Bony. Niall Paolo Wanchope Unused: Caballero, Aguero, Quinn scored City’s first Jesus Navas, Clichy. made it Premier League Sunderland: Mannone, Jones, Coates, 1-1. hat-trick. O’Shea, Van Aanholt, Johnson, M’Vila (Cattermole 55), Gomez, Graham (Watmore 71), Fletcher (Lens 62), Borini. Unused: Pantilimon, Brown, THAT WAS THE DAY... Lens, Defoe, Toivonen. Sixteen years ago this month, with the dark days of a season at the third level still too close to be erased from the memory, City returned to the Premier League. After an opening-day bump, losing 4-0 on a visit to promotion partners Charlton Athletic, Sunderland were the opponents for the first top-flight fixture at Maine Road in five years. Straightaway, there was a piece of history – the first hat-trick scored by a City player in the Premier League. This distinction fell HEAD TO HEAD... to , the Costa Rican newly signed from West Ham OUR LEAGUE RECORD AGAINST for a reported sum of £3.65m. SUNDERLAND: P W D L F A On his home debut he scored after three minutes and Joe Royle’s HOME 65 42 11 12 136 82 AWAY 65 19 11 35 93 111 team went two up at the break thanks to Alf-Inge Haaland’s goal. TOTAL 130 61 22 47 229 193 But, as you would expect against Sunderland side managed by First met in league: 1899/1900 , it was not to be plain-sailing. Doubles achieved: 14 Doubles conceded: 8 Matt Lawton, writing in The Telegraph, noted that “lessons had Biggest wins: not been learned” from the Charlton experience. In a couple of Home: 5-0, 2010/11 minutes, midway through the second half, and Kevin Away: 5-2, 1907/08 and 1931/32 Phillips levelled for the Wearsiders. Thankfully for the Blues, Heaviest defeats: though, it was to be Wanchope’s day. Having restored City’s lead, Home: 2-5, 1952/53 Away: 2-5, 1923/24 and 1929/30 he completed his treble near the end. Last home win: 4-1, 2015/16 Unfortunately injuries were to curtail his contribution to the club, Last away win: 1-0, 2015/16 Last home draw: 2-2, 1913/14 although when he signed for Malaga in 2004, his 27 goals in 64 Last away draw: 1-1, 2009/10 league games here represented his best return at 10 clubs up to Last home defeat: 0-1, 1997/98 his final stop at Chicago Fire in 2007. Last away defeat: 0-1, 2013/14

ETIHAD LEAGUE MEETINGS | CITY 8 SUNDERLAND 0 DRAWS 2 05/06 07/08 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 15/16 2-1 1-0 1-0 4-3 5-0 3-3 3-0 2-2 3-2 4-1 Samaras 2 Ireland Richards Santa Cruz 2 Johnson Balotelli 2, Kolarov Fernandinho Yaya Toure Sterling Kyle Tevez pen Tevez pen 1 pen Aguero Nasri Jovetic Yaya Toure Bellamy Silva Kolarov Milner Wickham 2 Lampard Bony Mensah Vieira Larsson 2 Rodwell De Bruyne Henderson Yaya Toure Bendtner Johnson pen Borini Jones

71 SUNDERLAND ROLL CALL 2015/16 League Cups Total Birthplace Age Last club International apps apps goals Sweden 17 Academy Sweden U-17 - - - Fabio Borini Bentivoglio 25 Liverpool 22(4) 1 5 Stockton 28 Athletic England 27(4) 2(1) - Jermain Defoe 33 Toronto FC England 28(5) 1 18 Papy Djilobodji Kaolack 27 Chelsea Senegal --- Elliot Embleton Durham 17 Academy England U-17 --- Jordi Gomez Barcelona 31 Wigan Athletic Spain U-17 5(1) - - Santa Cruz 20 Academy USA U-20 - -(1) - Fabio Borini Rees Greenwood Sunderland 20 Academy England U-20 1 - - Prudhoe 21 Academy - -(1) - - Billy Jones 29 WB Albion England U-20 23(1) -(1) 1 Younes Kaboul Saint-Julien 30 Tottenham H France 22(1) - - Wahbi Khazri Corsica 25 Bordeaux Tunisia 13(1) - 2 Jan Kirchhoff Frankfurt 25 Bayern Munich Germany U-21 14(1) - - Lamine Kone Paris 27 Lorient 15 - 2 Sebastian Larsson Eskilstuna 31 Birmingham City Sweden 6(12) 1 - Amsterdam 28 Dynamo Kiev Netherlands 14(6) 2 4 Donald Love Rochdale 21 Manchester United Scotland U-21 - - - Lee Cattermole Paddy McNair Ballyclare 21 Manchester United N Ireland --- Vito Mannone Milan 28 Arsenal Italy U-21 19 1 - Charis Mavrias Zakynthos 22 Panathinaikos Greece - -(1) - John O’Shea Waterford 35 Manchester United Rep of Ireland 23(5) 3 - Washington 22 Academy England U-21 2 1 - Josh Robson Bedlington 18 Academy 14 2 1 Tom Robson Stanley 20 Darlington CoE - 1 - - Jack Rodwell Southport 25 Manchester City England 9(13) 2 3 Patrick van Aanholt Den Bosch 25 Chelsea Netherlands 33 3 4 Cheadle Hulme 22 Altrincham England U-21 7(16) 1(1) Jeremain Lens Own goals - - - 4 (Figures in brackets are substitute appearances). MANAGER... DAVID MOYES Born: , 25 April 1963

PLAYER Clubs: Celtic (1981-83), Cambridge United (1983-85), Bristol City (1985-87), Shrewsbury Town (1987-90), Dunfermline Athletic (1990-93), Hamilton Academical (1993), Preston North End (1993-98) League Record: 535 games, 46 goals Honours: Celtic (SPL, 1981/82), Bristol City (Freight Rover Trophy, 1985/86), Preston NE (Division Three, 1995/96)

MANAGEMENT Clubs: Preston North End (1998-02), Everton (2002-13), Manchester United (23013-14), (2014-15), Sunderland (July 2016 to date) Honours: Preston NE (Division Two, 1999/00), Manchester United (FA Community Shield, 2013) Individual: LMA Manager of the Year 2003, 2005 and 2009 PRE-SEASON... Above: Lamine League Record P W D L Pts Koné scoring Won 3-1 v Hartlepool (a) Preston North End 196 95 53 48 338 against Won 2-1 v Rotherham (a) Everton 427 173 123 131 642 Dortmund Won 2-0 v FC Stade Nyonnais (Evian-Les-Bains) Manchester United 34 17 6 11 57 in Austria. Won 3-2 v Dijon FCO (Evian-Les-Bains) Real Sociedad 38 11 13 14 46 Drew 1-1 v Montpellier (Ai-les-Bains) TOTAL 695 296 195 204 1083 Drew 1-1 v Borussia Dortmund (Altach, Austria)

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AD-105x148-FF 3G Pitches v4.indd 1 03/08/2016 10:57 EDS ACADEMY U-21 League *Cups U-18 League FAYC Apps Gls Apps Gls Apps Gls Apps Gls STATS 11(1) - 7 - 6 - 8 1 APPEARANCES AND Charlie Albinson - - - - 4(1) - - - Thierry Ambrose 6(1) 3 9 4 - - - - GOALSCORERS 2015/16 15(1) 3 2(1) - - - - - Myles Beerman - - - - 1 - - - FIRST TEAM League Cups Lewis Blackshaw - - - - 3(3) - - - Apps Gls Apps Gls Luke - - - - -(1) - - - Tosin Adarabioyo - - 1 - Mathias Bossaerts - - 1 - - - - - Sergio Aguero 29 (1) 24 13 (1) 5 Brahim Diaz -(1) - -(3) 1 11(3) 5 7(1) 4 Brandon Barker - - - (1) - 13(4) - 6 - - - - - 13 (13) 4 5 (3) 4 Isaac Buckley-Ricketts 5(1) 1 1 1 16(5) 13 3(4) 2 3 (1) - 9 (1) - Callum Bullock - - 1(1) - 16(6) 1 - - - (1) - 1 (2) - Sinan Bytyqi 12(2) 1 1 1 - - - - Bersant Celina 18 11 5 1 - - - - Gael Clichy 12 (2) - 13 (1) - Joe Coveney - - - - 6(1) 2 - - 22 (3) 7 12 (4) 9 Jacob Davenport - - 1 - 27 1 8 - Fabian Delph 8 (9) 2 6 (4) - Tom Dele-Bashiru - - - - 7(9) 1 -(2) - Martin Demichelis 10 (10) - 7 (4) 1 Sadou Diallo 1(2) - - - 13 - - - David Faupala - - 1 1 Javairo Dilrosun 1 - - - 16(1) 4 2(1) - Fernandinho 31 (2) 2 17 4 Demeaco Duhaney -(2) - 7 - 17 2 5 - Fernando 17 (7) 2 14 (4) - George Evans 2 - 2(1) - - - - - Aleix Garcia - - 1 - Zak Faour - - - - 3(2) 2 - - Manu Garcia - (1) - 1 (2) 1 David Faupala 8(8) 4 4(7) 1 - - - - Joe Hart 35 - 12 - Paolo Fernandes -(3) - -(1) - 15(6) 7 - - Cameron Humphreys - - - (2) - - - - - -(1) - - - Kelechi Iheanacho 7 (19) 8 4 (5) 6 Aleix Garcia 9(1) 3 6 - - - - - 25 (4) 3 8 (2) - Manu Garcia 7(1) 1 9(1) - 1 1 3 1 Vincent Kompany 13 (1) 2 7 (1) - George Glendon 19 - 4 - - - - - 23 - 8 (2) - - - 4 - 18 - 8 - Samir Nasri 4 (8) 2 1 - Angus Gunn 15 - 6 - - - - - Jesus Navas 24 (10) - 13 (5) 1 Joe Hardy - - - - -(5) 1 - - Nicolas Otamendi 30 1 18 (1) - Kjetil Haug - - - - 7 - - - - (1) - - (2) - James Horsfield 14(1) - 3(1) - - - - - 27 (1) - 15 (2) - Cameron Humphreys 8(5) - 6(1) - 7 - 6 - David Silva 22 (2) 2 12 2 Kelechi Iheanacho 1 ------Raheem Sterling 23 (8) 6 11 (5) 5 Jorge Intima 1(3) - 1 - - - - - Jose Angel Tasende (Angelino) - - - (1) - Ash Kigbu 1 - - - 15(2) - 1 - Rodney Kongolo 4(3) 1 4(3) - 15 2 8 3 Yaya Toure 28 (4) 6 14 (1) 2 Joel Latibeaudiere - - - - 5(1) - 2(1) - Pablo Zabaleta 12 (1) - 7 (2) - 3 ------Own goals - 3 Pablo Maffeo 7 - 5 - - - - - (Figures in brackets are substitute appearances). Aaron Nemane 4(6) - 9(2) 2 9(1) 3 7(1) 1 Cup figures include FA Cup, Capital One Cup, UEFA Champions League and FA Community Shield. Lukas Nmecha 4(1) 2 3(5) 1 19(4) 20 8 5 Billy O’Brien 3 - 2 - - - - - Charlie Oliver 1 - 4(2) - 22(2) 1 6(1) - Lukas Nmecha hit 28 Will Patching 3(2) - 3(2) 2 13(7) - 2 1 goals last season for the Under-18s and Ellis Plummer 5 - 3 1 - - - - Under-21s. Jose Angel Pozo 1 ------Patrick Roberts 1 1 5 1 - - - - - - - - 4(5) 7 -(2) - Erik Sarmiento -(1) - - - 7 - 3 - Matt Smith - - - - -(1) - - - Ashley Smith-Brown 15 3 5 - - - - - Jose Angel Tasende (Angelino) 11 1 2 - - - - - Sam Tattum 2(3) - 1 - - - - - Marcus Wood - - -(1) - 16(5) - 1(6) - Own goals - - - - - 1 - -

*Cups (EDS) = UEFA Youth League, Premier League International Cup and Manchester Senior Cup

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME FINAL PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE 2015/16

Home Attendances HOME AWAY Highest Average P W D L F A W D L F A GD PTS 29 32,242 32,021 1 Leicester City 38 12 6 1 35 18 11 6 2 33 18 +32 81 60,084 59,944 2 Arsenal 38 12 4 3 31 11 8 7 4 34 25 +29 71 36,084 35,776 3 Tottenham Hotspur 38 10 6 3 35 15 9 7 3 34 20 +34 70 For the 54,693 54,041 4 Manchester City 38 12 2 5 47 21 7 7 5 24 20 +30 66 second 75,415 75,279 5 Manchester United 38 12 5 2 27 9 7 4 8 22 26 +14 66 successive 31,688 30,782 6 Southampton 38 11 3 5 39 22 7 6 6 20 19 +18 63 season Sergio 34,977 34,910 7 West Ham United 38 9 7 3 34 26 7 7 5 31 25 +14 62 Aguero was 44,228 43,910 8 Liverpool 38 8 8 3 33 22 8 4 7 30 28 +13 60 the Premier 27,833 27,534 9 Stoke City 38 8 4 7 22 24 6 5 8 19 31 -14 51 League’s top 41,642 41,500 10 Chelsea 38 5 9 5 32 30 7 5 7 27 23 +6 50 scorer in all 39,598 38,124 11 Everton 38 6 5 8 35 30 5 9 5 24 25 +4 47 competitions, fi nishing 20,972 20,711 12 Swansea City 38 8 6 5 20 20 4 5 10 22 32 -10 47 with 29 – one 21,102 20,594 13 Watford 38 6 6 7 20 19 6 3 10 20 31 -10 45 more than 26,313 24,631 14 West Bromwich A 38 6 5 8 20 26 4 8 7 14 22 -14 43 25,295 24,636 15 Crystal Palace 38 6 3 10 19 23 5 6 8 20 28 -12 42 and four clear 11,386 11,189 16 AFC Bournemouth 38 5 5 9 23 34 6 4 9 22 33 -22 42 of Romelu 47,653 43,071 17 Sunderland 38 6 6 7 23 20 3 6 10 25 42 -14 39 Lukaku. He 52,311 49,754 18 Newcastle United 38 7 7 5 32 24 2 3 14 12 41 -21 37 also scored 27,137 26,972 19 Norwich City 38 6 5 8 26 30 3 2 14 13 37 -28 34 most goals in 42,200 33,690 20 Aston Villa 38 2 5 12 14 35 1 3 15 13 41 -49 17 a game again.

TOP SCORERS FACTS & FIGURES (PREMIER LEAGUE ONLY) HIGHEST ATTENDANCE Harry Kane (Tottenham) 720 25 = 75,415 Manchester United v Swansea, 2.1.16 Sergio Aguero (Manchester City) 620 24 = LOWEST ATTENDANCE (Leicester) 10,863 AFC Bournemouth v Stoke, 13.2.16 (Everton) 600 18 = HIGHEST SCORING HOME WINS (Leicester) 560 17 = 6-1 Man City v Newcastle, 3.10.15 (Arsenal) 16 6-2 Newcastle v Norwich, 18.10.15 520 = 6-2 Everton v Sunderland, 1.11.15 Jermain Defoe (Sunderland) 480 15 = (Watford) HIGHEST SCORING AWAY WINS 6-0 Liverpool at Aston Villa, 14.2.16 Troy Deeney (Watford) 480 13 = Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal) MOST GOALS IN A MATCH Andre Ayew (Swansea) 12 5 Sergio Aguero (Man City) v Newcastle 480 = (Chelsea) 4 (Newcastle) v Norwich 3 Callum Wilson (Bournemouth) v West Ham 3 (Everton) v Chelsea 3 Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal) v Leicester 3 Raheem Sterling (Man City) v Bournemouth 3 Harry Kane (Tottenham) v Bournemouth 3 Arouna Kone (Everton) v Sunderland 3 Riyad Mahrez (Leicester) v Swansea 3 Jermain Defoe (Sunderland) v Swansea 3 (West Ham) v Arsenal 3 Sergio Aguero (Man City) v Chelsea 3 Sadio Mane (Southampton) v Man City 3 Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) v Aston Villa Sergio Aguero scored 29 goals last season with 24 of them in the Premier League.

75 FOR THE RECORD MATCH DETAILS

FIRST TEAM

Sunday 8 May Barclays Premier League Etiihad Stadium MANCHESTER CITY 2 Aguero 8, De Bruyne 51 ARSENAL 2 Giroud 10, Sanchez 68, HT 1-1 Att: 54,425 City: Hart, Sagna, Mangala, Otamendi, Clichy, Fernando (Yaya Toure 79), Fernandinho, Jesus Navas (Bony 79), De Bruyne, Iheanacho (Sterling 71), Aguero. Unused: Caballero, Tasende, Demichelis, Delph. Arsenal: Cech, Bellerin, Gabriel, Koscielny, Monreal, Elneny (Coquelin 76), Ramsey, Welbeck (Wilshere 24), Iwobi (Walcott 59), Sanchez, Giroud. Unused: (Nasri 72), Aguero (Yaya Toure 90). Adarabioyo, Kolarov (Bytqyi 65), Ospina, Gibbs, Cazorla, Campbell Unused: Caballero, Sterling, Kolarov, Angelino, Fernando (Yaya Toure Referee: Anthony Taylor Demichelis, Bony. 55), Fernandinho (Aleix Garcia 65), Referee: Zinchenko (Delph 45), Barker (Clichy Sunday 15 May 45), Iheanacho (Bony 45), Jesus Navas Barclays Premier League Wednesday 20 July (Celina 55). Unused: O’Brien, Kompany, International Friendly Nasri, Zuculini, Horsfield, Manu Garcia, Allianz Arena Humphreys. SWANSEA CITY 1 Ayew 45 Referee: Günter Perl (Munich) MANCHESTER CITY 1 Iheanacho 5 BAYERN MUNICH 1 Ozturk 76 HT 1-1 Att: 20,934 MANCHESTER CITY 0 HT 0-0 Att: 68,000 Swansea: Nordfeldt, Rangel, Fernandez, Monday 25 July Amat, Kingsley, Britton, Cork, Fer, Bayern: Ulreich, Ribery (Hagler 45), International Champions Cup Routledge (Barrow 58), Montero (Gomis Martinez (F Gotze 65), Rafinha, Xabi National Stadium, Beijing 83), Ayew. Unused: Vickers, Naughton, Alonso (Dorsch 45), Bernat (Friedl 66), MANCHESTER CITY Fulton, Gorre, Emnes. Lahm, Alaba (Ozturk 45), Feldhahn, v MANCHESTER UNITED City: Hart, Sagna, Otamendi, Mangala, Green, Benko (Shabani (82). Unused: Cancelled – “pitch unfit for play” Clichy, Fernando, Fernandinho, Starke, Tarnat, Haussler, Pohl. after period of “extreme” weather” Jesus Navas, De Bruyne, Iheanacho City: Caballero (Gunn 45), Maffeo,

ENGLAND AT THE ETIHAD

Sunday 22 May International Friendly Etihad Stadium ENGLAND 2 Kane 3, Vardy 83 TURKEY 1 Calhanoglu 13 HT 1-1 Att: 44,866 England: Hart, Walker, Cahill, Stones, Rose, Dier, Wilshere (Henderson 73), Alli, Sterling (Drinkwater 73), Vardy, Kane. Unused: Forster, Heaton, Bertrand, Barkley, Townsend, Delph. Turkey: Babacan, Gonul, Balta, Topal, Erkin (Koybasi 70), Inan (Erdinc 87), Sen, Ozyakup (Tekdemir 70), Tufan 6, Calhanoglu (Sahan 78), Tosun. Unused: Kivrak, Ozbayrakli, Yilmaz Calik, Potuk, Tore, Malli, Soyuncu, Mor, Tekin. Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Germany)

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME Left: Oleksandar Zinchenko on the ball against Dortmund. Below: Penalty shoot-out hero Angus Gunn being interviewed the game. Facing page: Pablo Maffeo and Tosin Adarabioyo marshall Bayern Munich’s Franck Ribery... and Joe Hart saves for England against Turkey at the Etihad.

Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Iwobi, Sanchez. Used subs: Gibbs (76), Akpom (78), Cazorla (63), Campbell (69), Elneny (46), Chambers (46), Debuchy (76), Walcott (46), Bielik (90). Unused: Ospina, Zelalem, Willock, Reine Adelaide. City: Caballero, Zabaleta, Fernando, Kolarov, Clichy, Fernandinho, Silva, Delph, , Aguero, Sterling. Used subs: Hart (46), Sagna (63), Jesus Navas (63), De Bruyne (63), Adarabioyo (63), Iheanacho (68), Yaya Toure (68), Zinchenko (8), Aleix Garcia (80), Angelino (80). Unused: Denayer, Maffeo. Referee: Martin Strombergsson

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77 Jones, Virute, Kent (Lennon 37), Gomes, Thursday 4 August Sunday 7 August Sinclair, Phillips (Brewitt 51), Teixeira Evonik RUHR Cup International Evonik RUHR Cup International – final (Ejaria 45). Unused: Whelan, Kelleher Stadium Rote Erde, Dortmund Stadium Castle Schwansbell, Lunen FC SCHALKE ’04 1 BORUSSIA DORTMUND 0 Monday 9 May MANCHESTER CITY 1 Nmecha MANCHESTER CITY 5 Barclays Under-21 Premier League Davenport pen, Dilrosun 2, Nmecha 2 Etihad Stadium MANCHESTER CITY 1 Fernandes MANCHESTER CITY 0 BAYER LEVERKUSEN 0 CHELSEA 1 Colkett 86 HT 0-0 Friday 5 August UNDER-18s City: Gunn, Horsfield, Adarabioyo, Evonik RUHR Cup International Bryan, Tasende, Aleix Garcia (Kongolo EMKA Sports Centre, Velbert Saturday 7 May 71), Glendon, Bytyqi, Buckley-Ricketts MANCHESTER CITY 1 Nmecha pen Barclays Under-18 Premier League (Nemane 53), Celina, Barker. Unused: REAL MADRID 1 City Football Academy O'Brien, Oliver, Manu Garcia. MANCHESTER CITY 5 Nmecha 18, Chelsea: Collins, Wakefield (Maddox AS MONACO 0 58, Sancho 53, 89, Lukwata og 63 60), Dabo (Grant 60), Conroy, Aina, MANCHESTER CITY 1 Nmecha FULHAM 0 Sammut, Quintero (Colkett 70), HT 1-0 Ali, Ugbo, Christie-Davies, Dasilva. Group B Table City: Haug, Wood (Bullock 82), P F A GD Unused: Baxter. Coveney, Kigbu, Beerman (Foden 60), Schalke 04 4 5 2 +3 Davenport, Fernandes, Diallo, Nmecha, Manchester City 4 4 2 +2 Wednesday 27 July Patching (Dele-Bashiru 57), Sancho. Bayer Leverkusen 4 3 3 0 International Friendly Unused: Faour. Real Madrid 4 3 5 -2 Football Academy Fulham: Lukwata, Fossey, Edun, Opoku, AS Monaco 4 1 4 -3 MANCHESTER CITY 3 Davies, O'Riley, De La Torre, Cassian Nmecha 37 and pen 57, Fernandes 53 (Nabay 52), Humphreys, Kwietniewski GIRONA 2 Longo 30, Sandaza pen 41 Saturday 6 August (Adebayo 56), Thorseinsson (Pearle 70). Evonik RUHR Cup International City: Haug, Bullock, Facey, Kigbu, Unused: Norman, Walker. – semi-final Sarmiento, Wood, Buckley-Ricketts, Stadium Am Badweiher, Marl Kongolo, Nmecha, Brahim Diaz, Nemane. Subs: Oliver, Grimshaw, LIVERPOOL 0 Duhaney, Davenport, Fernandes, MANCHESTER CITY 3 Above: Kevin De Bruyne in action Patching Diallo. Brahim Diaz, Dilrosun, Duhaney against Arsenal in Sweden.

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