The Catalan club, which is working incredibly hard to ensure the registration of the German international, is aware of this and believes it is absolutely necessary for everything to come together without any issues. Gundogan has agreed to sign a contract for three seasons, but he is awaiting complete guarantees before making an announcement that might happen soon.
Barca has always trusted Gundogan, who gave his verbal approval a few weeks ago after speaking with Xavi Hernández several times. The Blaugrana have been working on the contract for the following three seasons throughout the past week, aware that City's offer for two years was significant, but it is evident at the club that the player has made the decision to play in the Blaugrana shirt to begin the game.
after having won everything at the English club, a new sporting cycle.
In a few days, Gundogan wants to make an announcement on his future. Or at the very least be clear that although he won't be staying at Manchester City, there are still a number of requirements, and everything is dependent on him being able to register without any issues. Barça already had this disagreement with Messi, but they told Gundogan that if they were unable to earn enough salary cap revenue to sign him, the contract might still be approved by the board.
Barça believes there is a good probability he will sign because they have been in close communication with him over the past few days. Specifically, in England, the It is already assumed that City will acquire Kovacic, and talks to sign Declan Rice from West Ham have also begun. As long as the contracts are compatible with LaLiga, according to Blaugrana sources, everything should go as planned. They also think that will happen.
Gundogan has been delayed making a choice in order to give Barça time to prepare, and it is anticipated that all will work out. He is a crucial strategic acquisition for the Catalan club, and everything has been done to bring him in. The problem is still unresolved, but with more hope.
The Premier League, the top division of English football, is where Manchester City Football team, an English professional football team, participates. St. Mark's (West Gorton), a football club founded in 1880, changed its name to Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and then to Manchester City in 1894. After playing at Maine Road since 1923, the club relocated to the Etihad Stadium in east Manchester in 2003. In the inaugural year of the current name, 1894, Manchester City acquired their signature sky blue home uniforms.
The team entered the Football League in 1892, and the FA Cup was their first significant victory in 1904. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Manchester City experienced their first significant run of success, capturing the Under the direction of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison, the team won the league title, the FA Cup, the League Cup, and the European Cup Winners Cup. Manchester City experienced a period of decline following their defeat in the 1981 FA Cup final, which culminated in their one-time-only relegation to the third tier of English football in 1998. Since then, they have been a regular in the Premier League since 2002-03 after regaining promotion to the top division in 2001-02.
Following its ownership by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan through the Abu Dhabi United Group in August 2008, Manchester City experienced a large financial investment in both playing staff and infrastructure in east Manchester.This ushered in a period of remarkable success, culminating in the club's FA Cup victory in 2011 and 2012's Premier League respectively. Under Pep Guardiola's leadership, the team won 14 major awards, including becoming the first team in the history of the competition to reach 100 points in a single season, sweeping all domestic titles in England in 2019, and becoming the first English men's team to win the domestic treble.The club won the domestic league and cup in addition to the UEFA Champions League in 2023, achieving a continental treble in the process.
By the completion of the 2021–22 season, Manchester City had won the Deloitte Football Money League, making it the football team with the largest global income (about €731 million).Forbes estimates that in 2022 the club, valued at $4.250 billion, was the sixth-most valuable company in the world.City Football Group Limited, a British holding company with an estimated value of £3.73 ($4.8) billion in November 2019, is the owner of Manchester City.
History
History of Manchester City F.C. is the main article.
Men in three rows, numbering 15, are posing. On the breast of the football uniform that eleven of the men are wearing is a Maltese Cross. The other four are dressed in top hats and suits.
The significance of the cross pattée on the shirts at St. Marks (Gorton) in 1884 is now unknown.
By winning the Second Division in 1899, City earned its first distinctions and were immediately promoted to the First Division, the top division in English football. They later won their first significant honor on 23 The Blues won the FA Cup in April 1904 by defeating Bolton Wanderers 1-0 at Crystal Palace. Despite finishing second in the league that year, they still made history by becoming the first club in Manchester to win a major trophy. The club was plagued by charges of financial problems in the seasons that followed the FA Cup victory, which culminated in the suspension of seventeen players in 1906, including captain Billy Meredith, who later transferred across the street to Manchester United. The main stand at Hyde Road was destroyed by fire in 1920, and the team relocated to a newly constructed stadium at Maine Road in Moss Side in 1923.
Among the thirteen males, eleven were dressed as usual for association football. early twentieth century, and two men dressed in suits. In front of them is a trophy.
the 1903–1904 Manchester City FA Cup champions.
In the 1930s, Manchester City made it to back-to-back FA Cup finals, losing to Everton in the first one before overcoming Portsmouth to win it in the second.When 84,569 fans filled Maine Road for a sixth-round FA Cup match against Stoke City, the club smashed the record for the largest home attendance of any team in English football history, which stood until 2016.[In spite of leading the competition in goals scored, the club was demoted after winning the First competition championship for the first time in 1937. Twenty Later, in 1955 and 1956, a City squad using the Revie Plan as a guide made it to consecutive FA Cup finals; as in the 1930s, they lost the first one to Newcastle United and won the second. Bert Trautmann, the goalkeeper for Birmingham City, continued to play after unintentionally fracturing his neck in the 1956 final, which the Blues won 3-1.
With a record-low home attendance of 8,015 against Swindon Town in January 1965, the future appeared gloomy for the team after being demoted to the Second Division in 1963. The management duo of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison was chosen in the summer of 1965. Manchester City made the playoffs and won the Second Division title in the inaugural campaign under Mercer.
significant hires in Colin Bell and Mike Summerbee.Two seasons later, in 1967–68, City won the league title for the second time, defeating their near neighbors Manchester United to the crown with a 4–3 victory at Newcastle United on the final day of the season. Thereafter, City won several trophies, including the FA Cup in 1969 and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1970, defeating Górnik Zabrze by a score of 2-1. This was the club's sole recognition in Europe as of 2022. The Blues became the second English team to win a European medal and a domestic title in the same season when they also won the League Cup that year.
Throughout the 1970s, the team remained a title contender, twice coming only one point behind the league champions and making the 1974 League Cup final. The final game of the 1973–74 season versus archrival Manchester United, which Manchester City needed to win to have any chance of avoiding relegation, is one of the games from this time that Manchester City supporters remember most fondly. Denis Law, a former United player, scored a backheel goal to give City a 1-0 victory at Old Trafford and secure their opponents' relegation. When Newcastle United was defeated 2-1 in the League Cup final in 1976, the club's most prosperous era of the 20th century came to an end.
The prosperity of the 1960s and 1970s was followed by a protracted period of decline. When Malcolm Allison returned to the team in 1979 to take over as manager for a second time, he wasted a lot of money on a number of dud purchases, including Steve Daley. Then came a series of managers—seven in the 1980s alone. Under John Bond, City advanced to the 1981 FA Cup final but fell to Tottenham Hotspur after a replay. The club was twice demoted from the first division in the 1980s (in 1983 and 1987), but Peter Reid's leadership brought them back in 1989 and they finished sixth in 1991 and 1992 This was only a brief respite, though, as Manchester City's fortunes continued to decline after Reid left.
City was a co-founder of the Premier League when it was established in 1992, but after placing ninth in the league's inaugural campaign, they struggled for three years before being demoted in 1996. Following 1. FC Magdeburg of Germany, City reached its lowest position in history after two seasons in the First Division. They were the second ever European trophy winners to be dropped to their country's third-tier league.
After being demoted, the team had off-the-field turmoil, with new chairman David Bernstein enforcing stricter financial management.Under Joe Royle's leadership, City won the Second Division play-off final against Gillingham in dramatic manner to win promotion on the first try. City returned to the top level after earning a second consecutive promotion, however this turned out to be a mistake.
step too far for the club that was recuperating, and City was once again demoted in 2001. When Kevin Keegan took over as manager during the offseason, the team won the First league title in 2001–02, shattering previous records for both points and goals scored in a single campaign. This allowed the club to immediately return to the top league. A 3-1 derby victory over Manchester United during the final season at Maine Road in 2002–03 put an end to a 13–year streak without a derby victory. The UEFA fair play ranking also allowed City to enter European competition for the first time in 25 years. The club relocated to the new City of Manchester Stadium at the conclusion of the 2003–04 season. The initial four All of the stadium's seasons ended with mid-table finishes. Sven-Göran Eriksson, a former manager of England, was hired in 2007 and became the team's first foreign manager. After a strong start, performances dipped in the second half of the season, and on June 2, 2008, Eriksson was fired. Mark Hughes took over two days later.
Manchester City's financial situation was shaky by 2008. The previous year, Thaksin Shinawatra had taken over the club, but due to his political struggles, his assets were frozen.The Abu Dhabi United Group later bought City in August 2008. A flurry of high-profile player bids quickly followed the takeover; the team smashed the British transfer record by signing Brazilian international Robinho from Real Madrid for £23,5 million. Despite the increase in funding, the team's performance did not significantly improve from the previous season, as evidenced by their tenth-place finish. However, they performed well to get to the UEFA Cup quarterfinals. The club spent over £100 million on players such Gareth Barry, Roque Santa Cruz, Kolo Touré, Emmanuel Adebayor, Carlos Tevez, and Joleon Lescott during the summer of 2009, setting a record for transfer spending. Roberto Mancini took over as manager in December 2009, succeeding Mark Hughes, who had been hired not long before the change in ownership but had initially been kept on by the new board. City missed out on a spot in the Champions League after finishing the season in fifth place in the Premier League.