View From A Blue

This is a guest contribution from Steve. It’s been a busy couple of weeks for City’s players in the European Championships, with little time to rest after the end of a hectic domestic season as they’ve been thrown into action quickly for their national teams. It was a four pronged City thread in England’s first [...]

This is a guest post from Steve. Much of the focus on Manchester City following the humiliating defeat to Leicester City centred on issues in defence, with three penalties conceded, a vulnerability to the counter attack and the absence of a commanding figure at the heart of the back four to take control of proceedings. [...]

This is a guest post from Steve. Another transfer window, another piece of transfer activity for City at centre-back. This time, it appears increasingly likely that Nicolas Otamendi is on his way out, heading to Benfica as part of the deal to bring Ruben Dias to Manchester. It will bring to an end a five-year [...]

This is a guest post from Steve. It was a dream debut for Liam Delap on Thursday night as he scored with a delightful finish to help fire City through to the next round of the Carabao Cup. Even amongst diehard followers, few supporters of the Blues would have known much about the young striker [...]

This is a guest post from Steve. Ahead of the opening fixture away to Wolves on Monday night, many were worried about City’s pre-season, or lack of one. There had been multiple issues related to Covid-19, with Aymeric Laporte, Riyad Mahrez and Ilkay Gundogan testing positive in the days leading up to the trip to [...]