For City, there are five injury concerns. The first and most important is Rodri, the Ballon d’Or winner, who sustained a “bad injury” in the Club World Cup defeat by Al-Hilal.

Manchester City begin the 2025–26 Premier League season by visiting Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday, with the eight-time champions keen to make a fast start ...

As always with Cristiano Ronaldo, it is all about the numbers. The headline one, of course, is 200 million: his eye-watering annual wage in euros, which makes all other salaries in football look like ...