Happy 24th Birthday to Sergio Gomez! 🥳

Ruben Dias: “Rodri has a good chance of winning the Ballon d’Or! We’re all rooting for him, it would make us very happy for him to win. It would be a special moment! What he’s done with Spain is important and what we’ve done together puts a lot of weight behind his chances!” 🤩✨

Men’s Coach of the Year nominee at the 2024 Ballon d’Or awards. 🩵

Savinho has been nominated for the 2024 Kopa Trophy 🇧🇷👏

Man City have no nominations for the 2024 Yachine Trophy - recognizing the best goalkeeper in the world - at the 2024 Ballon d’Or awards. ⛔️

Manchester City’s full ballondor nominees:

🏆 Men's Ballon D'or:
- Rodri
- Phil Foden
- Erling Haaland
- Rúben Dias

🏆 Men's Team Coach OTY:
- Pep Guardiola

🏆 Men's TOTY:
- Man City

🏆 Kopa:
- Savinho

🏆 Women's Ballon D'or:
- Khadija Shaw
- Lauren Hemp
- Yui Hasegawa

Our 2024 Men’s Ballon d’Or nominees! 🌎🏆

🇪🇸 Rodrigo
🇳🇴 @Erling_Haaland
🇵🇹 Rúben Dias
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Phil Foden

Kyle Walker on missing out on an England call-up: “I'm disappointed, you accept it and just try to prove them wrong. With a new manager, you are always expecting a few changes. I'm disappointed because to represent your country is always the highest thing.

But I haven't played any minutes for Man City this season so you have to take it on the chin. I've not performed at any level since coming back from the, so I think it's the right call from him.”

@Erling_Haaland has been nominated for the PL Player of the Month award for August and Pep Guardiola has been nominated for the PL Manager of the Month award for August. 💪

Vote for Erling! ➡️ August’s EA SPORTS Player of the Month

Vote for Pep! ➡️ August’s Barclays Football Manager of the Month

Man City x UEFA Nations League:

🇵🇹🇭🇷 Ruben Dias and Bernardo Silva both start for Portugal, whilst Josko Gvardiol and Mateo Kovacic both start for Croatia
🇨🇭 Manuel Akanji starts for Switzerland vs. Denmark

Jack Grealish knows his Man City resurgence this season has to continue, and he is fully aware of this campaign’s importance with Pep Guardiola demanding more, too.

🗣️ | Rodri:

“Even when I scored the goal in the Champions League final in 2023, it was not a ‘calculation’, It was a feeling, from 20 years of football, since I was playing in the garden. The second before Bernardo put in the cross, I was actually very far away from the play. On the TV replay, you can’t even see me. There was really no chance of the ball coming to me. I should have stayed still. But I took one step forward toward the box. I don’t know why. I wasn’t thinking about it. Because nine times out of 10 — maybe 99 times out of 100 — when Bernardo crosses the ball, it’s not going to come my way.

But this voice told me, ‘This time is going to be the one time’.

I took a step forward. The ball was deflected. If I don’t take that one step, it’s already too late. 

I saw the ball bouncing toward me. 

And I can tell you everything that flashed through my mind: It’s here. What do I do? 

Hit it hard — boomba

OK, but wait. You will probably have one chance all game. 

Just get it on target. 

You’re out in the garden. 

Just pass the ball into the net. 

It’s here. Pass it. 

It happened just like that, in a flash. When the ball went in, I ran off and did a knee slide in front of our fans, and then I remember my first thought after that was: 20 minutes. 20 more minutes. F****** hell. Long way. That’s the mind of a No. 6.”

🗣️ | Bernardo Silva: “The schedule is completely crazy. We've just received the news that we only have one day off for the English Carabao Cup game. We’ll probably play every three days for months. It's been absolutely absurd. In the UCL, if you don't qualify for the round of 16 you still have to play two more games. It's true that the squads are bigger, but I'm not going to say that it's easy. It hasn't been easy. I spend very little time with my family and friends. The amount of games we're subjected to is absolutely absurd!” [via RECORD]

Rodri: “Pep’s always one step ahead, evolving before the game can evolve, never satisfied keeping things exactly as last season. Your competition is always analyzing. You don’t win four PL titles in a row by standing still. Either reinvent yourself or die…” [via TPTFootball]

Rodri: “When I came to Man City, I walked into a changing room with Fernandinho, Agüero, David Silva, Kevin De Bruyne. Legends. When I was 12, I watched Agüero in training at Atlético. One of my heroes. Now I’m sitting next to him? It was amazing…” [via TPTFootball]