"I asked permission from Jurgen of course because I didn’t want to interfere much, I said to him would it be a problem to talk to him, he said, 'Absolutely not.'“We talked a bit then in one or two days we decided.

Phil Foden declared that “the hunger inside me is back and I want to prove people wrong” after starring in Manchester City’s opening Club World Cup group game. He even had his smile back.

Manchester City endured a difficult 2024/25 campaign, winning only the Charity Shield. They ran into awful periods of form but did turn things around in the last part of the campaign to finish 3rd in the league.