Gary is an experienced football journalist who has written for, among many others, BBC Sport and The Metro, and is now the editor of ReadEverton.com. He leads daily coverage of Everton news, transfers and analysis as part of the dave.sport network. He also writes for ReadManCity.com, ReadMotorsport and ReadNorwich within the same network. When not writing, he enjoys a nice cold pint of Guinness and trips to the cinema ... not always at the same time.
Manchester City go into Saturday’s match against Coventry with the same central striker question that has followed the club since the transfer window closed. Enzo Maresca used his pre-match press conference on 17 September 2026 to give his clearest answer yet, confirming how he plans to manage Erling Haaland’s workload now Omar Marmoush has left […]
City players were apparently just as keen as supporters to discover whether Enzo Fernández would complete his £125million move from Chelsea. Enzo Maresca has revealed that several members of his squad were asking about Fernández during the final days of the transfer window because they wanted the Argentina international at the Etihad. The deal eventually […]
City manager Enzo Maresca has completed his leadership group for the new season, naming Marc Guéhi and Gianluigi Donnarumma alongside Rúben Dias and Erling Haaland as the club’s four captains. Maresca confirmed the decision ahead of Saturday’s Premier League game against Coventry City. And it completes a process he deliberately left open earlier in the […]
City have submitted their squad for the league phase of the Champions League – and one detail stands out. Enzo Maresca has only 23 players on List A, despite UEFA regulations allowing clubs to register up to 25. It isn’t, of course, an oversight. Why City’s squad stops at 23 UEFA reserves eight places in […]
City have started the season so well that Fantasy Premier League managers have been left with an unexpected problem. How much of their £100m budget should they spend on Enzo Maresca‘s players? The Premier League’s own FPL Scout is now asking whether it is time to triple up on City ahead of Saturday’s home game […]
City supporters could get their first look at two of the club’s biggest Deadline Day arrivals against Coventry on Saturday. Enzo Fernández and Iliman Ndiaye are both in contention to make their debuts at the Etihad after completing moves worth a combined £190m. Fernández arrived from Chelsea for £125m, equalling the British transfer record, while […]
City’s agreement with Manchester City Council over the Etihad Stadium is being revised more than two decades after the club first moved to east Manchester. It sounds more dramatic than it is. City have a long-term lease on the stadium, which remains owned by Manchester City Council, and the agreement is now being altered as […]
City are only two Premier League games into life after Pep Guardiola, but Enzo Maresca has already earned his first piece of individual recognition. The new City boss has been nominated for the Premier League Manager of the Month award for August after winning both of his opening league games. Maresca is on a four-man […]
This article was updated on 18 September 2026 to reflect Manchester City’s £125m Deadline Day capture of Enzo Fernández and Nico O’Reilly’s run of starts under Enzo Maresca. The enzo fernandez manchester city transfer changes the picture in midfield again, only two games into the Premier League season. Our original report on Nico O’Reilly and […]
Two games, two wins and a transfer window unlike anything City have attempted before. Now Enzo Maresca has to make sense of it all. The transfer window may be closed, but there has been plenty to discuss around City on Thursday. The scale of the summer spending has become clearer, Enzo Fernández has taken Kevin […]
This update reflects the position as of 2 October 2026. Manchester City host Coventry City at the Etihad Stadium this weekend. The Man City Coventry Etihad meeting will be the first competitive fixture between the two clubs since March 2002. Enzo Maresca’s side go into it in excellent early season form. Coventry have never set […]
For all the noise around City’s extraordinary summer spending, one of the quieter stories of the opening fortnight has been Nico O’Reilly. City spent a reported £116million on Elliot Anderson, £86million on Ayyoub Bouaddi and then another £125million to bring Enzo Fernández from Chelsea on deadline day. That’s £327million on three midfielders alone. Yet O’Reilly, […]
