Manchester City can expect summer departures but this speculation is nonsense
· Yahoo Sports
Manchester City have largely put last season’s disappointments behind them as Pep Guardiola pivoted during the summer to not only introduce a slightly different style of play, but significantly shake up options available to him through an expected rebuild.
Reducing the average age of the squad, moving on stalwarts and those more on the fringes failing to live up to their earlier billing and fees, and bringing in new talent from across the globe has worked out pretty well for the 55-year-old former defensive midfielder.
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For the more confident City fan during pre-season, they would have picked the best 1xbet website odds predictions suggesting a good year lay ahead and they would have been right to.
With 27 games played so far in the 2025/26 campaign, Manchester City are comfortably in second spot in the Premier League table and Guardiola will be demanding that the gap to Arsenal is cut given the game in hand held over Mikel Arteta’s side – who have begun wobbling and showing signs of ‘bottling’ it again.
Whilst City fans understandably have eyes on what happens in the remainder of the season with the fixture calendar at the business end of the year, there will be those who are not only wondering whether or not Guardiola will remain at the Etihad Stadium for the 2026/27 season, but also what kind of second stage rebuild will be seen – whether he stays or not.
Fans are already beginning to see some predictably nonsense stories doing the rounds as the press and media trawl the bottom of the speculation transfer window rumour mill ahead of the summer.
Even though we are barely into a new week, there have already been strong – but in reality baseless – claims that Barcelona are preparing a blockbuster move for Norwegian superstar Erling Haaland, and now there are claims that the La Liga giants are sniffing around Rodri.
On the Haaland front, the claims come from Joan Soler – who has been part of Joan Laporta’s board since 2021 and has just stepped down with the president re-contesting the upcoming election.
He also claimed they were going to sign Julian Alvarez and it appears he is telling anyone who will listen how Laporta single handedly kept Lamine Yamal at the club, so we think we can guess his motivations and truthfulness here.
As for Rodri, some outlet’s are peddling that Real Madrid also have the 29-year-old at the top of their wish list for the summer and City can expect a bidding war. This is unlikely as one side favours free transfers and both sides have incredibly well-known financial problems and constraints hanging over their heads.
Not least it was only the other week that Guardiola effectively doubled down on Rodri remaining at the club irrespective of whatever else may happen, and with a contract until the summer of 2027 no one is in a position to force the club’s hand here unless Rodri himself wants to investigate pastures new.
That is unlikely given his recent injury issues and the player simply focused on getting back to his true best, and of course, pretty much from day one in Manchester he has been linked with both Spanish clubs and nothing ever comes of it.
There is no reason to think this round of speculation is any different.