Man City Captain and Legend Kyle Walker Wants to Leave

October and November felt like a nuclear chamber for the fans with Man City tickets. The once-successful club was plummeting from the summit at a rapid pace, and nobody knew why. 

Their beloved manager, Pep Guardiola, didn’t know what was happening.  After a series of losses and draws, Manchester City is slowly regaining its winning ways. 

For now, the fans with Man City tickets look happy, but they are still worried.  One of the worries is that the club will no longer have Kyle Walker. 

Kyle Walker to Leave City

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has revealed captain Kyle Walker has asked to leave the club.

Walker, 34, was left out of City’s squad for Saturday’s 8-0 FA Cup win over Salford.

After the game, Guardiola said: “Two days ago, Kyle asked to explore the options of playing abroad at the end of his career.

“In his [Walker’s] mind, he would like to explore it, to go to another country, to play the last years [somewhere else] for many reasons.

“For that reason, I prefer playing other players whose mind is here.”

Walker has helped City win 17 trophies, including six Premier League titles and the Champions League, since joining the club in a £50m deal from switch Tottenham in 2017.

Guardiola said: “We cannot understand our success these years without Kyle. It’s impossible.

“He arrived eight years ago with us, and we started to win, win, win, win, and he has been important for the national team and, of course, with our team.

“But he has said he wants to explore in his mind and his heart and wants to explore it. Honestly? I don’t know what is going to happen.”

The England international has seen his minutes reduced this season, only starting nine games in the Premier League, and has been linked with a move to Saudi Arabia.

A parting of ways between Walker and Manchester City does make sense for both parties.

Walker may have asked to leave, but there will not be much resistance from the decision-makers at the club based on the clear decline of the England international’s powers this season.

A player who has built his career on being almost unbeatable in one-on-one duels is now an easy target to exploit for opposition-wide players.

Even Timo Werner, suffering from form and confidence issues at Tottenham, showed Walker a clean pair of heels to set up Spurs’ fourth goal in that chastening defeat for City earlier this season.

It led Sky Sports’ Gary Neville to say: “You don’t see that very often, but we’ve seen it a few times in the last couple of weeks. Vinicius Junior, Kylian Mbappe, he’s handled them all, Walker, but he’s struggling.”

Walker’s errors are not just odd; they bring catalogue vibes. As the with-and-without statistics suggest, his presence has become a hindrance rather than a help for Guardiola.

While the fans with Man City tickets will miss him on the field, they feel the same. City needs new blood. 

Abdukodir Khusanov to City 

Manchester City have agreed a 40m euros (£33.6m) deal with Lens for central defender Abdukodir Khusanov.

Sources with knowledge of the deal say additional bonus payments are attached to the sale, and the player is due to undergo a medical before the transfer is officially confirmed.

City manager Pep Guardiola has been determined to strengthen his squad after a difficult couple of months that have seen the defending Premier League champions slip to sixth in the table—and 12 points behind leaders Liverpool.

The club also negotiates with Brazilian side Palmeiras for teenage defender Vitor Reis. However, the club’s president has been quoted as saying that reports they are keen to cash in on the 18-year-old are “incorrect.”

Once his move is completed, Khusanov will become the first Uzbekistan player to join a Premier League club. 

He will also be City’s first significant January signing since the arrival of Aymeric Laporte in 2018.

It underlines Guardiola’s determination to reverse City’s fortunes and address a chronic injury situation that left him without a succession of defenders during the campaign’s first half.

Lens only paid 100,000 euros (£84,000) for Khusanov from Belarusian club Energetik-BGU 18 months ago.

However, he has developed rapidly. He has made 13 appearances in Ligue 1 so far this season and has 18 caps for Uzbekistan.

Khusanov scored his first goal for the club on his most recent appearance, a French Cup tie with Paris St-Germain on 22 December.

City Wants Omar Marmoush

Manchester City are pushing for a January deal for Egypt international Omar Marmoush, a versatile attacker and No 10 from Eintracht Frankfurt. 

The deal will cost the club around £50 million as they seek to keep up the pursuit of the Premier League leaders after a disastrous run over the previous two months.

Marmoush is one of the leading players in the Bundesliga. He is a relatively late bloomer at the top level, joining Frankfurt on a free transfer from Wolfsburg at the start of last season. 

He is second only to Harry Kane this season among Bundesliga goalscorers with 13 goals—as well as seven assists—and the German club has been resistant to him leaving.

The 25-year-old is contracted for two more seasons after 2024-25, and the original intention was to sell this summer. 

Fans with Man City tickets think this could be a new beginning, where Guardiola, in his final year, is bringing in one-to-one replacements for his squad, prepping the club for the future. Bringing Marmoush into this strategy is a significant standpoint. 

Frankfurt is third in the Bundesliga and fifth in the 36-team Europa League after six games, and Marmoush’s performances have been a major factor in this.

Fans with Man City tickets feel that he can hit the ground running in the Premier League because of his pace and ability to play several attacking positions. 

In addition to Wolfsburg, he has played on loan at St Pauli in the second tier and Stuttgart. Last season was his breakthrough as a regular goalscorer in the Bundesliga, with 12 goals for Frankfurt.

City are trying to refresh Pep Guardiola’s squad mid-season after a desperate run over November and December, during which they won just one of nine Premier League games and lost six. 

Since then, they have won their two most recent top-flight games against Leicester City and West Ham United. 

The club is trying to strengthen several positions that have been weakened by a series of injuries to key players. Marmoush fits the bill as an attacking player who can operate across the front three.