Club World Cup – Manchester City – Wydad Athletic Club: Attention, you are not going to recognize City

What remains of their loves? From this 2023 Champions League final, this first time. For the history of Manchester City, those who built the greatness and domination of the English club, this year 2025 marks a major turning point, a pivot. The golden generation of Skyblues is ended and the departure of Kevin de Bruyne, the most important player in the history of the club, embodies it better than anything. Kyle Walker will follow him, Jack Grenish should not be long and a whole bunch of other eminent members of the 2023 coronation (Ederson, Ilkay Gündogan and perhaps Bernardo Silva) will not be retained.

The revolution has a price. In Manchester City, it costs 343 million euros, the crazy sum committed for the site. Never had the Skyblues spent so much in a year, they did it in six months. The facelift does not come out of nowhere, it is a spectacular response to the failed season. Since we shouldn’t touch Guardiola, we changed everything else. What incidence of winter and early summer moments have on the eleven that City will line up at the Club World Cup? Apart from the hinge and the center forward, everything is open. It is still a little early to be final but one thing is certain: you will find it difficult to recognize City.

The Brazilian goalkeeper has suffered this season and City is looking for more insurance, especially in the air field. But no one has yet been recruited for the challenger except Marcus Bettinelli, dedicated to being the lining of the lining. Joan Garcia finally signed at FC Barcelona but Ederson’s situation was not clarified. The team has relayed a surprising interest in Gianluigi Donnarumma and the file remains open.

Faced with the collapse of Kyle Walker, who will go for good in the coming days, Pep Guardiola tried the blow with Rico Lewis. But the 20 -year -old kid showed his flaws against Real Madrid, especially this season. He is a temporary solution even if he will undoubtedly be a holder in the United States. Tino Livramento (Newcastle) could recover the position after summer. It would cost City 40 million euros. A trifle. Matheus Nunes, Manu Akanji, John Stones and Abdukodir Khusanov can however all play at the post. But City always wants more.

In this puzzle to reconstruct, Guardiola keeps two pieces: that of his central defense. Ruben Dias and Gvardiol showed their complementarity at the end of the season. City leaves with quite a few certainties, it is one.

Aït-Nouri has a free field. Landed this summer against 50 million euros, the former Angevin completely convinced the Premier League in Wolverhampton and goes to the upper floor. He embodies the daring spirit of the side under Pep Guardiola. And even if he has to confirm at a level he does not know, the Algerian today has the cards in hand in a club yet ultra-competitive.

The Club World Cup will only give a fragmented overview of what the future of City could be. First because Rodri, after nine months of absence, just comes back. He will not be able to chain and a doubt always hovers when a player returns from a break in the cross ligament of the knee. But, a priori, he will start next year.

At his side, Tijjani Reijnders, who arrived from Milan against 55 million euros, leaves with a step ahead of those who preceded him at the post and in particular an Ilkay Gündogan who had his day in City. Right now, in Manchester, we don’t do in the feeling. Nico Gonzalez, like many other winter recruits, already seems to be cheesy by the new situation of the summer transfer window.

According to the English press, the French international will start the club World Cup in the shoes of a holder. In a club where the attacks in attack are expensive, it is a huge chance. Cherki can be the face of this new City, the embodiment of the revolution desired by Guardiola. Very good with Belgium in June, will Doku finally break through for good in Manchester? Savinho risks wasting playing time. But Manchester City enters a moving sequence where, by definition, everyone will have a chance. All now is to grasp it.