Pep Guardiola claimed to be delighted this week about the 'failure' of last season in Manchester City – which indicates that he will use it to bounce back with large silverware.
City finished third in the Premier League after passing a horror time before Christmas and won one of the 13 games in all games that lead to question marks about the team's ability to compete with a lively Liverpool.
Nine new First team faces have been since January, seven of the age of 26, but to what extent the city really starts a new era, depends on who the club leaves before September.
Guardiola wants a smaller team, but has 31 players available for training during their first week, which means that City has a lot of work to do for closing the transfer window.
What has Manchester City done so far?
It was a decisive start of the summer prior to what became a disappointing club World Cup campaign. City wanted new faces in the United States, with the expectation that the tournament would act as the majority of their preseason.
Rayan Cherki, Rayan Ait-Nouri and Tijjani Reijners all arrived in the days before America and integrated nicely in the team, although City was dumped in the last 16 phase from the competition by Saudi side Al Hilal.
That early exit meant that the team was back in training on Monday after a three -week break, while it was reasonably expected to return on August 4. That was the date for the restart of the city if they went to the quarterfinals or after.
The three outfield signing sessions were accompanied by Marcus Bettinelli from Chelsea, who fills the third Keeper spot that has been fired by the popular Scott Carson and fills a crucial place at home.
James Trafford put a first £ 27 million from Burnley on Tuesday who, after the highly rated 18-year-old Sverre Nypan's arrival from Rosenborg, costs the summer expenses up to just over £ 150 million.
That makes 2025 a year of considerable expenditure after saying goodbye to £ 180 million in January to sign grandma Marmoush, Abdukodir Khusanov, Nico Gonzalez, Vitor Reis and Juma Bah, while Guardiola renews a parenting group of players who did not live up to their last term.
Two of those veterans, Kyle Walker and Kevin De Bruyne, left for Burnley and Napoli respectively. De Bruyne was not offered a new contract and the move from Walker to Turf Moor is worth a maximum of £ 5 million.
Young midfielder Maximo Perrone has granted his loan to Como Permanent for a report costs of a maximum of £ 13 million, while the development of the development of Bah is now on loan from Nice.
Activating the matching rights option in the Burnley contract from Trafford is only the second time that they have signed a young player again. Can you name the other? The answer is at the bottom of this article. Clue: It came during the office of Guardiola after the player was impressed by the Netherlands.
What do they have to do?
A clear gap immediately feels back. Matheus Nunes, Rico Lewis, Manuel Akanji and Khusanov have all operated on it – Lewis with the biggest distinction – but Guardiola misses a senior specialist in that position.
The future of Nunes was in the air earlier in the year before the Portuguese defensively improved as a right -wing back, in which Guardiola publicly had his assets in that area.
Lewis thought he was a pity not only to see Red during the opening match of the City World Cup City, but was then beaten with a ban on three games and did not play further in America. The city talks with the graduate academy about a new contract alongside Ruben Dias.
Is there enough budget and PSR headroom left to meet their needs?
The income of the Premier League record of £ 715 million suggests that there is no problem with budgets and that opinion is only improved by the recent signing of a new 10-year-old deal with PUMA with a value of a maximum of £ 1 billion. Despite the world cup of the poor club, they still earned £ 37 million from the qualification and three victories.
However, there has been a very clear drive to lower an escalating wage account, with that reduced by £ 10 million in the last series of accounts after the £ 422 million record for the previous year.
The city wants that to go, with people like De Bruyne (£ 380,000 a week) who are replaced by younger stars on stimulated deals with lower basic salaries.
That is all, while Erling Haaland's nine -year contract was written in January, rising almost £ 400,000 a week.
Who are they aimed at?
City suggests that income is being made and saying that there are no plans to offer at Tino Livramento in Newcastle United and that there are no current conversations around a right back.
It should be noted that a heart changes with transfer activities have been made in recent months. The noise, for example, was in the first instance that the city would give priority to a right back on the left but then turned by Wolves to Ait-Nouri.
Cherki pulled Morgan Gibbs-White in the pecking order when the expectation was from different sources that the city would close a deal with Nottingham Forest.
Cherki became available at a seductive price and you imagine that a club or representative was an offer of a similar value, then City would look at it.
And who goes on the way to the exit?
Well, this is now the core of the summer. Mail Sport wrote extensively about the mud of Guardiola's team size last month and it undoubtedly requires repair.
Twenty-seven made the trip to America-a song that is not including Jack Grealish, James McATEEE and the wounded Mateo Kovacic. Apart from the constant insistence of Guardiola when working with a small team, the figures do not work with the regulations for the Champions League.
In short, if the current crop were to remain the same, five non-gay stars would miss European football throughout the season. So the work of the new director of Football Hugo Viana is the placement of young people at the right clubs on a temporary basis or earning the right value for established players.
Nypan, represented by the agent of Haaland, goes on loan for his development and the conversation is that he must be followed by January Arrival Reis and Claudio Echeverri.
Lyon hoped to land a city young, while sister club Girona is also an obvious destination. Echeverri does not expect him to go to Roma, after he has been associated with the Argentinian who received a debut in the FA Cup Final Defeat by Crystal Palace.
That's three. Four is Stefan Ortega, with Ederson and Trafford the two who enter the campaign while Guardiolas chosen combination between the sticks.
Ortega wants to be a no. 1 and has been interested in Premier League parties in the recent past. City wants Ederson to remain and only an astronomical offer would change those plans.
With 31 players available to Guardiola in recent days, there is a conviction that the first weekend of the season, away from Wolves, will focus a number of spirits on movements and their future. The friendly in Palermo per week on Saturday will also offer an indication.
McATEE is hot ownership. Forest has rejected an £ 25 million offer in recent days, with Eintracht Frankfurt considered a fixed option for the attacking midfielder.
Interest from colleague Bundesliga side RB Leipzig depends on the future of Chelsea Target Xavi Simons, while a third German side has kept a good eye in Borussia Dortmund. City will include a repurchase clause in every deal for the graduated academy.
Everton See Grealish – Training with the main group of the city this week – as a potential tent signing, although the word would be at the English International earlier in the summer that a movement would probably come out in August, given the loan market and considering other clubs. Napoli has taken a look.
Kalvin Phillips, who recovers from Achilles operation, is in the building this week. Ilkay Gundogan has been searched by Galatasaray, Kovacic has admirers, but the group will have a better idea of where they will be in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, the 'Loans Group' of the Club-Josh Wilson-Esbrand, Callum Doyle, Jahmai Simpson-Pusey, Luke MBete, Joel Ndala-Al have trained together for a few weeks.
Ndala has sealed a switch to Hull City and Simpson-Pusey will probably become a member of Celtic in the midst of interest from Swansea City and Derby County.
Doyle is appreciated at around £ 8 million. Hoffenheim saw an offer rejected last month and there is interest from Udinese. English teams are looking for a loan, but the city and the defender want a permanent transfer.
And the answer to the teaser at the top? Angelino, signed from PSV Eindhoven in 2019. He only started making six league games before he came to Leipzig.