Your Manchester City evening headlines for Tuesday, July 19.
Oleksandr Zinchenko leaves a unique legacy in Pep Guardiola era at Man City
Aston Villa stunned the Etihad on the final day of the Premier League season when they took a shock lead against Manchester City on a day that was supposed to be a coronation.
As some tried to process how Pep Guardiola's side had fallen behind, Oleksandr Zinchenko was already on his feet from the bench demanding that the crowd and players lift themselves. If that were not enough, he then replaced Fernandinho at half-time and was instrumental in overturning a 2-0 deficit to mean a fourth Premier League title in five years.
With Zinchenko about to seal a £32m move to Arsenal, that is about as fitting an ending you could write for a boy who refused to accept defeat. Whether he was in or out of the team, the Ukrainian passionately gave everything he had to the football club.
Man City quietly line up another youth signing to continue effective transfer strategy
When the verdicts come in on how successful Manchester City's transfer window has been, the headline names will be Erling Haaland, Julian Alvarez, and Kalvin Phillips. Marc Cucurella will be added to that list if he signs while Stefan Ortega could also prove an essential addition.
Not much will be made of Emilio Lawrence, a 16-year-old City are closing in on signing from Everton that would join the academy for pre-season and the new campaign. Nor should it; the expectations are high enough on these teenagers without being thrust even further into the spotlight.
However, while Lawrence is left along to settle the very fact that they have signed him is significant to their wider transfer policy that has become more prevalent in recent years and - as this summer has shown - is producing more and more results. Just as the first team are not standing still, neither are the academy.
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