Man City make transfer decision after Rodri boost and Richard Masters 'own goal'

Man City ended 2024 by getting back to winning ways against Leicester after a rotten run of form to end the calendar year.

City ended the year in sixth place in the Premier League table, 22nd place in the Champions League table and knocked out of the Carabao Cup.

An injury crisis has ravaged their season and now they have to get back on track with some transfer business in the January transfer window. There is also the looming results of the 115 charges case against the Premier League to contend with.

Here is a round up of the key Manchester City headlines on Thursday, January 2.

Even if Richard Masters gave a stock 'no comment' answer, it would have been better than simply not talking about the Premier League's charges against Manchester City at all.

Masters has opened 2025 with a sit-down interview with a new Sky Sports podcast, but hard-hitting and in-depth it was not. Listening to him speak, you would not know this is the man leading the Premier League in the middle of a titanic legal battle with its defending champions, having lost a courtroom battle with the same club in recent months forcing a significant rule change.

Masters did reference the Profit and Sustainability Rules that require changing after City successfully proved the old version was against UK competition law. After trying to explain the new proposed rules, comparing them against UEFA's, he said: "We think [the threshold for permitted losses] is the right place to put it at and see if the clubs vote it through during the course of the season."

That is where the legal talk stopped.

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Manchester City will recall defender Issa Kabore from his nightmare loan at Benfica, and he will return to the Etihad this month.

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