Manchester City Stars Suffer Racial Abuse During Pre-season In Croatia

With the first-team off in America in their pre-season tour, Manchester City’s U-21 side were looking to continue in their winning ways in their pre-season training camp in Croatia, when racism reared its ugly head yet again. The incident happened during the U-21 side’s match against Croatian side HNK Rijeka in Novigrad, Croatia on Tuesday. The home side were leading 1-0, but the match was called off after 44 minutes after the visitors France U-19 international midfielder Seko Fofana was allegedly racially abused by an opponent.

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No Cross-City Switch For Yaya Toure - Why The Midfielder Looks Set To Stay At The Premier League Champions

Yaya Toure has been one of the best midfielders in Europe for a few years now, and recent rumours that he was unhappy at Manchester City were not the sort of thing the Premier League champions were looking for after lifting the trophy in May.  Fortunately for them, though, the Guardian have reported that the 31-year-old intends to ignore transfer speculation stay at the Etihad Stadium.

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Manchester City Will Be Too Strong For Aston Villa, Even Without Aguero

Sky Sports have reported that Manchester City’s star striker Sergio Aguero has been ruled out of tonight’s crunch clash with Aston Villa. The away side will be travelling to the Etihad with nothing to lose and have already inflicted defeat on Manuel Pelligrini’s side earlier in the season when they triumphed 3-2 at Villa Park. So just how significant will the absence of the Argentinian prove to be?

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Return Of Injured Arsenal Star Will Boost The Emirates Club - Here's Why

Arsenal entered 2014 top of the league and in high spirits. The fans believed that they could challenge for the title but with injuries and a huge dip in form, they now find themselves worrying whether they'll be playing Champions League football next season.

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Arsenal: Forget Signing A Striker, Gunners Need A Midfield Powerhouse

A report from the Daily Telegraph announced that Arsene Wenger was said to have expressed shock at sections of Arsenal fans. A few pockets were heard booing his side off at half time during the somewhat lucky 2-2 draw against Swansea at the Emirates on Tuesday night.

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3 Things We Learned From Manchester City's 5-0 FA Cup Win Over Blackburn

Manchester City eased to a 5-0 win at home to Championship side Blackburn Rovers in the FA Cup last night - here are three things we learned from the tie.

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A Closer Look At How Football Players Adapt To Their New Surroundings

This might not be the first thing that comes to a football fan’s mind, but sometimes it’s amazing how football players learn multiple languages throughout their careers.

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A Closer Look At How Yaya Toure Was At The Heart Of Manchester City's Win At West Brom

Manchester City have been tore apart by the nation this season as a result of their inability to win their away games, but last night they eased past West Brom despite two late goals for the Baggies. Manuel Pellegrini's men ran out 3-2 winners at the Hawthorns and there was one man at the heart of the positive performance - Yaya Toure.

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3 players to fire Manchester City to the title

After City’s defeat to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, the blue side of Manchester are in seventh, six points off the top of the table. But which players can breathe some life into their title challenge and fire them to the top?

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Ivorians Close In On Brazil World Cup With A Squad To Be Feared

The Ivory Coast took a giant step towards a third consecutive World Cup appearance on Saturday, with a 3-1 victory over neighbours Senegal in Abidjan – had Papiss Cisse not scored for the visitors deep into stoppage time the tie would have looked as good as over.

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Yaya Toure - the complete midfielder

Out of the many signings Manchester City have made since their injection of petro dollars, there is a very strong argument that there have been none more important than that of Yaya Toure.

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Where Is The New Generation Of African Superstars?

With the careers of Didier Drogba, Samuel E’too and Michael Essien all winding down – the question has to be asked; where are the next generation of African superstars?

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Was Letting Paul Pogba Leave Sir Alex Ferguson's Biggest Mistake? (Video)

The 20-year-old Frenchman was poached from Le Havre by Manchester United in 2009, but only made seven first-team appearances which included three in the Premier League. After so little game time in a midfield as weak as United's Pogba made the wise decision to let his contract wind down last summer.

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Have Manchester City got it right this time?

It is fair to say that despite the pots of cash at their disposal Manchester City have not exactly spent the money particularly well – with last summer’s well documented failures being the most notable example of this. The criticisms have often revolved around transfer moves being ill thought out, with many of the players brought in failing to improve the squad.

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Thiago sale is a mistake (Video)

Bayern Munich's signing of midfielder Thiago Alcantara from Barcelona has left many people questioning what the Spanish club is up to. The 22-year-old, who has already played a fair amount of first team football at the Camp Nou over the past few seasons, was apparently unhappy at not being assured of regular first team action. No doubt that Pep Guardiola has had an important influence on this transfer and with a £22m deal sealing the move, it would appear that he will line-up alongside Bastian Schweinsteiger in their midfield next season. Why then were Barcelona unable to convince him to stay?

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