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Khaldoon Al Mubarak has actually warned Manchester City’s rivals at this summer’s FIFA Club World Cup that they are taking the competitors as serious as ever.
Manchester City’s chairman delved into a large range of subjects whilst evaluating the club’s performance over the course of the 2024-25 project, with Pep Guardiola and co surrendering their Premier League crown to Liverpool and exiting the UEFA Champions League at the Round of 16 phase.
It turned from bad to even worse for the 2023 treble winners– who won the Premier League consecutively for 4 years between 2021-24– when Crystal Palace directly beat them in the FA Cup last, leaving the FA Neighborhood Shield as the only piece of flatware Manchester City lifted this term.
Hugo Viana is replacing Txiki Begiristain as director of football in the coming months as Manchester City pursue four to five first-team signings to challenge on all fronts in the 2025-26 campaign– after a sub-standard year on the pitch where they stopped working to meet the standards they have actually set on their own under Guardiola over the years.
Speaking during his annual end-of-season interview with Manchester City’s internal media team, the club chairman spoke freely about his thoughts on the upcoming FIFA Club World Cup tournament and how Pep Guardiola’s first-team squad are going to approach the matter.
“This is an extremely, very severe competitors (the FIFA Club World Cup),” the Etihad Arena chairman admitted.
“In the summertime, the whole world will be viewing this. A big number of the leading teams on the planet will be competing in this tournament.
“And I can assure you, we’re going to offer it our best shot. We’re entering there to win it,” he added. “We’re going to go and try to win this tournament.”
Al Mubarak also laid out the club’s aspirations of protecting all brand-new signings for the 2025-26 project in time for the Club World Cup, with Manchester City’s first-team team currently recovering on holiday but anticipated back in Manchester a few weeks’ time.
“This is the beginning of the brand-new season, not the extension of last season. You understand, we take some rest,” Al Mubarak included.
“The group will take the rest that they will take right now, and then they begin pre-season and then instantly directly into the into the Club World Cup.”
Manchester City are working on deals to sign Lyon’s Rayan Cherki, air conditioning Milan’s Tijjani Reijnders whilst holding a strong interest in Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White, Wolves’ Rayan Ait-Nouri and Newcastle full-back Valentino Livramento.