**Phil Foden – **Manchester City’s most successful academy graduate**** – **is on the verge of committing his long-term future to the Premier League side with a new contract.**
The Stockport-born superstar progressed through City’s youth system following his induction at the age of four and has gone on to make 349 appearances for the first team, scoring 110 and assisting 65 times.
In that time, Foden has won six Premier League titles, a UEFA Champions League, two FA Cup trophies and four League Cups. One season after Manchester City’s historic treble, Foden was awarded the PFA Player of the Year award for the 2023/24 campaign.
Pep Guardiola shared his desire for Phil Foden to spend the rest of his career at Manchester City at the start of last month and described the 25-year-old as a “special player” given his ability with the ball at his feet.
Following a tough 2024/25 campaign, where the attacker opened up about his mental and physical struggles, Foden has since returned to being of such high importance to Guardiola and his players.
Earlier this season, Foden scored twice against Borussia Dortmund in the UEFA Champions League before converting in four consecutive Premier League games against the likes of Sunderland and Crystal Palace.
Now, with his current deal due to expire in June next year, contract negotiations have been progressing well in recent weeks and a new four-and-a-half-year deal is crystalising, according to [TEAMtalk](https://www.teamtalk.com/manchester-city/phil-foden-new-deal-special-man-city-star-closes-hugo-viana-breakthrough-exclusive).
It is claimed that his new deal will offer a much greater significance in contrast to his current £225,000-per-week package, which could push him into the top-five earners at Manchester City behind Erling Haaland, Bernardo Silva, Omar Marmoush and Gianluigi Donnarumma.
The astounding news adds to a pre-existingly positive January transfer window for Hugo Viana – the City sporting director and Txiki Begiristain’s replacement who arrived in the summer last year – having signed the likes of Antoine Semenyo and Marc Guehi.
Viana has shown yet again that his ability to make deals happen is frankly unmatched and it reflects the vision he has for maintaining Manchester City’s dominance both on and off the pitch for many years to come.
Semenyo has scored twice and assisted once in three games so far since his £65 million move from Bournemouth whereas Guehi – who joined from Crystal Palace for £20 million – made his debut for the club on Saturday afternoon against Wolves.
The England international – who missed the midweek defeat to Bodo/Glimt due to ineligibility – is already seen as a pivotal solution to the ongoing injury crisis dampening Pep Guardiola’s side’s Premier League title hopes.