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Manchester City are currently chasing down Arsenal for the Premier League title
Manchester City are planning to open ‘talks’ with Phil Foden over a new contract, as per Football Insider. The attacking midfielder’s current deal expires in the summer of 2027. He has been on the books at the Etihad Stadium for his whole career to date.
Pep Guardiola’s side are currently sat in 2nd place in the Premier League table. They continue to chase down Arsenal for the title. The North West outfit are back in action on Wednesday night with a Champions League clash against Real Madrid.
Manchester City plan new talks with Phil Foden
City will want to reward for Foden for his performances over recent years. He has been a great servant to the club and their hierarchy won’t want to lose him anytime soon. The Stockport-born rose up through their academy ranks.
Foden, 25, is an England international with 47 caps to his name. He made his senior debut for City back in 2016 and he hasn’t looked back since. The playmaker has made 358 appearances in all competitions, 39 of which have come this season, and he has chipped in with 110 goals.
Ex-football scout Mick Brown has told Football Insider: “Man City want to give Phil Foden a new contract. Ultimately it’s a decision they’ll make because they want to protect his transfer value, even if there are concerns about his performances recently. It’s difficult in football, you want players to be on long contracts so that you don’t lose them for free, especially not players like Phil Foden.
“But there are concerns about the way he’s been playing, he can’t seem to nail down a place in the side and I think that will be a worry for Guardiola. It’s alarming how such a good technical player can have such highs and lows in his performances, he can’t seem to put together a consistent run of performances.
“If you didn’t know anything about Phil Foden, and somebody asked you to go and watch him from a scouting perspective, you’d wonder what all the fuss was about. He’s obviously a very talented player, on other days he can manipulate the ball in tight spaces like nobody else can do in England, but it’s not all the time.
“So I think Man City will want to commit his future and all of that sort of thing, but it doesn’t mean they’re happy with his performances, because they’ve been below par.”
City won 3-1 away at Newcastle United in the FA Cup last time out. They will now face Liverpool in the quarter-finals of the competition. A place at Wembley in the semi-finals will await the winner of that tie.
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