City Women’s Team | 2025/26

[IrishBloodEnglishHeart]

did you miss the "and new season build up" bit? :-)

Ah I did. Hemp must be special for her to just have her picture chosen.... They know what they're doing :)

 

[citizen_maine]

Ah I did. Hemp must be special for her to just have her picture chosen.... They know what they're doing :)

Well, we are playing in the first game of the new season

 

[IrishBloodEnglishHeart]

Well, we are playing in the first game of the new season

Yep. Lovely of BBC to be nice to us for once and choose one of our players for the picture and not the champions. I'm all for it

 

[bluealf]

Just catching up and I'm sad to see Jess going to the rag twats, a transfer we may well regret.

 

[Blackley_Blue]

Really happy with the Clinton signing.

Really not happy selling Jess Park.

 

[bumbleblue]

Any confirmation of the Park/Clinton situation?

 

[Alex6691]

Any confirmation of the Park/Clinton situation?

Not yet. Park had her medical yesterday and Clinton was due to have hers today. City have a habit of announcing transfers on the hour and the window closes at 11pm so 4 more opportunities!

Apparently it isn’t necessarily a swap deal and a fee is being exchanged for the players but due to Clinton having a higher fee, we’re just paying the difference

 

[Alex6691]

Looking like it’s imminent

 

[IrishBloodEnglishHeart]

I think the club usually like to get all the media recorded and interviews done etc so when they announce it they can realise all that

 

[Alex6691]

Love the “I feel like the future of the club and I aren’t on the same page”

Their fans are already pissed about losing her and now that statement is going to send them into meltdown. It’s all worth it for that alone

 

[better dead than red]

I'd love if Grace got her own "Welcome to Manchester " even if only on Instagram and X.

 

[Alex6691]

Reckon this gets announced tomorrow morning now

 

[Mr HJ]

It's going to be a really interesting lineup tonight. Given that Grace, Mary, Rebecca and Aoba will be unavailable there will still be some tough choices for the manager. Keeper esp. I would go for Yama as we need a clam experienced head in nets. Will tell us a lot although I would go with:

Yama
Kirsten Rose Alex Weinrother
Lohmann, Yui, Viv
Lauren, Bunny, Kerolin

Beney, Coombs, Prior, Murphy, Keating, Laura B-B, Naomi, Leila, Cody

 

[Blackley_Blue]

It's going to be a really interesting lineup tonight. Given that Grace, Mary, Rebecca and Aoba will be unavailable there will still be some tough choices for the manager. Keeper esp. I would go for Yama as we need a clam experienced head in nets. Will tell us a lot although I would go with:

Yama
Kirsten Rose Alex Weinrother
Lohmann, Yui, Viv
Lauren, Bunny, Kerolin

Beney, Coombs, Prior, Murphy, Keating, Laura B-B, Naomi, Leila, Cody

When you add in the players missing and still to return, it's actually a lot stronger squad than I had in my head.

Still don't think we'll trouble Chelsea & Arsenal but 3rd should be the target.

 

[Alex6691]

When you add in the players missing and still to return, it's actually a lot stronger squad than I had in my head.

Still don't think we'll trouble Chelsea & Arsenal but 3rd should be the target.

If and it’s a big if, we can avoid the same injury crisis we had last year I think we’ve got a genuine quality squad now with good strength in depth to challenge

 

[SpeaksForItself]

When you add in the players missing and still to return, it's actually a lot stronger squad than I had in my head.

Still don't think we'll trouble Chelsea & Arsenal but 3rd should be the target.

The one word you would not use to describe our squad over the last few years was 'balanced'.

We've had a good summer and now it is. It's definitely the best squad we've had for four seasons, possibly six.

It's true to say that in a world there were no injures, Chelsea's reserves would finish top 4. I'm not sure Arsenal's squad is that much deeper than ours.

 

[Mon Autre]

When you add in the players missing and still to return, it's actually a lot stronger squad than I had in my head.

Still don't think we'll trouble Chelsea & Arsenal but 3rd should be the target.

The natural pessimist in me agrees with you. But player for player, why shouldn't we trouble Arsenal? They honestly only have a couple of players id put into our starting 11. We will need to hit the ground running under the new manager but I think we should be looking to be ahead of Arsenal.

 

[IrishBloodEnglishHeart]

Random one - anyone know when Panini will be releasing the 2025/26 WSL trading cards? My daughter really got into them last season but can't find any info online

 

[Alex6691]

Random one - anyone know when Panini will be releasing the 2025/26 WSL trading cards? My daughter really got into them last season but can't find any info online

Think it was November last season

There was a trading card stand/sticker swap or something in the fan zone inside the Joie last season at quite a few games. Think they may have been handing out the albums for free when they released

 

[IrishBloodEnglishHeart]

Think it was November last season

There was a trading card stand/sticker swap or something in the fan zone inside the Joie last season at quite a few games. Think they may have been handing out the albums for free when they released

That's what got her into it :) Shed built up a decent collection and would take the cards and trade them at the game. Really good of Panini/City to do that