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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Daniel Murphy

New-look Man City EDS make great start in proving manager wrong in title defence

It's been a summer of change at Manchester City and that doesn't just mean the first team.

While Pep Guardiola has ushered in a new, perhaps even more exciting, era with the arrivals of Erling Haaland and Julian Alvarez and the departures of Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus, that feeling of rejuvenation and a new beginning is reflected throughout the club's youth sides.

City achieved a remarkable clean sweep last season, with the seniors, Under-23s and Under-18s all winning their league titles and, while there's been plenty of change in those young sides as well. Of the 16 players involved in the final game of last season, a 7-0 hammering of Everton, only Miki van Sas, Luke Mbete, Rico Lewis and skipper Shea Charles were involved as the Blues took on Leicester City on Sunday, their first home game of the season.

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