While several factors contribute to City’s decline, the absence of Rodri has been more damaging than expected.

Manchester City midfielder Rodri has offered a fresh update on his ongoing recovery from a serious knee injury, this time ...

For City, however ... as they contested a corner. Rodri was a talisman and the sticking plaster. He was ball-winner and passer, the man who set the tempo and cut out the counterattacks.

Manchester City have revealed Rodri has suffered ligament damage to his right knee, although the full extent of the injury remains unclear. The influential Spain international was injured in the ...

But as he looks back four months, to what now looks the moment Manchester City’s era of dominance came to an abrupt end, he said: “I would have preferred to lose that game and have Rodri all s ...