Blue Moon Podcast - A Manchester City Show

Ahead of the World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico, David Mooney is joined by guests from each of the countries that have Manchester City players in their squads to discuss what roles those players will have for their national teams and their chances of bringing home a winners medal at the end of the tournament.

The guests (in order of appearance) are:

🇫🇷 Jeremy Smith (on Cherki, France)

🇳🇴 Jens Friberg (on Haaland, Norway)

🇺🇿 Conor Bowers (on Khusanov, Uzbekistan)

🇵🇹 Tom Kundert (on Bernardo, Dias and Nunes, Portugal)

🇪🇸 Guillem Balague (on Rodri, Spain)

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jack Pitt-Brooke (on Stones, Guehi, O'Reilly and Trafford, England)

🇬🇭 Akosua Adjei (on Semenyo, Ghana)

🇭🇷 Lovre Nikolac (on Gvardiol and Kovacic, Croatia)

🇩🇿 Nadim (on Ait-Nouri, Algeria)

🇪🇬 Marwan Saeed (on Marmoush, Egypt)

🇧🇪 Sacha Tavolieri (on Doku, Belgium)

🇳🇱 Arthur Renard (on Reijnders and Ake, Netherlands)

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To close this season, David Mooney is joined by City fan Richard Burns, journalist and City fan Dom Farrell from Sporting News, and the former City manager Brian Horton to reflect on the 2025-26 season and the Pep Guardiola era as a whole.

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David Mooney is joined, at varying stages in this special episode, by City fans KC, Gaz, Chris Higginbottom, Sam Rosbottom, Adam Carter and Bob Toole, plus journalists Paul Hirst from The Times and Jack Gaughan from the Daily Mail, all to reflect on a remarkable 10 years of Pep Guardiola at the Etihad.

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What a week. Manchester City have lifted the FA Cup to make it a domestic cup double, but a draw at Bournemouth on Tuesday also ended their hopes of lifting the Premier League title... while the news also broke this week that Pep Guardiola will call time on his career at the Etihad at the end of the season.

David Mooney is joined by City fan Ciaran Murray and, from the Manchester Evening News, Simon Bajkowski to try and make sense of all the emotions that we're feeling. Both the victory over Chelsea and the stalemate on the south coast can only be viewed through the prism of the last days of the Guardiola era, with similar thoughts looking ahead to this Sunday's match with Aston Villa.

What will life look like after Pep? We hear from Barcelona fan Manu and Bayern Munich fan Felipe as they explain what happened to their clubs after Guardiola stepped down. And why is Enzo Maresca the club's choice of successor? We discuss it all.

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After back-to-back 3-0 victories, Manchester City have (at the very least) made sure the title race goes down to the final week of the season. David Mooney is joined by City fan Dan Burke and, from Sporting News, Dom Farrell to reflect on the performances and the results against both Brentford and Crystal Palace.

There was impressive displays from Phil Foden this week, so we look at whether he could grab a place in the starting XI for the FA Cup final against Chelsea on Saturday... and with such a big game in mind, how does Pep Guardiola balance that and going away to Bournemouth the following Tuesday?

Sam Rosbottom is on the show to talk through some weird, quirky and strange facts and figures about City in FA Cup finals, while the journalist and Bournemouth fan Robert Santonna returns to give his thoughts on the Cherries' push for a European spot.

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