Manchester City midfielder Phil Foden has signed a caller four-year declaration which volition support him astatine the nine until 2030.
The 26-year-old's erstwhile woody was owed to expire adjacent summertime but helium has opted to widen his enactment nether caller caput manager Enzo Maresca.
Foden was fixed his first-team debut arsenic a 17-year-old by erstwhile brag Pep Guardiola and has gone connected to marque 369 appearances for City, winning six Premier League titles, 1 Champions League and 2 FA Cups.
He was near retired of Thomas Tuchel's England World Cup squad successful May aft an inconsistent play wherever helium made lone 23 Premier League starts.
Foden says "he can't wait" to enactment with Maresca again, with the Italian an adjunct to Guardiola during City's Treble-winning 2022-23 season.
"Committing my aboriginal to City means everything to me. Playing for this nine is all I've ever wanted to bash and it's always an honour to deterioration the shirt," said Foden
"It's not mislaid connected maine that I've been fortunate capable to beryllium portion of a historical play with truthful galore titles won, but we're always looking to the aboriginal and trying to triumph more.
"I can't hold to enactment with Enzo again. He was superb during the Treble play – idiosyncratic each the players respected and loved moving with."
Foden, City's astir decorated subordinate alongside John Stones and Bernardo Silva, has played his full City vocation nether Guardiola, who ended his decorated 10-year stint astatine the nine successful May.
Foden acceptable a precocious barroom with his performances the twelvemonth aft City's Treble-winning season, registering a career-high 27 goals and 12 assists.
The consequent 2 seasons person been little productive, with Foden's relation successful the City broadside changing.
Last season, the pacier options of Jeremy Doku and Antoine Semenyo fed striker Erling Haaland from retired wide, with Rayan Cherki often preferred arsenic the playmaker successful an attacking midfield role.
That meant Foden occasionally operated deeper, limiting his quality to people and proviso the slayer pass.
Last play Foden scored 7 goals and assisted 5 times successful 33 Premier League games, portion the erstwhile run helium scored 7 and assisted doubly successful 28 top-flight matches.
After being near retired of Tuchel's World Cup squad this summer, the Professional Footballers' Association said Foden had been a "victim" of football's packed fixture schedule, adding helium "has not been the mentation we saw 2 years ago".
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