Kalvin Phillips

The 26-year-old midfielder joins from Leeds United, having made 234 appearances over the course of eight seasons, scoring 14 goals and assisting 14.

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Manchester City have completed the signing of midfielder Kalvin Phillips from Leeds on a six-year contract, the Premier League champions have announced.

You are the best fans in the world.” You came into this club and gave every single player confidence and belief in a very difficult season and that’s what kept us in the league.” He wrote: “I cannot mention Leeds without mentioning one special person – Marcelo. The best manager I have ever come across. He then played a key role for England as they reached the final of Euro 2020 last year. “He will always be a champion in Leeds, remembered for playing his part in getting the club back to where it belongs and will always be welcome at Elland Road.” “City have again proved to be the best team in the country with an amazing squad and a manager in Pep Guardiola who is rightly considered to be the finest in the world.

The 26-year-old England international has signed a six-year deal with the Premier League champions. He becomes Pep Guardiola's third summer signing after the ...

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Manchester City have confirmed the signing of Kalvin Phillips from Leeds. The England midfielder has joined for £42m plus add-ons on a six-year contract.

The 26-year-old wrote: “I hope you guys understand my decision and will accept that I only want to chase my dreams and test myself against and with the best teams and best players on the planet. City owners, City Football Group, have made Palermo the 11th club fully under the CFG banner after acquiring a majority stake in the Sicilian side, who won promotion to Serie B last season. Personal terms have been agreed with Sinisterra, a 23-year-old Colombia international.

The balance of education and football training satisfied most schools in Leeds and when the club approached them to draft students into the youth development ...

“Even him and Ronny, they were fighting for the same place for a while but it was never a rivalry, never a competition. He will earn big money at the Etihad and for parts of last season, he was followed around by a documentary crew. “He was the one who came up to me in the dressing room,” Huffer says. Phillips had kept in touch with him and his brother Ronaldo. “I just said to him ‘Proud of you, bro. “I don’t know Kalvin personally, in the sense that we’re not close friends, but that was a difficult period for me and he’d always take the time to ask how I was doing,” Downing says. “When he was coming round to getting his pro deal, it was a big part of the conversation. But even if it wasn’t (Bielsa’s) decision, that was the point where Marcelo seemed to put total faith in Kalvin. It was like that big moment where something happens and no one looks back.” “He studied videos of Kalvin and saw what he did best.” “He didn’t have the pressure that the other lads in that year group had,” says Lucy Ward, Leeds’ education and welfare officer at the time. Phillips was in his mid-teens and coming to a professional club later than many kids do, and a letter was sent to him warning that Leeds’ request to take him out of school would be turned down. “Kalvin was with me as a first-team scholar to begin with, and for a while, he struggled to get into the team,” Naylor says. “You relate to the players who made it before you,” says Romario Vieira, a former Leeds youth-team player who knows Phillips well.