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SPORTS THURSDAY | MAY 22, 2025

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K EVIN DE BRUYNE said he was proud of his part in making Manchester City the dominant force of English football over the past decade after playing in his final home match at the Etihad yesterday. De Bruyne was honoured before and after a 3-1 win over Bournemouth as City closed in on qualification for next season’s Champions League. A tearful De Bruyne bade farewell to City fans as he said he hoped they would remember him “with joy”. The Belgian made his 142nd and final home appearance for the club in yesterday’s 3-1 win over Bournemouth

‘Remember me with joy’ De Bruyne proud of Man City legacy

with these guys. I made friends for life and you know all together we will be back for sure.” Asked how he wanted to be remembered by fans, he said: “With joy. I want to entertain people and to win. This teams works incredibly hard, this team wants to win and they will win in the future with me or without me.” “It’s been an unbelievable ride, an absolute pleasure,” De Bruyne told Sky Sports . “You win, you lose sometimes. It was a joy working really hard and creating something for this club which brought the club much better than it was before. I’m super proud.” – The Independent/AFP

since Colin Bell to hit triple figures, while also piling up 177 assists. During his 10-year stay, De Bruyne became City’s most successful player, winning six Premier League titles, two FA Cups, five League Cups, the Champions League, the Super Cup and the Club World Cup. “I wanted to play with creativity, I wanted to play with passion,” he said. “I wanted to enjoy football and I hope, I think, everybody enjoyed it. Everybody pushed me so hard from the inside and outside the club to be the best version of myself. “These guys you see on the screen and these guys in front of me made me better than I was. It was an absolute honour to play

City players and staff had lined up to give De Bruyne a guard of honour as he walked out on to the pitch alongside his wife Michele and their three children, and the 33-year-old struggled to compose himself when first asked to speak. “Manchester is home,” De Bruyne said. “Manchester is where these little kids were born. I came here with my wife Michele and we didn’t expect to be here 10 years, to do what we have done as a club, with the supporters, my teammates. “We’ve won everything. We’ve made the club bigger and now they’re going to take over.” De Bruyne has scored 108 goals in 421 City appearances, the first City midfielder

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Draw Date: 21/05/25 (Wed)

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Crystal Palace’s Ben Chilwell (right) and Eberechi Eze celebrate after the match. – REUTERSPIC

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manager Oliver Glasner said. Palace’s shock victory over City in the FA Cup final earned them a first major trophy as well as a spot in Europe’s second-tier club competition next season. Club chairman Steve Parish said the squad would be strengthened to cope with the demands of European football, but Glasner warned against getting carried away. “This club got promoted in 2013. Since then, this club always progressed,” the Austrian told reporters ahead of Wolves match. “You can be a one-hit wonder – but then you are gone, so it just makes no sense. “And that’s why we said, our planning shouldn’t be, ‘now we play in Europe, so we do crazy things, and then everything collapses’. No, how is the pathway? We follow the pathway. “We get a special reward – we can play in Europe – but we don’t leave our pathway … “Now it’s going really step-by-step, but maybe winning this trophy, playing internationally, also getting this experience, maybe getting a player we couldn’t get if we don’t play international football, this can help us making the next step.” – The Independent/Reuters

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WEMBLEY shook and it was beautiful. Now, Crystal Palace are raring for a European tour. The details of yesterday’s Premier League 4-2 win against Wolves were insignificant to those home fans inside Selhurst Park. For them, it was party time, a homecoming for their FA Cup heroes. And it’s a celebration that will last long into next season, when Palace hit the continent for the first time in their history. After achieving what many assumed was out of reach, Eagles fans may now be forced to alter their psyche – now with reason to dream big.“This isn’t supposed to happen to Palace,” Chris Byfield, a Selhurst Park regular since the age of six, told The Independent pre-match. “Like we are not supposed to have glory. We’re supposed to have bitter disappointment and that’s just kind of our identity. I feel amazing and I don’t really know how to feel about that, feeling amazing. It’s not an emotion I’m used to.” Meanwhile, qualifying for the Europa League will help Palace attract a higher calibre of player but the Premier League club must aim for steady growth rather than risk everything on a crazy spending spree,

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