MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City forward Phil Foden has signed a four-year contract extension with the Premier League club until 2030.
Academy graduate Foden has won 17 major trophies at City, including six Premier League titles and the Champions League.
“Playing for this Club is all I’ve ever wanted to do and it’s always an honour to wear the shirt,” Foden said. “It’s not lost on me that I’ve been lucky enough to be part of a historic period with so many titles won, but we’re always looking to the future and trying to win more. ”
City is about to begin a new era after iconic manager Pep Guardiola stepped down at the end of last season.
Former Chelsea coach Enzo Maresca has taken charge and a deal has been agreed for England international Elliot Anderson to join from Nottingham Forest for a reported 116 million pounds ($155 million).
The 26-year-old Foden is considered one of the best English players of his generation, but was left out of England's World Cup squad after a disappointing season.
“At 26, his development is still ongoing, and we look forward to seeing the player Phil can become over the coming years,” City director of football Hugo Viana said.
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FILE - Manchester City's Phil Foden warms up for the English Premier League soccer match between Liverpool and Manchester City in Liverpool, England, on Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — Nicolás Maduro returns to court with his lawyers Wednesday and is expected to continue objecting to the U.S. military action that snatched the Venezuelan president from power and deposited him in New York to face drug trafficking charges.
Maduro, 63, and his wife Cilia Flores, 69, have been held at a Brooklyn jail ever since U.S. forces seized them from their Caracas home in a stunning middle-of-the-night raid and brought them to New York in early January.
Both have pleaded not guilty. They face potential life prison sentences if a jury agrees that they were part of a conspiracy to send cocaine into the U.S.
President Donald Trump’s administration has defended the raid as a “surgical law enforcement operation” in a criminal case first brought six years ago. Maduro has called himself a prisoner of war and his capture a kidnapping.
U.S. prosecutors say Maduro carried out a conspiracy to move thousands of tons of cocaine into the U.S. by colluding with Venezuelan law enforcement to help drug kingpins.
“I am not guilty. I am a decent man, the constitutional president of my country,” he said in Spanish at his arraignment in January.
Maduro’s lawyer, Barry Pollack, has said he expects to contest the legality of Maduro’s “military abduction.”
The lawyers have said there are complex legal defenses that the court must address before a trial can begin.
Maduro and Flores have not asked to be released on bail. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein has yet to set a trial date.
Police officers stand in front of a federal courthouse where former Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro is scheduled to make an appearance in New York, Wednesday, July 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
People protest in support of former Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores outside of Manhattan federal court, Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in New York.(AP Photo/Adam Gray)
People protest in support of former Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores outside of Manhattan federal court, Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in New York.(AP Photo/Adam Gray)
Law enforcement officers stand outside Metropolitan Detention Center ahead of a pre-trial hearing in former Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro's drug trafficking case, Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
A motorcade believed to be carrying former Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro arrives to a federal courthouse in New York, Wednesday, July 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Police officers wait for the arrival of a motorcade carrying former Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro in New York, Wednesday, July 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
A motorcade believed to be carrying former Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro leaves Metropolitan Detention Center ahead of a pre-trial hearing in a drug trafficking case, Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
FILE - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro points to supporters during a campaign rally in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, July 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
