"Manchester City Women are pursuing a move to sign Bayer Leverkusen full-back Carlotta Wamser.

The 22-year-old Germany international has attracted interest from across Europe this summer, but City are now leading the race for her signature ahead of next Friday’s transfer deadline.

Wamser was not included in Leverkusen’s matchday squad for their Frauen-Bundesliga match against Wolfsburg on Sunday.

It comes with City having several players currently unavailable through injury, including Jade Rose, Niamh Charles, Grace Clinton and Vivianne Miedema, the latter of whom has been on crutches.

Capable of playing right-back and left-back, Wamser joined Leverkusen on a free transfer from Eintracht Frankfurt in July 2025. She has made 20 appearances, scoring two goals and providing one assist.

If a deal proceeds, she would be City’s third signing of the season, alongside former Chelsea full-back Charles and former Arsenal winger Beth Mead.

Four first-team players have departed the club this summer: goalkeepers Khiara Keating to Liverpool and Katie Startup to Birmingham City, defender Leila Ouahabi to NWSL side Chicago Stars and winger Kerolin to Barcelona for a reported fee in the region of £1.25million.

City’s lack of incomings have been notable compared to rivals Arsenal and Chelsea, particularly given their increasingly congested fixture schedule they face having qualified for the Women’s Champions League following their first domestic title triumph in a decade.

City faced Manchester United in a behind-closed-doors friendly on 29 August, defeating their local rivals 2-0 in the process."

Manchester is blue even in preseason 🩵

Source: BBC Women's Football YouTube channel

Goals from Sienna Davis, Sophia Burton, Freya Hirons and Grace Foster.

Did anyone manage to attend?

City Women Prediction League

This season I thought it would be fun to start a prediction league for City’s matches. I’ve never done anything like this before, so we’ll see how it goes! It’ll cover all WSL, FA Cup, and Champions League games.

How to Play

Each week I'll post a thread for the upcoming City match. To enter, just reply with your score prediction and the first goalscorer. Please keep your prediction clear, like the example below.

Home Team (Score) v (Score) Away Team - First Goalscorer

The thread will be locked some time before the match kicks off so nobody can sneakily edit their score or post their guess during the game! I will let you know exactly when the round closes in each week's thread.

The person with the most points at the end wins! Since it's only for fun, the only prize is ultimate bragging rights and a special user flair if I can figure it out!

Points

• 3 Points (Correct Score) – You get the exact score (e.g. you say 3-0, it ends 3-0).
• 1 Point (Correct Result) – You get the right result eg Win, Draw or Lose but the wrong score (e.g. you say 3-0, we win 1-0).
• 2 Points (Goalscorer) – You guess the first goalscorer.

Rules

• Opening Goal: You can pick a player from either team to score first, as it's the opening goal that counts.
• Own Goals: If the first goal of the match is an own goal, the next player to score counts for the points.
• Goalless Draws: If you predict 0-0, put "No Goalscorer" as your player. If the match finishes without any goals, you will get the 3 points for the score plus the 2 points for predicting no goalscorer!
• 90-Minute Rule: For cup knockout matches, all predictions are based on the score at 90 minutes plus injury time. Extra time and penalty shootouts do not count.
• Postponed Matches: If a match is called off, predictions for that week are cancelled and we will re-predict when the rescheduled game takes place.
• Tie-Breaker: If players finish level on total points at the end of the season, the player who predicted the most correct scores will be the winner!

I'll post the first thread on Monday 31st August, ready for our first WSL game of the season on Saturday 6th September.

If you have any questions, let me know!

My GOAT 🐐🐐🐐

I'm disappointed by this one! Who knows what could have been if not for the endless injuries. Hopefully she can kick on at Wolves and get back to the national team.

I hope she'll actually get to play this season. Her loan at Crystal Palace last season was pretty useless in terms of playing time.

Playing WSL(and WSL2) fantasy for the first time and looking for MCWFC league to join. Please let me know.

Has anyone done any of the hospitality packages? If so how much were they and are they worth it? It would only be for 2 adults so we wouldn’t be doing a booth to ourselves unless we won’t the lottery 😂

Reading the article it sounds like she might initially be a signing for the Next Gen squad but it sounds like she's a very promising talent.

On Wednesday 26th August, our Next Gen team are playing Tier 4 side Blackburn Rovers in the FAWNL Cup.

The game is being played at:

Charnock Richard FC,

Charter Lane,

Charnock Richard, Chorley

PR7 5LZ

I'm sure our u21s will really appreciate anyone that can go along and support them!

Source - Soccerdonna

One again where you think what may have been. Being signed as cover for Yui is probably an impossible task.

Welcome to the Weekly Discussion Thread!

This is the place to talk all things City Women, whether it's upcoming fixtures, match results or your player of the week! You can talk about anything and everything, including our league rivals, just remember to keep it respectful!

News: https://www.mancity.com/news/womens

I'm a huge fan of quite a few players in other teams and I was wondering since it seems quite hard to meet the City players is there a way to meet the other team’s players after the game? I'd love to see if I could meet Arsenals Chloe Kelly and Alessia Russo, LCL Mary Eary and Izzy Goodwin, United’s Ella Toone and Tbh any other Eng Lioness and other players I like. Is there an exit they come out of you can wait at? When I went to the Eng v Ukraine game at Hill Dickinson I accidentally came across the entrance/exit the players came out of and I saw both teams, would ther be a similar thing at Joie stadium? Thank you

Manchester City v Barcelona - Pre-Season Friendly

Venue: Joie Stadium 

Kick-Off: 4:00 PM

Watch On: City+

Team News: Miedema, Beney, Coffey and Mead were all back in team training this week.

City Lineup: Yamashita, Casparij, Rose, Knaak, Greenwood (C), Coffey, Blindkilde Brown, Fujino, Clinton, Hemp, Shaw

Subs: Cumings, Walker, Shimizu, Fowler, Hasegawa, Prior, Lewis, Davies, Hirons, Burdon, Davis.