As today is the last day of transfer market date for Europian clubs. One of the top performer and true leader of the game has changed their destination.Ederson moraes have signed by Fenerbahçe.
All done for the €13m transfer fee agreed today.
Ederson will leave Manchester City as a legend 🩵
372 appearances, 18 trophies won.
🏆 6x Premier League
🏆 2x FA Cup
🏆 3x EFL Cup
🏆 3x Community Shield
🏆 Champions League
🏆 CWC
🏆 UEFA Super Cup
Individual Awards:
🏅 3x Golden Glove Winner
🏅 2x PFA TOTY
🏅’21 UCL SOTS
🏅 PL GK assist record.
🏅 The Best FIFA Goalkeeper: 2023
🏅 Globe Soccer Awards Best Goalkeeper: 2023
🏅 FIFPRO Men’s World 11: 2024
Here is the ten of Ederson’s greatest Manchester City performances—moments that show why he isn’t just a goalkeeper but a system in gloves. From nerve and nuance to reflexes and range, these games capture the arc of an era
1) The masterpiece in Istanbul: Inter Milan 0–1 Man City, 10 June 2023 (UEFA Champions League Final)
If you had to bottle the essence of City’s Treble, you’d trap it in Ederson’s 90 minutes against Inter. In a cagey final, he produced the kind of late, high-leverage stops that define careers: a reflex denial from Romelu Lukaku’s point-blank header and a commanding punch amid a mass of bodies in stoppage time. Distribution was conservative by design; security over spectacle. When the whistle went, so did a decade’s worth of European yearning—made possible by a goalkeeper playing with the poise of a veteran title fighter.
2) The quarterback pass that broke Paris: Man City 2–0 PSG, 4 May 2021 (UCL semi-final, second leg)
City’s first Champions League final berth was shaped by a single, audacious idea: the goalkeeper as playmaker. Midway through the first half, Ederson arrowed a first-time, line-splitting pass into Oleksandr Zinchenko’s stride, slicing PSG’s press and initiating the sequence for Riyad Mahrez’s opener. Against Neymar and Di María, he also managed the box with cool authority, dealing with skidding efforts and aerial traffic. It was the apotheosis of Guardiola-ball—built from the gloves up.
3) Nerve of steel in a title decider: Man City 2–1 Liverpool, 3 January 2019 (Premier League)
This was the night the 2018–19 title race tilted. Early on, chaos reigned: Sadio Mané hit the post, John Stones’ clearance cannoned off Ederson and spun toward goal… until Stones scooped it away with just 11 millimetres to spare. Later, Ederson smothered a Mohamed Salah effort and managed the counter-punches Liverpool specialize in. The fine margins reflected his game—risk managed, never feared. City won by one point that season; this was the hinge.
4) A goalkeeper with an assist: Man City 3–0 Tottenham, 13 February 2021 (Premier League)
Long before the Premier League leaned fully into elite distribution from keepers, Ederson was flicking the meta forward. His sweeping, flat 60-yard delivery dropped onto İlkay Gündoğan’s run to set up City’s second goal—an assist that felt equal parts NFL and futsal. He paired the party piece with alert shot-stopping and command of the space behind a high back line, throttling Spurs’ counter game and showing how a goalkeeper can be a chance creator.
5) Penalty-area poker at the Emirates: Arsenal 0–3 Man City, 1 March 2018 (Premier League)
Three-nil up away to Arsenal, City still needed clarity to choke off any comeback. Enter Ederson, who studied Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s tendencies and then guessed right, palming away the striker’s penalty to preserve a clean sheet. It wasn’t a high-volume save night; it was a high-significance one—proof of his growing reputation as a big-moment decision-maker.
6) The Wembley ice bath: Chelsea 0–0 Man City (4–3 pens), 24 February 2019 (Carabao Cup Final)
A tense final will forever be remembered for Kepa’s refusal to be subbed—but the shootout’s first decisive moment belonged to Ederson, who saved Jorginho’s opening penalty. In a duel defined by psychology, planting that early flag altered the geometry for everyone who followed. When Sterling smashed in the winner, City’s keeper had already tilted the deck.
7) Old-school bravery in a new-school team: Man City 5–0 Liverpool, 9 September 2017 (Premier League)
City’s free-scoring statement win contained a grimace-inducing flashpoint: Ederson racing out, winning the ball, and absorbing Sadio Mané’s high boot to the face. He returned-with-a-mask in the weeks after, but the message that day was immediate—City finally had a keeper willing and able to defend 40 yards of space behind an aggressive press. That audacity re-wired how the back four could behave.
8) The first taste of European ferocity: Man City 2–1 Napoli, 17 October 2017 (UCL group stage)
Upstart City met the most choreographed attack in Europe and needed their new No. 1 to live in the details. Ederson set the tone early and, crucially, saved Dries Mertens’ first-half penalty. It was the exact kind of hinge moment that separates group-stage comfort from jeopardy; in a 2–1 win, every inch mattered.
9) San Paolo storm-weathering: Napoli 2–4 Man City, 1 November 2017 (UCL group stage)
Two weeks later in Naples, under the lights and among the flares, City’s keeper added theatre to substance. This time it wasn’t just one big moment but a night of perpetual problem-solving—sweeps off his line, brave angles to narrow shooting lanes, and calm recycling of possession to defuse Napoli’s press. He looked born to the tempo.
10) Wembley calm in chaos—again
Ederson has authored numerous finals-weekend cameos, but his broader body of work in domestic showpieces helps complete the portrait: an aura that calms team-mates, compresses opponents’ options and keeps City on their positional rails when pressure peaks. The 2019 EFL Cup save from Jorginho gets the headlines, but it sits atop years of steady, near-errorless stewardship in crunch matches.
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What these ten games tell us about Ederson
1) He is City’s first line of attack
Against PSG in 2021, the assist-level pass to Zinchenko wasn’t a party trick—it was the point. Ederson’s range (lofted diagonals, drilled half-volleys, disguised clips) stretches a press until it snaps. Opponents who man-mark City’s pivots leave space behind; those who sit off give Kevin De Bruyne and company time. The “no-win” stems from a keeper who throws 60-yard questions with 5-yard accuracy.
2) He’s equally a risk manager
The 2019 Liverpool game, the 2017 trip to Naples, and even the 2023 final show his knack for suppressing chaos. Ederson excels at early body shapes—square, low, hands high—so shots hit him rather than demand acrobatics. He’s less about showreel saves and more about pre-emptive positioning. That’s how Inter’s best late looks still met a composed wall in Istanbul.
3) He’s built for high lines
From the Mané collision to countless sweeps outside the area, Ederson underwrites Guardiola’s 50-metre squeeze. He doesn’t just react; he interprets, often starting moves at the exact moment he ends the opponent’s. That’s why City’s centre-backs can compress the pitch and why the midfield can live in the opponent’s half without a permanent fear of the ball over the top.
4) He’s unflappable under maximum pressure
Penalty saves are low-percentage by nature, yet the context matters. Saving Jorginho to open a shootout was worth more than a routine stop at 4–0. Likewise, the late interventions versus Inter carried a season’s worth of consequence. The best goalkeepers don’t just make saves; they make the right saves when the stakes spike.
5) He changed the job description
When City signed Ederson, they weren’t just replacing a keeper—they were upgrading an interface. The Arsenal penalty save and the Tottenham assist neatly bookend his aperture: decisive at one end, decisive at the other. Few keepers combine volume distribution, high line coverage, and big-game temperament with such consistency.
Honourable mentions (because ten is not enough)
City 2–2 Liverpool, 10 April 2022 (Premier League): the now-iconic goal-line pass under pressure from Diogo Jota—equal parts cold blood and perfect calculus. Not a “saves” performance, but a defining act of composure in a title race.
Carabao Cup finals and FA Cup runs (2019–2021): fewer fireworks, more flawless routines—claiming crosses, resetting structure, and turning shootouts into solvable equations.
The legacy line
Talk to City fans about Ederson and you’ll get two answers to the same question. The first: he’s the guy who made 60 yards feel like six, the launch mechanism behind so many of De Bruyne’s diagonals and Haaland’s races. The second: he’s the one who made everything look routine when it mattered most—Inter at the death, PSG with a single swing of the right boot, Liverpool under the Etihad floodlights.
That duality is his true greatness. Lots of keepers save goals; a handful start them. Almost none do both while enabling a team to live forever on the front foot. Through these ten matches, you can trace the evolution of Manchester City’s most dominant era—and at its quiet centre, a goalkeeper whose calm feels like inevitability.