Edin Dzeko has signed a new four-year contract with Manchester City, the new deal will keep him at the club until 2018. City manager Manuel Pellegrini wanted to make sure of keeping Dzeko as the striker played a crucial role in the team’s opening Premier League match at Newcastle on Sunday.

The striker from Bosnia-Herzegovina joined Manchester City from Wolfsburg for 27 million pounds in January 2011 and has managed to score 66 goals in 155 appearances in all competitions since then. He bagged the equaliser against QPR in 2012, a goal which allowed Manchester City to win the Premier League title in 2012. Last season he scored 26 goals as City claimed the Premier League title for the second time in three years.

Dzeko said: “I’m really happy here at City, it’s a second home to me, so It was an easy decision to stay for the long term. I knew from the beginning when I started here that I wanted to stay for a long time – I can’t see any place than here. I’m settled perfectly to life here, I know my team-mates, the club, the team very well and I feel like can improve even more. Over the last three-and-a-half years we’ve made history together but I feel like we are only at the start of something really special. There are still so many objectives and goals that I want to reach from my career in the game and I believe that I am in the perfect place to achieve them all.”

Manchester City play at home against Liverpool on Monday and Edin Dzeko is 6/5 at Bet365 to score at least one goal.