Pep Guardiola has taken the blame for Manchester City’s Champions League defeat in Barcelona, but says he will quit and go home to Spain before changing his ways. City were beaten 4-0 in the Nou Camp after Guardiola kept Sergio Aguero on the bench and then saw Claudio Bravo, the goalkeeper he signed to replace […]
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Pep Guardiola defended his tactics and team selection after his Barcelona homecoming ended in a nightmare 4-0 thrashing for Manchester City. The City manager’s decision to leave out Sergio Aguero backfired while Claudio Bravo, the goalkeeper in whom he has invested much trust, was also sent off in a Champions League mauling at the Nou […]
Despite displacing Petr Cech as the Chelsea No 1 to be a mainstay in the Blues’ title win less than 18 months ago, Thibaut Courtois has become statistically the worst goalkeeper in the Premier League. A promising start to the season under Antonio Conte has disappeared after successive defeats by Liverpool and Arsenal, and this […]
According to a report from the CIES Football Observatory,Manchester United defender Eric Bailly was the most overpriced Premier League signing during the summer. Bailly has been a revelation for United this season, after arriving for £32 million from Villarreal, but accordinf to the number crunchers at the CIES Football Observatory, United overpaid for the Ivorian […]
UEFA has already announced that beginning with the 2018-19 season, that the Big Four European Leagues (England, Spain, Italy and Germany) will all get four guaranteed spots in the group stages. Now according to a report in the German magazine Kicker, UEFA is getting set to roll out a new revenue distribution that could see […]
It must be the weekend of agent whinging. First it was Mino Raiola slamming Jurgen Klopp over his treatment of Mario Balotelli. Now is it the turn of the agent for Yaya Tour to turn up the hyperbole by saying that Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has “humiliated” Toure by leaving him out of City’s […]
Sergio Aguero has lost his appeal against an FA violent conduct charge and will now miss City’s next three domestic games including the derby clash with Mourinho’s Manchester United on September 10, as well as missing a meeting with Bournemouth in the Premier League and City’s EFL Cup trip to Swansea City. Aguero’s apparent elbow […]
Despite leading the Premier League in net transfer spend over the past five seasons, Manchester City’s transfer approach has had a rather slapdash feel to it. That is not the case this summer where Pep Guardiola can be as happy with his club’s business as José Mourinho is with his at Manchester United. Manchester City […]