Le 22 août dernier, Manchester City a annoncé que Pep Guardiola avait dû être opéré en urgence. « Pep Guardiola a subi aujourd’hui une opération de routine pour un problème de dos. L’entraîneur de Manchester City souffrait depuis quelque temps de fortes douleurs dorsales et s’est rendu à Barcelone pour se faire opérer d’urgence par le Dr Mireia Illueca. L’opération s’est déroulée avec succès et Pep va maintenant se rétablir et se rééduquer à Barcelone. En son absence, le directeur adjoint Juanma Lillo supervisera l’entraînement de l’équipe première sur le terrain et assumera les fonctions sur le banc de touche jusqu’au retour de Pep. Le retour de Pep est prévu après la prochaine trêve internationale. Tout le monde à Manchester City souhaite à Pep un prompt rétablissement et se réjouit de le revoir bientôt à Manchester.»
Quelques semaines plus tard, le technicien espagnol âge de 52 ans va faire son retour à Manchester. AS explique qu’il s’est parfaitement remis de son opération et qu’il dirigera ses hommes jeudi à l’entraînement afin de préparer la rencontre face à West Ham. En son absence, les pensionnaires de l’Etihad Stadium, dirigés par Juanma Lillo, n’ont pas été perturbés puisqu’ils se sont imposés face à Sheffield United (2-1) et Fulham (5-1). Guardiola aura quelques jours pour préparer ensuite le premier match de Champions League face à l’Etoile Rouge de Belgrade à domicile.
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You’re unlikely to find too many people doubting that Pep Guardiola is the best football coach of the modern era, and the Man City manager has hinted at his future plans ahead of the Community Shield with Arsenal.
The former Barcelona and Bayern man has changed the way that football is played in the Premier League, and for the most part has managed to ensure his City sides are head and shoulders above the rest of the English top-flight.
Though it’s been a few years in the making, a treble of FA Cup, Premier League and Champions League in 2022/23 was no more than the Cityzens deserved.
Pep, ever the perfectionist, almost certainly won’t allow his players to rest on their laurels. After the Community Shield, there’s the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup to win in order to complete the sextuple, and the defence of their treble will also be an added motivation.
If they can add the Carabao Cup too, they’ll be the first in history to do the quadruple, and, injuries permitting, one can imagine they could go close.
The drive and desire to consistently be the best must take an awful lot out of you, and Guardiola gave an interview on his future plans.
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“I signed a contract for another two years because I feel comfortable – and nothing has changed whether we won (the treble) or didn’t win,” he was quoted as saying by the Manchester Evening News.
“I am happy and the people are happy, the board and the hierarchy especially, because they decide in the end which manager is going to lead this group of players.
“If they are satisfied, I am still satisfied. I want to defend what we won and maybe at the end of the season, if I am tired, we will talk with the club – or maybe extend more.”
Those managers that thought they only had another two seasons to wait will likely be holding their heads in their hands after hearing that.
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Bernardo Silva at PSG? It’s the dream of football adviser Luis Campos. Nevertheless, Manchester City intends to upset the Parisian plans, like Saudi Arabia which would set its sights on the Portuguese after the failure Lionel Messi.
bernardosilva is the dream signature of LuisFields for the PSG. This is indeed what 24hfootnews.com revealed to you on August 3, 2022. What now? Months have passed, but the will of the football adviser of the PSG has not been altered. So much so that 24hfootnews.com has unpacked the whole plan of the ParisHoly–German at the beginning of last June regarding the future of bernardosilva.
Manchester City wants to continue with Bernardo Silva
Whether after the Champions League final or during the international break in June, Bernardo Silva confessed that he did not know what his future would be like. And it would seem according to the latest echoes that PepGuardiolatrainer of ManchesterCitywould seriously complicate the task of PSG for a transfer of his favorite bernardosilva. The Spanish technician would like to keep the Portuguese. And although the heart rateBarcelona is no longer in the ranks, for financial reasons, another threat would hover over the PSG.
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Still no decision for Bernardo Silva, Saudi Arabia in ambush
On his account Twitterthe journalist WellJacobs released the following information about the soap opera bernardosilva. According to him, Al–Hilal wouldn’t let go of the Portuguese after missing the mark with LionelMessi and in parallel with his dream of recruiting Neymar. However, bernardosilva would not have yet decided for the rest of his career. Will stay ManchesterCity ? THE PSGor Saudi Arabia? Ben Jacobs confides that ManchesterCity would like to keep it. The tone is set.
Manchester City striker Erling Haaland is reportedly set to be offered a new contract after a release clause that had been in his deal was removed due to it being tied to Pep Guardiola’s future.
The Norway international previously had a release clause that would have become active in 2024, but now the Athletic report that that clause is no longer there with the recent extension of Guardiola’s contract at the Etihad Stadium.
Haaland has been sensational since moving to City from Borussia Dortmund last summer, scoring 47 goals in 40 games in all competitions to have the team dreaming of a potential treble victory.
It seems inevitable that other top clubs around Europe will be keeping an eye on Haaland with stats like that, but it now looks like City are in a stronger position to secure his future.
Erling Haaland celebrates a goal for Manchester City
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The Athletic now claim MCFC will offer the 22-year-old a new contract, so it will be interesting to see if that also ends up including any clauses.
It was a major statement signing by City to bring an elite performer like Haaland to the club, but now keeping him for the long term will be the test.
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Former Southampton and Everton striker James Beattie believes that Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola did a big favour to Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta with the deals for Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko last summer.
City took a bit of a gamble by letting these two useful squad players leave, and they’ve gone on to become hugely important to Arsenal, who are now sitting top of the Premier League table and possibly looking surprise favourites for the title.
It’s possible that Guardiola didn’t see Arsenal as too much of a threat before the start of the season, so allowed Jesus and Zinchenko to move to the Emirates Stadium as a bit of a favour to Arteta, who worked as his assistant at the Etihad Stadium before taking on his first managerial job with the Gunners.
Beattie would like to see Arsenal win the title, but he admits he thinks Guardiola gave Arteta a pretty big helping hand by selling two top players to him.
“It remains to be seen whether Gabriel Jesus’ return will prove to be the decisive factor in this title race, but already, since his comeback, you can see just how hungry he is to get in among the goals and help his team out. He’s taken his game to a different level and we’re seeing a side to him which, perhaps, we didn’t really see at Man City, and it’s only been of benefit to Arsenal so far,” Beattie exclusively told Ladbrokes Fanzone.
Oleksandr Zinchenko and Gabriel Jesus with Man CityOleksandr Zinchenko and Gabriel Jesus with Arsenal
“He’s so difficult for defenders to play against because he’s unselfish, he’s quick both on and off the ball, and he’s got an eye for a goal. He’s exactly the kind of player you want to return to your team at this point in the season, but then again Manchester City haven’t exactly ended up with a bad replacement for him, have they?
“You wonder what sort of conversations took place over the summer to allow Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko to leave City for Arsenal. I almost think Pep [Guardiola] has allowed the pair of them to leave as a favour for a mate in Mikel [Arteta]!
“You wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case, and I don’t think Pep is necessarily kicking himself for letting them leave, because of the sheer strength in depth he’s got available to him. If both lads were only going to play small parts for City this season, then Pep’s done the right thing for everyone involved. Would he have expected Arsenal to be in a title race with him this season? Probably not, but for that, I honestly think he’d think ‘fair play’.
“And, again, Mikel deserves a lot of credit, first of all for using his links and relationship with City, then for identifying the kind of players who’d fit straight into his team and his vision, and then for getting the best out of them straight from the first game this season.
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“But, ultimately, it’s those lads, Zinchenko and Gabriel Jesus, who deserve most of the credit, because they’re the ones who’ve made the move, added something new to Arsenal and delivered. Any kind of feeling they may have had in the summer, perhaps around not feeling wanted or needed at City, they’ve channelled it into a positive and used it as motivation, and both have done an incredible job up to this point.”
On the title race in general, Beattie added: “I think a lot of people will rightly think that Man City still have a great chance of winning the title, but both them and Arsenal are heading into this run-in in completely different situations.
“Arsenal know exactly what they’ve got ahead of them; no cup competitions, so it’s nine straight games, it’s in their hands and they know what they need to do to win the league. City are still going strong on all fronts, and could end up playing twice as many games as Arsenal if they were to make the final of the FA Cup and the Champions League.
“Of course, Pep will want to go after all three trophies, and he has the depth within his squad to do so, but if he favours one competition in particular over another, then he may see one of those other competitions as an opportunity to rest a few first-team players. It’ll be interesting to see what happens between now and then, but, like I’ve said before, I’d love for Mikel to win it.”
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Leeds United have been linked with a number of managers since the departure of Jesse Marsch.
The Premier League side have appointed Javi Gracia on a short-term contract and it remains to be seen whether the former Watford manager can guide them to safety this season.
The Premier League side have been linked with a move for the River Plate manager Marcelo Gallardo in recent weeks.
Premier League manager Pep Guardiola has now heaped praise on the 47-year-old Argentine claiming that he is one of the finest coaches in world football.
“What Gallardo has done with River is incredible,” Guardiola once told TNT Sports.
“Some things are inexplicable. Every year, three coaches are named as the best in the world (by FIFA). He’s never among them. I can’t understand it. It’s as if there’s nothing else in the world apart from Europe.”
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Gallardo has spent eight seasons with River Plate and he has helped them win 14 trophies. It remains to be seen whether Leeds are prepared to approach him at the end of the season.
The Whites are currently pushing for safety and they must look to preserve their status as a Premier League club in order to attract a quality manager like Gallardo in the summer.
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Josep Guardiola was not kind to his squad after Manchester City’s elimination against Southampton in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup (0-2).
Manchester City will not achieve a full card. On Wednesday, Josep Guardiola’s Citizens lost on the Southampton lawn (0-2), at the Carabao Cup quarter-final stage. Second in the Premier League five points behind Arsenal, the English club let slip a trophy, certainly far from being the most prestigious as the double confrontation against the Germans of RB Leipzig in the knockout stages of the Champions League looms , on February 22 and March 14. Invited before the journalists after the meeting, the Spanish coach gave an uncompromising assessment of his team’s performance.
“To win, you have to deserve it”
For the former manager of FC Barcelona, the exit from the road of the reigning English champion does not suffer from any dispute and is ringing the alarm bell for the next meetings. “The best team won. She was better. We had a bad night, we didn’t play well. We didn’t react well after our bad start and we didn’t perform well. To win games, I’m not talking about titles, to win games, you have to deserve it. So I want to deserve when I win something, I want to deserve it. And today, that was not the case. This is why Southampton deserve to be in the semi-finals in this competition.”
Erling Haaland’s partners will have to bounce back this Saturday during the derby against Manchester United at Old Trafford, counting for the 20th day of the Premier League. During the last day, the victory at Chelsea (1-0) had allowed Manchester City to achieve a good operation in its distance fight with Arsenal, held in check by Newcastle (0-0).
Manchester City are looking to tie 17-year-old defender Rico Lewis down to a new long-term contract after making his debut for the Premier League club this season.
The Manchester club are working on the deal and will try to get it done in the next few weeks/months, states transfer journalist and CaughtOffside columnist Fabrizio Romano.
The defender’s current contract expires with City in 2024 and the Manchester club see Lewis as a big part of their future with Guardiola being very impressed by the youngster so far.
The Man City boss praised Lewis after last night’s Carabao Cup match with Chelsea, saying via Fabrizio Romano: “He’s exceptional. He’s 17 years old, he was perfect against Chelsea… the future will be bright for Rico, I trust him for the future.”
Manchester City are working to get Rico Lewis’ new long-term deal done – it will be discussed in the next weeks/months.? #MCFC
Pep Guardiola: “He’s exceptional. He’s 17 years old, he was perfect against Chelsea… the future will be bright for Rico, I trust him for the future”. pic.twitter.com/FW6LCI8eW4
Guardiola gave Lewis his debut this season in City’s Premier League clash with Bournemouth and the 17-year-old has played in a total of six games for the reigning league champions so far.
The Man City academy graduate even became the club’s youngest-ever Champions League scorer with his strike against Sevilla at the age of 17 years and 346 days.
The right-back has shown signs of a bright future in the game already and it is smart from Man City to get the youngster tied down to a long-term deal.
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