Monthly Archive: January 2022
The amount of control this City team exhibits in a league known for its physical toughness, extreme competitveness and fixture congestion makes me think that we are even better than Pep’s Barca, which is considered as one of the greatest club teams ever. This statement might infuriate many Barca fans, but the more you think about it, the more you realize that this argument actually makes more sense than you...
Man City don’t just defeat you, they hurt you in such a way that the scars take forever to heal. Both the matches against Chelsea this season were a statement from City for the hurting defeats last season, specially the Champion’s league defeat. Chelsea came into the game with their title hopes hanging on to a non-existent string. Chelsea fans hoped that Tuchel could again produce some magic and defeat...
It is quite remarkable to look back upon Pep’s era at City and realize that he had achieved all of these accolades and broken numerous records without a proper left back. Yet, people don’t hesitate for a moment to call him the cheque book manager. Well, all that discussion about the critics can be left for an other day, because the greater success you achieve, more sore losers will take...
Walking down the memory lane to 2008, when even the very existence of City looked bleak and surrounded in financial darkness, the current state of City almost looks like a dream too good to be true. After the take over, elite clubs like Man Utd and Arsenal thought that City’s story would be similar to what happened to Chelsea after their take over. They thought we would initially spend big,...
When Sheikh Mansour presented Pep’s Barcelona with the Champions league trophy in 2011, he was mesmerized by the way Barcelona built up their winning machine. It was a dynasty built to frighten opponents. This was the vision with which the City project began. All our opponents think that City is about money and buying the best players. They could not be more further from the truth. Project City was all...
Discussing positions for attacking players in a Pep Guardiola team is almost a non-sensical argument, because they simply don’t exist. We saw how Pep transitioned Foden into the first team, debuting him at left back and playing him in multiple attacking positions ever since. All of us were expecting midfield to be the place where Foden would finally end up. But, Pep always thinks in ways that sound like madness...
City started off the match with a lot of confusion among its fans, specially with many feeling that City are in deep trouble due to the Covid outbreak. All those doubts were put to rest when the teams came out. City put out a team that could easily have even beaten Bayern Munich. The team was that strong. The Swindon players would have surely been start struck by the players...
City’s Covid outbreak is said to have effected atleast 7 first team players and upto 12 members of City’s coaching staff including Pep Guardiola. Amid this crisis of sorts, few of our academy players are said to be given the nod in the FA cup game. Apart from the usual suspects like Cole Palmer and James Mcatee, Kayky is the name that stands out, given his progression to train with...
Well established sources close to the club are claiming that Arteta and Vieira are in the short list of managers to takeover when Pep Guardiola calls it a day on his Manchester City dynasty. The club is said to be looking at their progress with a keen eye. This is very interesting for me, because i never imagined that they would even be in consideration for the job. Managing Crystal...
Pep’s final year at Barcelona has been characterized by a change in formation to a 3-4-3. This was a formation which Pep had rarely used in his career and it exactly is not associated with free flowing football. That final season was a disaster for Pep and the general feeling was that the Barca team had burned out and the new formation was just an attempt by Pep to infuse...