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...
People often have a wrong illusion that a super club once, always remains a super club. You don’t have to look farther than AC Milan to understand how false this notion can be. Dynasties burn down to ashes in the wink of an eye and they sometimes can be irreparable. Ferran Torres needs to have a hard think on labelling City as a stepping stone. I feel that he has...
It was a Carabao cup match against a relatively unknown proposition called as Wolves in 2017….that was the season when we were destroying teams in the Premier league…yet a team from Championship stifled us…Fernandinho was tied in knots….man marking our CDM with a striker is not new and just like Arsenal over the weekend, quite a few teams had tried it….but Pep always found a solution to it….so why were...
As Bernardo gave the ball away multiple times in the first half….i felt a slight sense of nervousness linger in my mind…deep down in your heart, you know that something is wrong about us today… we looked flat and disinterested…surprisingly even Pep looked lethargic today. Gabriel Jesus upfront makes the system rigid and effects our rythm Gabriel jesus will probably be given a -ve rating by most fans today. He...
