Football: The king of midfield, Guardiola is crying with envy

Chapter 202

The reporters in the audience were so surprised.

The news headlines about Haaland and Manchester City are worth at least 800 if not 1,000. Don't you want to buy it?

Guardiola seriously answered the transfer questions that the media were more concerned about,

"I don't think we will sign any players before January. We will end the season with the current lineup."

In this regard, the reporters can only say that Guardiola's mouth is a liar.

Begiristain, the sports director of Manchester City, has clearly stated that there will be moves in the winter window, and you, a Spaniard with thick eyebrows and big eyes, are still hiding it.

Then a reporter stood up and asked Guardiola about the problem of Begiristain and Guardiola's different words.

Guardiola answered like this,

"I don't know what Begiristain promised you, but in fact, after I came back from Abu Dhabi, I sat down with Begiristain and everyone (to talk), and no name appeared on the negotiation table."

Is the above paragraph difficult to read?

Hey, it's Guardiola's original words.

In fact, Guardiola didn't know who would come to Manchester City at the end, and he had to be prepared to play the whole season with the current lineup.

To be honest, Manchester City will face the situation of fighting on four fronts in the second half of the season, and it is not possible without signings.

But the embarrassment is here.

For example, Dortmund will definitely not let Haaland go now if Manchester City wants to get him.

Although Manchester City can pay the penalty, as mentioned earlier, the Blue Moon is not Paris Saint-Germain, and it will not look good if they fall out.

Then Manchester City and Liverpool are pursuing Colombian striker Luis Diaz. The player himself prefers to go to Liverpool, and Manchester City has no chance.

Finally, there is Brentford striker Ivan Toni.

The English striker and Chen Chen worked together in the Little Bees. Although Arsenal launched a "strong pursuit" of Ivan Toni, it is foreseeable that the player must prefer to play in Manchester City.

The most difficult thing is that Brentford has set a price of 100 million pounds for Ivan Toney!

The relationship between the Little Bees and Manchester City is pretty good, but in business, they are ready to seize the shortcoming of Manchester City's "center forward shortage" and try to make a lot of money!

In this situation, both Manchester City and Arsenal chose to wait.

In summary, Manchester City does not have many options in the transfer market. They don't like the general ones, and the clubs that can enter their field of vision are unwilling to let go.

Even if they let go, Manchester City, which has always been rich and powerful, has to weigh it in the face of these high transfer prices.

In addition to the center forward, Manchester City is also looking to buy an authentic left back recently.

In Manchester City, Cancelo is not a genuine left back, he mainly plays right back.

As for Zinchenko?

The Ukrainian is positioned as a rotation role in Manchester City. His strength is actually very average, otherwise he would not have been loaned to a team like PSV Eindhoven by Manchester City before.

Of course, this is not to say that PSV is bad. There are so many teams in the top five leagues, and in the end Zinchenko went to a non-top five team. This is really hard to imagine and understand.

What's more interesting is that after Zinchenko returned from loan, Guardiola still chose Cancelo to play as left back, instead of the original left back Zinchenko to start.

The meaning is self-evident, it is difficult to take on the task.

In the transfer market, the only left back position that is worth looking at is Theo Hernandez.

However, the player and the club where the player belongs have offered hundreds of millions of dollars. Manchester City is obviously unwilling to spend so much money. Recently, the two sides are pulling the price.

And even if Manchester City is willing to spend money to buy Theo, it is still unknown whether the technical characteristics and game temperament of the French defender meet Guardiola's requirements.

Let's get back to the point.

The problem in the transfer has nothing to do with Chen Chen. He just needs to do his best.

At Villa Park, before the end of the first half, Chen Chen assisted Fernandinho to score a wonderful long shot!

The score came to 2-0!

The second half started with a change of sides.

Villa coach Gerrard waved his hand and made three substitutions.

Didn't we say that Villa had 4 wins and 7 draws in the last 11 league games?

That was the work of the former Dean Smith. He had already left before the match against Manchester City.

Gerrard took over temporarily.

The Liverpool star was coaching Glasgow Rangers the moment before, and Aston Villa the next moment.

Coaching a Premier League team is not an easy thing, and Gerrard cherishes it especially. So when Villa threw out an olive branch, former Liverpool player Gerrard came immediately.

But isn't it too abstract to start with Manchester City?

At least practice on a weak teamHands?

Gerrard can only accept his fate, because those weak teams that are easy to practice have played against Aston Villa.

Otherwise, how did the 4 wins in 4 wins and 7 losses come from?

When Gerrard officially announced that he would coach Aston Villa, Liverpool fans were still very excited!

They were looking forward to Gerrard being able to limit Manchester City and keep the three points in Villa Park!

But the fact is that Villa can't defend it at all!

A good cook can't cook without rice. For the current Villa players, it's good that they didn't get kicked out.

At the end of the game, Gerrard ended his first show as a coach of a Premier League team with a 0-4.

The 42-year-old Gerrard was very helpless.

If he hadn't abandoned training for several years, Villa's terrible midfield level would have been too terrible to look at. Liverpool's all-around midfielder back then, and now Villa coach Gerrard would have to make a "What? The head coach is warming up!" script!

It's a pity there is no if!

The MVP of this game was center back Ruben Dias, because both goals in the second half were scored by the Portuguese center back.

Chen Chen went down early, and he witnessed the Portuguese's super show in the second half!

I can only say that Ruben Dias's 80 million worth is not a bit of water!

There is nothing much to say about the game, after all, Aston Villa, which is in a trough period, is really too weak.

But the game between Manchester United and Arsenal the next day was really eye-opening!

Rangnick arranged a 4231 formation, with Sancho, Rashford and Ronaldo all playing.

Martial and Van der Beck sat on the bench.

Compared with the last round against Chelsea, Rangnick changed half of the starting lineup.

Good guy, the Germans are using the control variable method!

Rangnick vowed to find the traitor that Mourinho and Solskjaer did not find!

The outside world is saying that Ronaldo is the insider of this "goal hurting the team", but in fact, if it weren't for Ronaldo today, Manchester United would not be able to take three points from Arsenal!

The two sides were in a state of close combat and open and close at Old Trafford.

Neither Rangnick nor Tazi chose to defend!

As a result, there were 9 goals in this game!

Among them, Ronaldo scored two goals and scored twice.

Then B Fee, Maguire and Lingard, who came off the bench, each scored one goal.

On the Arsenal side, Odegaard made one pass and two shots, Smith Rowe and Elneny scored one goal each, and Lacazette, who came off the bench, scored a penalty.

The final score was 5-4, and Manchester United won at home!

After taking all three points, Rangnick breathed a sigh of relief.

The winning streak of neighbor Manchester City made Rangnick suffer the sarcasm of the Red Devils fans. Now that he has defeated Arsenal, he can relax.

However, this kind of sarcasm and complaints will not disappear out of thin air, it will only shift from Manchester United to Arsenal.

Arsenal has won one and lost two of the last three games, losing to Liverpool and Manchester United, so Tazi has to bear it.