straight to your inbox Manchester City's hierarchy have always believed Lionel Messi would stay at Barcelona for the rest of his career... but that might have just changed.
06.08.2020 - 19:21 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
straight to your inbox It was revealed this week that Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane had been named the world's best manager ahead of Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp by French magazine L'Equipe. On the French coach, they said: "He is a coach who has experienced only one club, and quite rarely defeat.
straight to your inbox Manchester City's hierarchy have always believed Lionel Messi would stay at Barcelona for the rest of his career... but that might have just changed.
straight to your inbox Aleks Zinchenko has defended his comments and those of his new wife Vlada Sedan about Manchester City's Champions League loss to Lyon. Pep Guardiola was heavily criticised after the 3-1 defeat in Lisbon last week, and the manager's tactics were disputed by sports presenter Sedan on her vlog as she discussed the game with Zinchenko.
straight to your inbox Ferran Torres and Eric Garcia are in pole position to make the European Championships with Spain after being handed their first call-ups to the senior squad.
straight to your inbox RB Leipzig manager Julian Nagelsmann says Pep Guardiola's formation change was not the reason for Manchester City's Champions League exit. Guardiola's controversial change to 3-5-2 has been pointed to as a major factor in City's under-par performance against Lyon as the Blues fell at the quarter final stage for the third season in a row in Europe.
straight to your inbox Pep Guardiola said that the team will discuss what went wrong in a hotel meeting after their Champions League crash against Lyon. The Manchester City manager was asked about Raheem Sterling ’s astonishing miss – which would have made it 2-2 – but Guardiola appeared to broaden it out into a post-mortem on the whole performance, which was littered with errors.
straight to your inboxPep Guardiola refused to comment on the VAR decisions that went against Manchester City during their Champions League quarter-final defeat to Lyon.Maxwel Cornet opened the scoring for the French side in the first-half before Kevin De Bruyne finally levelled proceedings after the interval.City should have been ahead but Raheem Sterling missed an open goal from five yards out which sparked a counter-attack from Lyon.Moussa Dembele raced clear and appeared to trip Aymeric
straight to your inbox The cancellation of the pre-season tour has been problematic for a number of Manchester City youngsters. With senior players often absent through international commitments, the summer schedule is the one time in the year when Pep Guardiola can get a proper look at some prospects at a standard far more testing than the unreliable Premier League 2.
straight to your inbox Injury updates on Sergio Aguero were seen as being of key importance as Manchester City prepared to take on Real Madrid. But Pep Guardiola hinted that the Blues legend might not have played even if he had recovered from a knee injury he picked up shortly after the Premier League re-start.
straight to your inboxPep Guardiola admitted he got his tactics wrong during the first half of Manchester City's win against Real Madrid in the Champions League.The Spaniard made four changes to the side that defeated Madrid 2-1 at the Bernabeu back in February.
straight to your inbox Pep Guardiola said that beating Real Madrid twice is an important step in preparing Manchester City to win the Champions League. But if beating the 13-times winners home and away has strengthened the Blues’ mentality and self-belief, the Blues boss says they quickly have to put it into perspective.
straight to your inbox Zinedine Zidane has revealed Gareth Bale expressed a desire not to be included in Real Madrid's squad to face Manchester City in the Champions League. The Welshman was a notable absentee from Madrid's travelling squad ahead of the second-leg.
straight to your inbox Sergio Aguero’s fight to make the final stages of the Champions League – if Manchester City get there – is looking increasingly difficult.
straight to your inbox Aymeric Laporte insists Manchester City will have to be at their best to beat Real Madrid in their Champions League last 16 second leg. City hold a 2-1 lead from the first leg win at the Bernabeu in February, and Real Madrid must score twice to stand any chance of going through to the quarter finals.
It was revealed this week that Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane had been named the world's best manager ahead of Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp by French magazine L'Equipe. On the French coach, they said: "He is a coach who has experienced only one club, and quite rarely defeat.