Manchester City have completed the £42m transfer of Kalvin Phillips from Leeds United, with the potential to pay an additional £3m based on performance-related targets.
Pep Guardiola may have to abandon key principle to maintain Man City dominance
17.06.2022 - 14:27 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
With the 2022 World Cup in Qatar just months away, Pep Guardiola and Manchester City will have to start their preparations now -even if it means abandoning one of the manager's key principles.
Throughout his tenure at the Etihad Stadium, Guardiola has tended to keep a very tight squad. Despite fans and pundits alike praising City's incredible strength in depth, injuries in certain areas of the team do leave the options limited and often players are played out of position.
It has happened at left-back for years, but consistent injuries picked up in central defence towards the end of the season forced the likes of Fernandinho and Rodri to play emergency roles in some of City's key games. Against West Ham and Aston Villa, in particular, we saw how the former struggled to cope with those demands.
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The Blues are expected to compete on all four fronts again this season and will likely go very deep into every competition - that means a lot of games in a very short space of time. But this season has thrown in the added complication of the World Cup, where the season will pause on 13 November and resume on Boxing Day.
All of this means more fixtures will have to be squeezed into a smaller window, placing incredibly tough demands on the players. With the vast majority of City's stars also jetting off to the World Cup, Guardiola and his backroom staff may need to do something they have never done before and go against the manager's usual strategy.
Last week, the Blues completed the £51million signing of Erling Haaland from Borussia Dortmund and have been linked with a few more additions before the window closes.
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