Pep Guardiola insisted last month that Real Madrid were not his biggest rivals during his time at Manchester City, instead giving that particular honor to Liverpool. He did at least clarify that he meant Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool, which is just as well after Arne Slot’s Reds failed to cause Guardiola any stress while he watched … Read more
Hours after their side’s Carabao Cup final victory over Arsenal, bleary-eyed Manchester City fans piled onto the Avanti West Coast train back from London Euston to Manchester – and there was one name on their lips. But it wasn’t homegrown match-winner Nico O’Reilly. “How good is [Abdukodir] Khusanov?!” piped up one. “He is an absolute … Read more
Manchester City hoped, and may even have expected that a midfielder called Nico would transform their fortunes during the second half of last season. The man that has become key to Pep Guardiola’s side’s mid-season surge and made them contenders to pull off the quadruple is not, however, the gangly Nico Gonzalez, who was recruited … Read more