Always seemed a little suspicious that all of their poor form was down to just losing Rodri.
Not sure the shake up has produced players the calibre of what they had in the past. This change of keeper will improve them I feel but I don’t rate that backline, I just wonder if teams are more willing to have a go at them, maybe football is evolving and Man City haven’t evolved with it. Is Pep adaptable like Klopp was? Is that why he went for Ljinders. I guess we will see as the season progresses
We talk about Isak and Hugo but Trafford must feel rather downtrodden this morning.
There has been a notable drop in the quality of players they are reaching out for/ standard of their workings in the transfermarkt. All seems very last minute rather than part of a proper plan
This would rather be gutting for him. Had he stayed on at Burnley, there would be a case for him to make the England squad for the world cup even if he isn’t displacing Prickford as the #1.
I don’t think Tuchel will want to pick someone like Trafford who barely sees any game time in the domestic season now though.
Donnarumma IS bad with the ball at his feet though. He is the textbook example of the sort of player who loses out in a “my style is more important than the quality of player” philosophy that would see a manager force out a world class keeper because he doesnt allow them to play out from the back. See Hart’s exit from City and De Gea’s exit from United (admittedly both had experienced lapses in form that called their position into question as well).
Not the 130+ charges…but more related to sponsorship deals? How will this impact the 130+ charges?
The Premier League and Manchester City FC have reached a settlement in relation to the arbitration commenced by the club earlier this year concerning the Premier League’s Associated Party Transaction (APT) Rules, and as a result the parties have agreed to terminate the proceedings.
This settlement brings an end to the dispute between the parties regarding the APT Rules. As part of the settlement, Manchester City accepts that the current APT Rules are valid and binding.
It has been agreed that neither the Premier League nor the club will be making any further comment about the matter.
That’s actualluy quite positive. The general perspective was City launched this because if they won it would undermine the charges against them - “yeah we hid payments, but that was only because the rules in place were themselves illegal”. I think most people thought it was more of a headache to the prem, and maybe a way for City to divert the Prem’s resources away from the main case, but I think it seems pretty positive that City have had to concede here.
If there is any time that City have ‘settled’ with the PL, I question whether the PL have conceded in some other area.
Remember that this is the club that has basically threatened to raze the competition to the ground if they don’t get their way, and that they will continually throw thousands of lawyers at the situation until the PL’s charges go away, and now they “accept that the APT rules are legal and binding?”. It’s very un-City to agree a settlement.
Sounds like Gianluigi may want to have Dunna runna once he actually hears the ‘noise’. Did he think he was signing to play at rather than with Trafford?
"I’m really looking forward to discovering the environment of the stadium and I can’t wait to take to the pitch and hear the sounds of the stadium and hear the support.”
(Some) Credit to City though. One of the rare instances that their youth product gets to compete fairly with expensive and a more established talent. *Even though Trafford was bought back rather than going straight into the first team.
Just saw this. Wow. Is he so stupid or he thinks the world is that stupid to not know the difference? Fcking chequebook mananger and his stupid smirk trying to prove everything they do is legitimate.
