After yet another win in the Premier League, this time against a spirited Leicester City side, Manchester City are already in overdrive, and that’s ominous for the rest of the English top-flight.
However, their complacency on and off the pitch threatens to be their undoing.
Witness the way in which Pep Guardiola’s side took their foot off of the pedal against the Foxes.
Four-nil up and cruising going into half-time, the visitors to the Etihad Stadium should never have been allowed to get a foothold back in the match.
On another day, the 4-3 that Brendan Rodgers’s side eventually got things back to may well have ended with one of the most stunning comebacks of all time.
As it was, Leicester ran out of steam and City powered through the final minutes of the game to take all three points.
Off the pitch, allowing one of their most promising youngsters to leave could prove to be a disastrous piece of business.
Ferran Torres is just 21 years of age and already a regular for the Spanish national team. His projection makes him one of the most exciting young players at Man City, and yet Guardiola hasn’t seen fit to use him too much as yet.
Mundo Deportivo note that Torres will undertake a medical with Barcelona on Monday and be presented by the club on Tuesday.
It’s believed that Xavi has wanted the 21-year-old ever since taking over at the Catalan club, and he’s likely to be delighted with the acquisition.
City should never have considered allowing Torres to leave, and it’s a decision that could well come back to haunt them.
Whilst we’re sad to see Torres go, Pep is right – an unhappy footballer is not use to anyone. And as for “disastrous” – 150% profit in a year is “disastrous”? Uh? Nonsense.
And yeah we took the foot of the pedal yesterday. Still top. By 6 points. With a goal difference better than Liverpool’s thanks to 17 goals in 3 games.
Transfer fee will make buying Haaland no problem. Remember, the NET cost of Grealish was £40 million thanks to sales.
We’ve been top at Xmas in the Prem twice and won it both times. Liverpool have lost it four times after being top at Xmas in the Prem
Pep hasn’t seen fit to use him…. the man has had a broken bone and has been recovering for months. He doesn’t want to be in Manchester… do you think he would be fully committed and and his game not affected if he was refused permission to leave. Kane hasn’t been doing that will gas he?
He was playing until Spain played him when injured, which was how he got the metatarsal. Been in Barca under Cugat, and also, why would he want to le largely isolated in a hotel room in M’cr thanks to Covid. So why would Pep “see fit” to play a player with a metatarsal fracture (which take a LONG time to heal, as we use our feet all the time).
I’d love him to stay. I’d have loved Leroy to stay. But Leroy had to grow up, his attitude was poor, and he wanted away.
Similarly Bernardo – not playing and in rainy Manchester during peak Covid. Understand why he might want to leave – delighted he’s not.
We’ve got some great talent also emerging from the EDS, and we’ve also got the money to buy Haaland. Swings and roundabouts.
Author of this tripe knowing nothing, Torres is not a loss and will not be missed in the slightest, the fact he’s not longer playing for us and we are top of the table, not to mention having 3 goals scored against us and still win the match at a canter says enough about our squad, we don’t even have a recognised striker. You know nothing.
Quite!
How are City supposed to keep a player who has indicated a wish to return to his home country. What benefit would forcing him to stay have ? They’ve made a massive profit on the deals.
Yep a really dumb article I think he must have missed what Pep said about players who aren’t happy not being kept at Citeh against their wishes. He will generate a profit & he hasn’t really been missed. How can that be turned into such a negative article when City are you he best t am in the league even when he isn’t playing & the funds make it so much easier to buy a new striker?
Clickbait journalism.
Doubled thier money on a player that does not want to be at the club. No better than Cole Palmer,we have plenty of cover,in the positions Torres would have played.
Great bit of business.In Pep we trust.
Weakened by disastrous transfer business?
What a nonsense – don’t give up your day job sonny!
The money generated from ferran sale should be used to sign haaland .What a poor article . Please be a business journalist
What is disastrous about selling a bit part player!
Top of the league without his contribution in big games
We needed a striker and now we can sign halaand and vlahovic
Torres is home sick. We won’t keep a player imprisoned. Sane was the same. Off the pitch? Man…it’s hard to hear being 7 points clear
if city gey viahavic we will be unstopable
Who writes this shit? Perhaps He/She should apply to be the next City manager, as they obviously know more than Pep
You will regret it soon ! Pep is not good in transfers as he showed with Ibra giving Eto’o and 45m and regretting the same year, as he did for Sane to Bayern. You don’t let a player 21y to go at the same year that he had a hattrick vs Germany and a double vs Italy…
Yeah, Sane leaving really hurt us didn’t it. Pep sacked the egos at Barca. And then won everything. That really hurt him as well eh?
“Pep not good at transfers”.
Um. 8 domestic post in five years? More than half of all that he could have won? Klopp just ONE in six years? Think you got the wrong guy mate
Gawd.
What a crap piece of shoddy “journalism”? Total and complete rubbish from someone who shouldn’t be allowed access to the internet , get your facts right