🚨🇸🇪 Zlatan Ibrahimović on Premier League clubs celebrating Manchester City’s 115 charges:
🗣️ Zlatan: “I don’t blame them for celebrating these charges. (laughs) We are talking about a club that has traumatized almost every other club in this league for years. Pep came to the Premier League hearing everyone say it’s the most difficult league in the world, then he came and farmed the league like it was a Division Two league.
“He exposed them. He dominated them for years. So if they can’t win against Manchester City on the pitch, I understand why they are celebrating what is happening off it.
“But now they talk as if these charges were the reason Manchester City dominated. Like that was the main tactic City came with onto the pitch. Forgetting the beautiful football they played, how they controlled games and how they actually won those trophies.
“You can celebrate the charges, you can talk about them, you can wait for the verdict. But don’t rewrite football history. Manchester City dominated on the pitch. That is why they won all those trophies.”
🚨 Jurgen Klopp on whether he misses his rivalry with Pep Guardiola after taking charge of Germany:
“I had my first proper sessions with Germany and afterwards I was sitting there thinking, ‘Okay… this is different.’
Then somebody asked me if there was anything I missed about club football.
Unfortunately, I thought of Pep. [laughs]
I spent years trying to get away from this man. You win 10 games, you look at the table and City have won 11. You get 97 points and somehow you’re 2nd. Before playing them you spend 3 days thinking about what Pep might change, then the game starts and he’s put a midfielder at left back for some reason.
It was exhausting.
But I miss it.
Because we believed in football differently. Pep wanted control. I wanted the game to become something nobody could control. He wanted 25 passes before hurting you. Sometimes I wanted three.
Neither of us changed for the other one. We just kept trying to prove our football could beat the other’s.
And I think that’s why those Liverpool-City games felt different. It wasn’t only two great teams. It was two completely different answers to the same question.
Now I’m with Germany and maybe one day Pep takes a national team.
🗣️ Reporter: “You actually want that?”
🗣️ Klopp: “Of course.
Give him Spain. Give him Brazil. Give him whoever he wants.
Then maybe we meet in a World Cup semi-final and spend another week pretending we’re enjoying ourselves. [laughs]
I think football deserves one more.
Pep once said he’d sleep better when I left Liverpool.
He’s had enough sleep now.”
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🚨 Roy Keane on Phil Foden’s Poor Performance Against Coventry:
I wonder what kind of relationship Foden has with Enzo Maresca that he keeps getting on the pitch.
Because I can’t remember the last time he got any real minutes when Pep Guardiola was in charge. Just look at what he was doing out there - even the simplest chances were hard for him.
The difference was clear when Ryan Cherki came on. Very clear. What position does Foden even play? He’s always missing in action.
I think that’s where Enzo Maresca and Manchester City have got it wrong - not having a proper replacement for that position.
And it’s costing the team when Cherki is not there. Haaland won’t see any goals to score, and Enzo Fernández or Elliot Anderson can’t do their jobs properly.
If I was the coach, I’m not even sure he would sit on the bench.
Tijjani Reijnders was completely misprofiled at Man City. He was never a Gundogan replacement. Gundogan was excellent in tight spaces, made intelligent off-ball movements and was a great box crasher while Tijjani is more of a ball carrier, attacking spaces and making runs behind the defence. Pep tried using him deeper against Wydad, Al Hilal and Aston Villa, but he wasn't good enough in that role, with City losing against Al Hilal and Aston Villa. Aside from being a liability off the ball, Tijjani also lost possession too often without enough reward for the risks he took, which clearly affected us and was one of the reasons Pep started benching him. He's not a bad player; he just didn't fit our system. He was never a Gundogan replacement, just a goalscoring midfielder who was completely misprofiled