🚨 Bernardo Silva on Manchester City being found guilty of financial breaches:
🗣️ Bernardo Silva: “I think people are looking at this from only one side.
“People will laugh at Manchester City. They will make jokes about the trophies, the titles, the money, everything.
“But let’s remember something.
“We still had to go onto that pitch and win those matches.
“We still had to train every day.
“We still had to play under pressure.
“We still had to score the goals, defend, fight and finish the job.
“You can talk about the club, the board and the decisions that were made above us, but as players, our responsibility was football.
“We didn’t walk onto the pitch thinking about finances.
“We walked onto the pitch thinking about winning.
“If the club is eventually punished because people above us broke the rules, then that is something for the club and the authorities to deal with.
“But don’t rewrite what happened on the pitch.
“I remember those dressing rooms.
“I remember the celebrations.
“I remember the teammates.
“I remember the nights when we were exhausted but still found a way to win.
“Those memories belong to us.
“You can change what is written beside a trophy.
“You can remove a medal.
“You can change a line in a history book.
“But you cannot walk into my head and tell me that those moments didn’t happen.
“I lived them.
“My teammates lived them.
“Our supporters lived them.
“And nobody can take that away.
“So if the final punishment is relegation, then let it happen.
“If titles are taken away, then we deal with that too.
“I’m not going to spend my life arguing about trophies.
“I’m grateful for everything I achieved at Manchester City.
“I came here with dreams, and I was lucky enough to live many of them.
“And honestly, maybe the timing of my departure will make people look at me differently.
“But I left knowing I had given everything I had to the shirt.
Whatever happens to the trophies, nobody can relegate the memories I made here.”
🚨🇸🇪 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.”
Manchester United spent £1.6 billion on transfers since 2016 and won zero league titles and now they are begging for Manchester city titles, peak shamelessness.
Now we know our enemies are the clubs which didn't succeed thier campaign. Not even the Association. They know themselves.... waiting to be given trophies on the table. I'm with Man City in thick and thin, for better or worse. Once a Cityzen always CITYzen👊🏾