🚨 Players you enjoy watching (outside of Barça)?
🎙️Lamine: “Neymar. I always enjoy watching Ney play, who is my IDOL… I’m going to say a different one, Doku.. and Cherki as well.” #fcblive 🔥
A couple of years ago during a lean time on and off the field, Phil Foden answered a knock on his door to find Guardiola standing there unannounced. The men hugged and went inside where just about everything apart from football was discussed for an hour.
This instinctive but deep emotional intelligence extends to club staff, too. Guardiola sends notes of support to the women’s team staff while in his office hangs a list of birthdays of all first-team employees. The rule is they bring the cake for celebration but a fuss is then made. Birthday wishes are beamed on screens around the CFA and a bottle of champagne may be presented.
At least two wider City staff members have been given extended compassionate leave for family reasons, at Guardiola’s request, while he took it upon himself to persuade club bosses all staff should be paid in full during the Covid pandemic, as many Premier League rivals leant into the Government’s furlough scheme. On another occasion Guardiola went to war with Omar Berrada over employee bonuses.
Guardiola walked into one tense meeting and told Berrada he was paying employees £10,000 each from his own bonus as a Premier League title win pot. In no uncertain terms, Berrada was urged by his manager to sort out the rest – and quickly. Staff in that exchange gawped in amazement. Berrada, in his defence, had rightly been worried about tax implications of gifts.
Source: "The truth is he will do anything for anybody on the [team] plane. There are those who leave the club and make sure they say they owe him everything."
This is an extract from Part One of @Jack_Gaughan's 'PEP AND MAN CITY, THE UNTOLD DECADE'. Read in full on @MailSport. ⤵️
https://t.co/80vsCHFLnH
John Stones: "What does Manchester City mean to me? It's been my home for the past 10 years, and it'll be my home for the rest of my life... Give me a sec..." 🥺💔
Villarreal's Georges Mikautadze on @rayan_cherki: "You love to see this kind of player play. Cherki is better than [Lamine] Yamal. Cherki is Cherki.
"He plays with both feet, Yamal doesn’t have that too much, even if he uses his right. Cherki is ambidextrous, has the vision, scores, can create goals, can take set pieces - he can do everything!" [via @canalplus/@GFFN]
📸 - BERNARDO SILVA WON THIS BATTLE AGAINST KAI HAVERTZ!
THIS MAN IS NOT REAL, THIS MAN IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PLAYERS IN MANCHESTER CITY HISTORY!
BERNARDO SILVA!
This is how the guy in your profile picture treated one of Enrique’s assistance’s who wanted to take a picture with the trophy btw. https://t.co/SK5LWL5UC1
🗣️ Bernardo Silva: “ if city were located a bit further south in europe, I would stay here until people kicked my ass out of the club”
i truly love this football club, i love the fans
My legend 🩵