🚨🎙️Cristiano Ronaldo :
"When I watch Arsenal, I don't see them as rivals, because I was very close to joining them. That's why when they win, I celebrate with them." 🔙
Congratulations Arsenal on winning the Premier League 👏
🚨Roy Keane on Arsenal becoming Champions of England.
🗣️: “I would just like to start by saying: ‘I told you so.’ When Man City beat Arsenal at the Etihad a few weeks ago everyone wrote them off, but I stuck to my guns backed Arsenal to win the league, who is laughing now?”
“I just sensed that this City team was not the same City of yester-year. They obviously bought well in the summer but something didn’t just look quite right.”
“What more can I say. Congratulations to Arsenal, they deserve their crown, they’ve been the most consistent team over the course of the season and they’ve won it with a game to spare”
🚨 Pep Guardiola is leaving Manchester City. And before City fans start writing his obituary as the greatest manager of all time, let’s have a quick word.
19 trophies in 10 years at City. Impressive. Genuinely. Nobody is taking that away.
But let’s put some context around those numbers before the statues get commissioned.
Guardiola had the most expensively assembled squad in Premier League history at his disposal. Every single transfer window. Every single year. Limitless resources. A club willing to spend whatever it took, and a Financial Fair Play case hanging over them that somehow never seemed to slow anything down.
Need a full-back? £50 million.
Need a centre-back? £60 million.
Need a striker? £100 million.
Need depth? Buy another international.
Most managers are forced to solve problems. Pep simply replaced them.
Now compare that to Sir Alex Ferguson.
Sir Alex won 13 Premier League titles, 2 Champions Leagues and 5 FA Cups with a club he built from the ground up. He developed young players, rebuilt multiple generations and dominated English football for 27 years, not 10.
He did it through the Eric Cantona years, the Roy Keane years, the Cristiano Ronaldo years and the Ryan Giggs years. Different squads. Different eras. Same outcome.