Manchester City is the epitome of modern day English football, a club with little history and a big bank balance. All that cash, and the expectations that come with it, have become a massive problem, as City feels it should be winning the Champions League but continues to sign players who struggle to compete at that level. In the next 453 words I’m going to explain how I will try to turn us into Champions League contenders.
Where Do I Start?
City needs a clear-out. It’s obvious that there are too many players being paid a lot of money and delivering poor results. The problem is that everybody knows we have money so we won’t be getting any bargains.
Out: Raheem Sterling, Nolito and Nicolas Otamendi.
Even when I was just an ordinary fan rather than the club’s manager, whenever I saw any of those three names in the starting line-up I immediately assumed that the opposition was going to win.
Sterling cost the club £50m and has since proven that his one season of brilliance at Liverpool under Brendan Rodgers was a fluke. That was the season when the excellence of Luis Suarez made other Liverpool players like Daniel Sturridge over-perform and look better than they actually were.
Sterling’s value peaked due to that one good season and since his arrival in Manchester he has failed to regain that level. That is why he should be sold. Nolito is on the departure list for a very simple reason – he doesn’t do anything.
The Spanish forward tends to jog around, make a couple of challenges and put one shot wide per game, which for some bizarre reason makes him a good player. Not at my club. He’ll be joining Sterling and Otamendi, who defends like he is towing a 40-stone lorry behind him.
The Argentine centre-back throws himself into tackles on the half-way line, gets turned by players several times per game and often leaves John Stones looking like the guilty one. He’s got to go.
Unfortunately Pep Guardiola has gone a little crazy signing every player in sight, leaving me with a bit of a clean-up job. Oddly enough, Manchester City hasn’t signed any defenders yet. My first transfer target is Kyle Walker.
Despite having some issues at Spurs he could be the perfect full-back to allow the team to play more of a free-flowing game. My other signing would be left-back Benjamin Mendy, who plays in a very similar style to Walker. With those two in full-back positions, our back line will look more threatening on counter attacks and will also have more stability when we’re defending.
What would the starting XI look like?
City has a lot of players in similar positions so I would play a 4-5-1 with new signing Ederson in goal and Mendy and Walker either side of Stones and Kompany. My midfield five would feature Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, David Silva, Leroy Sane and Ilkay Gundogan. Our new look back four can do the job for us defensively, allowing us to play more confidently going forward with our one striker being Sergio Aguero.
Where would we finish?
Manchester City are Premier League Champions and Champions League semi-finalists.
by Nubaid Haroon
YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCtMg-fWm7awR41vM1GhVOkA Twitter: twitter.com/rambofyi
The post Football: Here’s How Manchester City Wins the Premier League appeared first on Felix Magazine.
No comments:
Post a Comment