Despite maintaining a winning record so far in the 2023/24 season, coach Pep Guardiola still raised an outstanding difficulty for Man City.
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Man City’s 3-1 comeback victory over Crvena Zvezda in the Champions League this morning (September 20) came at a pretty high price when midfielder Bernardo Silva was the latest star to get injured. According to coach Guardiola, the Portuguese player will have to sit out for a few weeks.
Previously, Man City had a series of injured key players including Kevin de Bruyne, Jack Grealish, Mateo Kovacic and John Stones. This is why the Green Man currently has a relatively thin force, and Pep believes that this is a serious problem for the Green Man in the near future.
“We are having difficulties, but we will not complain like ‘Oh, we have a lot of injuries’. With the players we have, we will try. As long as we have the mentality If it’s good, that’s great. We have five really important players injured and maintaining that for a long time will be very difficult,” the Spanish strategist confided.
Silva is the latest name to get injured
In addition to the above injuries, Man City has said goodbye to many players in the summer of 2023 including Riyad Mahrez, Cole Palmer, Aymeric Laporte, Ilkay Gundogan, Joao Cancelo, Tommy Doyle and James McAtee. Of these, the last 3 names were allowed to leave Etihad on loan, with Cancelo landing at Barca.
On the other hand, Man City spent 200 million pounds recruiting players in the summer of 2023, including midfielder Matheus Nunes, who made his first start for the club since arriving from Wolves for 53 million pounds on January 1. end of the transfer period.
“With salaries and transfer budgets, we cannot have 55 players. It would be chaos for the clubs. They would go bankrupt. Unfortunately, Kevin will have to sit out for a long time. John (Stones) Not playing for a long time. Maybe Kova will return. Jack can return in a week or 10 days, but first he needs to get back in shape,” Pep added.
From now until nearly mid-October, Man City will have 5 difficult matches, including a trip to Arsenal in the Premier League on October 8, and before that a trip to Germany to clash with RB Leipzig in the first leg. second match of the Champions League group stage.
