A top match later, against another team recovering from the Champions League, Paris Saint-Germain, doubts surrounding Kevin De Bruyne’s ability to string together matches and especially to survive the intensity of a match of the European top have resurfaced.
Champions League: a high-fashion PSG tore apart a disjointed Manchester City
Replaced by Guardiola in the seventieth minute in a certain anonymity, the captain of the Citizens wonderfully symbolized the helplessness of his team in the face of the incessant waves of an overexcited PSG. Their coach also seemed resigned during and after the meeting. The Catalan had already hinted at this form of fatalism by admitting to having underestimated the need to renew the executives of his aging team.
Acceptance of an announced end of cycle
After anger, revolt and even self-mutilation, here comes resignation and acceptance of an end of the cycle announced but not anticipated by the person concerned. As if blinded by so many successes and strong moments experienced with the executives of his group, Guardiola believed for a moment in the immortality of his players.
-Kyle Walker, for his part, understood before anyone else the upcoming renewal and requested his exit voucher to try to further prolong his life as a footballer at the highest level. Because, this time, the management of the Sky Blues will no longer procrastinate and has already resumed its good old habits of ultra-spending.
More expensive than Openda, the most promising on the planet and adored by Will Still: who is Abdukodir Khusanov, the future teammate of De Bruyne and Doku?
The three transfers worth 150 million completed in a few days prove their determination to turn the page (while awaiting their conviction in the trial for non-compliance with financial fair play?). And in this new chapter, only two protagonists are certain of their future: Erling Haaland who has just re-signed until… 2034 and Pep Guardiola, the architect reappointed in the middle of a storm. With probably another project manager than KDB…
