After Josep Guardiola took over Manchester City in 2016, the club began to experience the most productive period in its more than a century of history.
The Spanish coach, who previously recorded high results at Barcelona and Bayern Munich, also led the “city” to great victories.
A year after taking over the team, Guardiola led Manchester City to the championship. Except for the one time that Liverpool won the English Premier League, Josep Guardiola’s team has not given the championship title to anyone since then.
In the process, Manchester City became the only team to win four consecutive English titles. Pep Guardiola has said that no team will be able to repeat this feat while they are still alive.
The 2024-2025 season brought unexpected challenges to Guardiola. The trusted squad failed to do anything in the first half of the championship. Both the club's management and Guardiola himself regretted that they had not paid attention to new transfers in the summer...
Finally, in the first month of 2025, the club began to correct their mistake. Four major transfers were made in a few days. Abdukadir Khusanov from Lens, Vitor Reis from Palmeiras, Umar Marmush from Eintracht Frankfurt and Nico Gonzalez from Porto were brought in.
Thus began a period of new changes and reforms at City. Three of these transfers have already paid off, and Abdukadir, Umar and Niko are becoming the main pillars of the team.
The club's management will continue its policy of rejuvenating the squad, bringing in new, fast and powerful players to replace the experienced stars who have lost their desire to win and are getting older.
To this end, eight of the main figures of the current squad have been instructed to find other teams. Club officials have formed a list of other players who can replace them and have begun work on their transfers.
Josep Guardiola also spoke about this issue after the match with Tottenham.
- If we qualify for the Champions League at the end of this season, it will be a great success. You will no longer see the old Manchester City. That team was very strong. Now we will return with a different team.
A young team will be formed, the attacking trio is its future. Rodri will still be back, but Nico Gonzalez and Abdukadir Khusanov are the future of the new team. You saw how the Uzbek player played today against Tottenham. Even Guardiola is still young.
Bernardo Silva, Ilkay Gundogan, Kevin de Bruyne and other experienced players are also important for us. However, the current youth and the new players who will be brought to the team in the summer should lead Manchester City forward in the near future. The former will be a matter of time, - said Josep Guardiola.
In addition, the 54-year-old specialist highly appreciated the potential of the new member of the team Abdukadir Khusanov.
- Khusanov is an extremely fast defender and a master of passing. I have seen many very fast players, and Abdukadir is one of them. Everyone liked him. A humble guy. I am sure that our fans will like him too. He has been playing really well in recent matches, - said the Spanish specialist.
Abduqadir Husanov, who joined "Manchester City" on January 20, celebrated his debut in three prestigious competitions - the Premier League, the English Cup and the European Champions League. So far, he has appeared in a total of five matches. In four of them, he played in the starting lineup. He joined the game from the reserve in the FA Cup and scored his first goal in this match. Follow “Zamin” news on “Telegram”
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