Pep Guardiola cautioned people who don’t think one among his key Manchester City gamers is the exceptional inside the league must re-watch his performances towards Liverpool and Chelsea this season.
Despite his seventh-positioned end in the 2021 Ballon d’Or, many point to Mohamed Salah while naming the excellent participant inside the world right now. However, City boss Guardiola has an alternative view on that perception.
Instead, the Spaniard believes Portuguese playmaker Bernardo Silva is presently the excellent participant on these shores, not Salah.
Despite being closely linked with a flow away over the summer time, the 27-year-old has slotted directly lower back into Guardiola’s plans. While his goals tally of 5 is a far cry from that of Salah’s, his all-round displays have been indispensable to City’s stellar start to the campaign.
Speaking in his Friday press convention (thru the Manchester Evening News): Guardiola become requested if Bernardo is the pleasant inside the league.
Guardiola quipped: “Take a video in Anfield, in Stamford Bridge, inside the final sport. You will know it.”
Guardiola spoke in rather greater lengthy terms about fellow midfielder, Rodri.
The 25-yr-old become signed in 2019 as Fernadinho’s heir apparent inside the hub of midfield. Despite the veteran Brazilian ultimate at the books, Rodri’s 12 league begins this time period advise he has already assumed the mantle.
When requested what has changed inside the Spaniard’s game this season and if he’s now completely aware of Guardiola’s needs, Pep stated: “When you inquire from me the satisfactory complete-backs in my career, Dani Alves, Philipp Lahm, Kyle Walker. Fernandinho is Fernandinho, Rodri is Rodri.
“Fernandinho remains with us and has achieved for this club at the pitch, the human beings don’t recognise off the pitch that's first rate.
