XXL budget for Guardiola
THE Daily Star informs us that the leaders of the Skyblues have planned to offer Pep Guardiola a big budget for the winter transfer window. City will have 200 million pounds at their disposal, the opportunity to position themselves on a number 6 to temporarily replace Rodri the Ballon D’Or. The tracks are always the same, Martin Zubimendi, Ederson and Bruno Guimaraes. Now, Manchester City will have to make the right choice. Meanwhile, Pep Guardiola continues to fight, he has no plans to give up even if City are going through the most delicate period since the Spaniard’s arrival. He remains on a series of 6 matches without a victory including 5 defeats in a row, that’s a lot, but the Catalan technician does not want to stop believing in it. However, the former Barça coach explains that if he has to leave the club or is pushed to do so, he will leave. Strong words especially for someone who has just extended his contract for two more seasons.
Barça in pain
Barça’s state of grace is over, the Catalans are affected as explained Sport. A new defeat in the league, this one hurts even more because it was at home against Las Palmas, the penultimate which spoiled Barça’s 125th anniversary. A real hangover specifies the Catalan daily, Hansi Flick will have to find the solution because with this new poor performance, Real Madrid could take the lead in La Liga. And yet just a few weeks ago, it was hard to imagine Barcelona cracking the league. The good news despite everything for Barça is the return to competition of Lamine Yamal. The Spanish nugget entered on the hour mark, nothing to report on the field, Flick will be able to rely on him in the meetings to come. Raphinha was not injured and fortunately for Barça. Sport talks about the exploits of the Brazilian, who scored again yesterday. That’s already 14 goals and 9 assists for the Barça captain who is the strong man in attack this season.
Doubt grips Paris
We saw a disoriented Paris. The Team make no mistake, PSG missed out again last night, 1-1 draw against FC Nantes and ever more concern given the offensive ineffectiveness. A week in reverse continues the daily life to describe the delicate period that Paris is going through. Even the return of Gonçalo Ramos to the starting XI changed nothing, explains The Parisiana decisive pass for the Portuguese and not much else. That’s a defeat on Bayern’s pitch, a draw at home against Nantes, and what’s more, things are tense internally. L’Team talks about the conflict between Luis Enrique and Ousmane Dembélé. Last night, the French international was on the bench, as a sort of punishment after his exclusion in Munich on Tuesday evening. Between this affair and the conflict that there was during the match at Arsenal, Ousmane Dembélé has clearly not improved his relationship with Luis Enrique. A person close to the locker room even explained that the Spanish coach would have lost his player. As a form of non-return which would punctuate these conflicts which follow one another. Yesterday, Dembélé only played 20 minutes, his face was closed and his match will not be remembered. The problem for PSG is that the 2018 world champion is not the only one to be annoyed by his situation. Presnel Kimpembe, who returned to the PSG group on Tuesday in the Champions League, is also starting to lose patience. Luis Enrique did not call him for last night’s meeting and clearly, Kimpembe does not understand. He received no explanation for his absence. Luis Enrique will quickly have to find a solution to resolve these conflicts internally.
