If there is a coach who is happy that the 2024-25 season is over, it's Pep Guardiola. The Spaniard was not spared this year, between the disappointing results of his team and the numerous injuries that impacted his group. Despite this, he has always kept the confidence of his management, when others would have been fired after such results. Better still, last November, the former coach of FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich extended his contract with the Cityzens until June 2027. A beautiful brand of trust. Because the thinking heads of the Skyblues do not imagine their first team without Guardiola.
The president of City recognizes errors
A coach whom they intend to spoil by leading a big transfer window. This is the promise made by the president of Man City, Khaldoon Al Mubarak. Like every year, he gave a long interview to the club's official website in which he started by taking stock of this very trying season. “Finish where we are finished is far from the ambitions we had and far from our usual performances. But it does not matter. We learn a lot. We will never forget these many experiences and all the challenges we have faced, whether at personal or professional level, during all the last 17 years. The culmination of all this is an experience which, I believe, will serve us a lot in the future. ”
Then he recognized that City had made mistakes last year, not recruiting enough. Only Savinho had arrived. “This club has known, as always, a real renaissance. We have evolved, at least if I look at the last 16 or 17 years spent in this club, with so many different numbers, and we have done so, I think, in a structured manner over the years. With hindsight, last summer, we should probably have been more aggressive in certain necessary changes. We did not do it and it cost us dear this year. We had already started reconstruction of this team in January. We are very satisfied. We are very satisfied with these four players who arrived in January (Omar Marmoush, Abdukodir Khusanov, Vitor Reis and Nico Gonzalez). ”
He promises a big transfer window
He continues: “Normally, we like to work in summer and it is only in the case of an emergency, of particular need, that we invest in January. It has been our operating mode for at least seven or eight years. But in January, it was necessary to act. We will come back. This season is now behind us. Today is a new day. We are starting to work and prepare for next season. And besides, that's what we have been doing since January. We will learn from this season, the good and the less good, we will improve and progress. I can assure you that this club will do everything possible to come back to the level that we all know that we can reach and that we will reach. ”
This will go through a very strong transfer window. “This gives an idea of what awaits us this summer, because we will continue on this momentum, to meet the needs of the club. And I can tell you, it is that we have clearly identified that are the targets, at what positions, and we clearly have our first option, our second option. And we are going to focus on our work, and it will be very clear, very fast. Our goal is to be ready with the new team for the Club World Cup. ” Tijjani Reijnders (AC Milan), Rayan Cherki (OL) or Morgan Gibbs-White (Nottingham Forest) are highly appreciated by the English, who risk accelerating as soon as the transfer window is reserved for clubs that will participate in the club World Cup this summer.
