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Naively stitched-up by the usual media sharks I suspect.
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‘I feel a lot more alive’: Kalvin Phillips on weight, West Ham and Bielsa
The midfielder on a ‘misunderstanding’ with Pep Guardiola and Gareth Southgate’s influence to stay in the Premier League
www.theguardian.com
It looks like this was a pooled interview so several journalists at once. It really depends in where you get your write up of it.
I am not sure City come out of it all that great regardless of whether you think he is good enough for the club or not.
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Didn't have the elite mentality. Instead of coming back from Qatar to gear up for the resumption of the season, he went on holiday to New York. Sorry mate, but we're paying you £150k-per-week, we expect you to be in excellent condition all the time. Phillips should count himself lucky that he picked up so many medals whilst contributing nothing. The generosity and goodwill extended by the fans would not have been extended so much had he played in a City side doing less well.
Pep made one comment about his weight to kick him up the arse, but he's crying about it and even saying it upset his mum. In his comments about Pep, he's actually proving Pep right - he's not cut out for our club. Pep has otherwise only said good things publicly about Phillips.
The other week, Pep publicly hung out Foden for giving away the penalty against Palace. Contrary to Phillips, Foden got his head down and showed some balls. Foden has showed elite mentality in weeks since Palace.
“I really can’t be bothered today . . . just the same thing. Go in, train, go home and not have anything to be excited for. It was stressful.”
“After the World Cup was probably the toughest, when Pep came out and said I was overweight. He was right to do so but there are different ways to go about it"
“Pep was frustrated I didn’t come back into training early but it was just a miscommunication between the people at City and myself.
“Pep wanted me to come in the day after we finished the tournament and be involved in friendlies and stuff. I never got that information because if he asked me to be there, I would have.
“It was just a misunderstanding, he was very frustrated with me coming back 1.5kg over my target weight.
“It took a big knock on my confidence and how I felt at City. My family were not happy about it, either. Especially Mum.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/25859062/kalvin-phillips-man-city-pep-guardiola-overweight-jibe/#
“After the World Cup was probably the toughest, when Pep came out and said I was overweight. He was right to do so but there are different ways to go about it"
“Pep was frustrated I didn’t come back into training early but it was just a miscommunication between the people at City and myself.
“Pep wanted me to come in the day after we finished the tournament and be involved in friendlies and stuff. I never got that information because if he asked me to be there, I would have.
“It was just a misunderstanding, he was very frustrated with me coming back 1.5kg over my target weight.
“It took a big knock on my confidence and how I felt at City. My family were not happy about it, either. Especially Mum.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/25859062/kalvin-phillips-man-city-pep-guardiola-overweight-jibe/#
The interview will do him no favours, he comes across as a total idiot and not an elite footballer in anyway, I also hope any of his fanboys on here can now stop the sympathy they have for him during his time with us, the guy is way off our level in every conceivable way.
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I really wanted him to succeed. I imagine he's one of the good guys in football, but, he has revealed that there is a limit to what he will do to succeed. He had the ability to move the ball quickly and be available for the pass, before he moved to us, but lost that mental speed before the ink was dry on the contract.
Maybe he froze and believed he didn't deserve to be with us or maybe he thought he'd made it and watching from the outside it looked easy and relaxed. Either way, his speed of movement and lack of ability to stay active or available after that first pass was non existent. It's s real shame and a concern for waistcoat. If he plays him, international opponents will smell blood and target him. Bournemouth did.
Maybe he froze and believed he didn't deserve to be with us or maybe he thought he'd made it and watching from the outside it looked easy and relaxed. Either way, his speed of movement and lack of ability to stay active or available after that first pass was non existent. It's s real shame and a concern for waistcoat. If he plays him, international opponents will smell blood and target him. Bournemouth did.
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Couldn’t agree more - his comments about Pep only prove Pep right, and he simply doesn’t have the mentality to play for us, nor the talent.
This time he’s saying that no one told him that Pep wanted him to return to training early after the World Cup, and that it was all a miscommunication.
Well I’m sorry mate but you shouldn’t have to be told, you should want to come back early, work hard and get into the team. Or at least you would do if you thought you were good enough to get into the side, which I suspect he never did.
At least he’s now got his transfer wish. Whether he ment to say those words, or if the press have stitched him up, Pep and City won’t have him back. It’s now up to his agent to find him another club, and for City to try and get as much money for him as possible, which won’t be easy considering his lack of game time and his lack of form.
1.5kg over weight. How does that happen to a professional footballer?