Media coverage 2018/19

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shemnel said:
also this thing about City and broken football is taking too much away from Guardiola.

this squad, most of them in Saturday's XI, have featured Gundogan, Zinchenko, Walker, Danilo, Mahrez, Otamendi and Delph, none of whom are exactly world class superstars but have been made to perform better by the man in charge in a system that elevated everyone's game
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It isn't a 'thing' unless you are part of the cartel
 
Dubai Blue said:
Unsurprisingly, Martin Samuel just says it as it is. There's no agenda with him; he can see through all this bollocks and simply says it as he sees it.

Given the reaction we've seen in the last couple of days, you'd have thought there had never been a "boring", one-sided FA Cup final before where the winner was virtually guaranteed before kick-off. There's been loads of them; the likes of Wilson and Delaney are just choosing to erase these from their memories.

They would also have you believe that we've all but destroyed any semblance of competition in the game. Yet it's only a week since we won the league by a single point, and only two weeks since that was facilitated by the narrowest of margins as we scraped past the league's 9th placed team courtesy of a 70th minute thunderbolt from a 33-year-old centre back who cost us relative peanuts over a decade ago. Just how short are their memories?

Sometimes good teams struggle in games; other times, they make their superiority show. This is nothing new; it's been happening since football first started. Saturday was just one of those days where everything clicked.

And had the likes of Tottenham and Liverpool not been so quick to toss this historic competition off, we could have been facing a much stiffer challenge in the final. If these teams don't care about it, don't then come to us complaining that we've destroyed our opponents 6-0.

We're not the first team to have dominated English football, and we won’t be the last. I can think of two, in particular, who were lauded for doing so. Money clearly has an influence, but it is just as obviously not the only thing that matters.

No one was complaining about our financial muscle when United won the league in 2013, when Chelsea won it in 2015 and 2017, or when Leicester won it in 2016. We had the same owner back then, the same financial might, but other teams comfortably outperformed us. United have spent something like £800m since Ferguson left and look where it's got them. Meanwhile, both they and Liverpool spend more on wages than City do.

The real difference between all these teams is Pep Guardiola – the greatest football coach/manager there has ever been. But he's not going to be around forever. And when he does leave, football's success cycle will likely move on again, just as it always has done.

In the meantime, why can't the nation's hacks just sit back and admire the positive impact this genius is having, not only on Manchester City but on English football as a whole.
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Great post and spot on.
 
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