Cole Palmer's emergence as one of Europe's best young players is the result of desire, drive and confidence, according to former Manchester City and England goalkeeper David James. Palmer's first taste of senior football came as an 18-year-old when he played in a fourth-round League Cup clash in September 2020, as he looked to make the transition from promising youngster at the Etihad to a regular first-teamer in one of the planet's most star-packed sides.
Manchester City are interested in signing Arda Guler from Real Madrid, according to Fichajes. The report has claimed that Man City manager Pep Guardiola is personally keen on a deal for Guler, who has emerged as one of the best players for Madrid this season. Guler has been one of Madrid's best and most important players under manager Xabi Alonso this season.
Long before he arrived at Man City, Guardiola famously came through the ranks at Camp Nou, winning the Champions League as both a player and manager with the Blaugrana in 15 years over two spells at the club. The 54-year-old has seldom looked to Barcelona for new signings but that might be about to change with the blockbuster addition of Alejandro Balde in January.
"I missed nothing in my life because I never thought about it," Klopp said. "So during almost 25 years, I twice went to a wedding -- one of them was mine and the other one was two months ago. In 25 years, I have been four times at the cinema -- all in the last eight weeks. It's now nice to be able to do it.
And at this point, we have to acknowledge that Pep Guardiola is one of the principal reasons this kind of possession pornography exists in the first place: a serendipitous consequence of reinventing the game at exactly the moment we could start measuring the ways in which he was reinventing it, and exactly the moment we could beam it around the world in meme-sized fragments.
Huddersfield missed out on a League One play-off spot last season, finishing 10th and 14 points behind the top six. With Lee Grant now at the helm, the Terriers are targeting a stronger promotion push this time around. So far, Huddersfield have made a promising start - winning five, drawing one, and losing three of their opening nine matches to sit fifth in the table. However, their recent form has dipped, with only one win from the last four league games.
The world is blasted, unfamiliar. Smoke swirls amid the gloom. Foul odours belch from the sulphurous earth. The landscape echoes to howls and grunts and screams. A great light has gone out and all that remains is confusion and fear. Everywhere coaches and managers, hunched under their doubts, scuttle hither and thither, desperately seeking a path through the wilderness. From his very first season at Barcelona, Pep Guardiola's way of playing football has been dominant.
Pep Guardiola's approach has led to unprecedented possession dominance, prioritizing a strong midfield. His teams depend on mobility and creativity to maintain this control.
