Reigning Premier League champion for the nth time in a row. This was the start of the 2024/25 season. Guardiola couldn’t remember any real setbacks as City manager, so when the club management made offers of more big signings, Pep turned it down.
6th place in the Premier League after 20 games. Several incomprehensible losses in the Champions League in the group stage. This is the status of Guardiola and City, where a spate of injuries to key players has caused City’s engine to fail. Guardiola says he was the one who put on the brakes in the summer transfer window. Savinho was brought in from Troyes, Ilkay Gündogan was brought back on a free transfer, beyond that it was completely silent.
-In the summer, the club thought about it and I said that I did not want any more new players. I wanted to depend on my players and I thought I could do it again,” Guardiola said.
“But after all the injuries – wow – maybe we should have done it,” the City manager said.
This will be rectified in the winter transfer window. There is an agreement to sign Brazilian talent Vitor Reis, Abdukodir Khusanov from Lens and Eintracht’s top scorer Omar Marmoush is well on his way to the Etihad.
