On the afternoon of December 11, in the seventeenth round of the Premier League, Manchester City traveled south to London to challenge West Ham United away from home.
When the game reached the 30th minute, David Silva took a corner kick and Su Dong hit the header with a header in the penalty area, opening the scoring for Manchester City.
Just four minutes later, Di Maria's cross from the left and Toni Kroos' long shot from the front of the penalty area gave Manchester City another victory.
After changing sides in the second half, a through ball came from the front of Toni Kroos's penalty area. Su Dong crossed the left side of the penalty area and calmly pushed the ball with his left foot, further expanding the score to 3-0.
Then David Silva and Di Maria scored for Manchester City, helping the team take a 5-0 lead.
At the last minute of the game, West Ham United managed to pull it back and save face at home.
Manchester City finally defeated the Hammers 5-1 and scored three points again.
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Also in London, Chelsea drew 1-1 with Tottenham Hotspur in an away game. They suffered the embarrassment of five consecutive games without a win. Their league ranking also plummeted, and they were even about to be replaced by Tottenham Hotspur.
Manchester United defeated Arsenal 1-0 at their home court, scoring three points again and continuing to chase Manchester City.
Ferguson once again launched a psychological war after the game, saying that Manchester United was fully prepared.
"I believe that Manchester City will definitely lose points during the Christmas schedule and winter break."
Liverpool lost to Newcastle 1-3 in an away game, but still could not get over the shadow of defeat.
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A week later, in the eighteenth round of the Premier League, Manchester City faced Everton at home.
According to the wishes of Guardiola and the coaching staff, Buenaventura strengthened the team's training and rotated the game lineup. For the first time, Su Dong failed to enter the squad.
Originally, Manchester City was determined to win this game. After all, Everton's performance this season was not ideal, and Manchester City was playing at home. Guardiola was also full of confidence in the game, so he rotated Su Dong.
As a result, only four minutes into the game, the defense made a mistake and Cahill opened the scoring for Everton.
This made Manchester City a little anxious. In the 19th minute, Leighton Baines scored another victory for Everton.
This is embarrassing.
The England international, who was rumored to be involved with Manchester City, seemed to want to show his strength in front of Manchester City, and directly pushed Manchester City into a desperate situation.
Although Manchester City launched successive attacks afterwards, they were never able to score. It was not until the 82nd minute of the second half that Sanchez got a goal back for Manchester City, but this could no longer prevent Manchester City from losing at home.
In the end, Manchester City was upset by Everton 1-2 at home.
This is Manchester City's first defeat in the Premier League in the new season, and it is also their second defeat after being eliminated from the League Cup.
Head coach Guardiola publicly stated at the post-match press conference that he was willing to take responsibility for the defeat.
"I underestimated our opponents. Everton is not as fragile as it appears in the league rankings. Moyes' team showed great strength at our home court and gave them a very big threat.
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Guardiola said that the coaching staff did not do a good enough job in rotation.
Su Dong's absence had a huge impact on Manchester City's offense, which led to the home defeat.
At the same time, Guardiola also said that the team will introduce strong reinforcements during the winter break.
The media revealed that Manchester City's potential targets include Wolfsburg center Dzeko and Ajax forward Luis Suarez. The former has been famous for a long time, while the latter performed well in Ajax and received many goals.
team's attention.
If Dzeko fails to be brought in, Guardiola will sign Suarez from Ajax.
When Manchester City was upset by Everton, Manchester United defeated Chelsea 2-1 in an away game and successfully shortened the gap with Manchester City.
Ferguson said proudly after the game that he had already guessed that Manchester City would lose points.
"This is just the beginning!"
"As I said, the cold wave in the UK came very early this year and it was very cold!"
The implication of Ferguson's words is that Manchester City will continue to lose points.
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Manchester City did not receive too much blame for losing to Everton at home.
This is the first defeat of the new season. If this is to be blamed, then all other Premier League teams should commit suicide.
More importantly, Manchester City's leadership position still cannot be easily shaken.
In other words, Manchester City still has the capital to continue to commit suicide!
After losing to Everton, Manchester City's continued recruitment efforts finally saw results.
Begiristain personally went to Barcelona to negotiate and finally succeeded in signing Barcelona midfielder Thiago.
This player cost Manchester City a total of 15 million pounds, and he also joined Barcelona's youth team Bellerin.
Together, the two players became Barcelona's first signings during the winter break.
One of the important reasons why Thiago joined Manchester City is that he was not reused by Mourinho in Barcelona.
Everyone knows that Mourinho is not good at using this kind of technical midfielder.
The Barcelona management wanted to bring Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas back to Camp Nou, and even offered 50 million euros, plus an offer for Thiago, in an attempt to persuade Wenger to let him go.
This made Thiago's father feel ashamed. He felt that his son was also the core of the Spanish national youth team and should not be a source of transfer for other players. At this time, Guardiola extended an olive branch, so Thiago
Yago hit it off immediately.
The only thing left is to convince the Barcelona management to let him go. This is obviously not an easy task. After all, there is a natural opposition between Manchester City and Barcelona. Whether it was Guardiola or Mourinho who were originally the coaches of Barcelona.
The competition is still what Cruyff said now. Barcelona's orthodoxy lies with Manchester City. This has caused deep grievances between the two teams.
Everyone can see that today's Manchester City is actually replicating the success of Barcelona back then, from the management to the coaching staff to the players, and this is what Rosell does not want to see.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! But at the insistence of Thiago and his father, Barcelona finally chose to compromise.
Fifteen million pounds is a high price for a young player who cannot play many games in the first team. As for Bellerin, he can only play in the youth team.
It is worth mentioning that Thiago and Bellerin are both targets of Arsene Wenger. Thiago has also been favored by Ferguson of Manchester United. Now, both players have been intercepted by Manchester City.
What a nonsense, this made Wenger furious.
After Manchester City announced that it had reached an agreement with Barcelona to officially sign these two players after the transfer market opened on January 1, Wenger immediately accepted the media and stated that he would never sell Fabregas to Barcelona.
What a bully!
It was clearly agreed that Thiago would be used as a supplement, but I just wanted to raise the price again, but the result was good. You just sold him to my competitor. Are you still sincere?
In fact, Wenger has finally understood that Fabregas is not well-educated and will leave the team sooner or later.
Even though he is now wearing the captain's armband of Arsenal, he is always thinking about Barcelona. This feeling of being in the same bed with him makes Wenger feel like there is a Hulunbuir prairie above his head.
Originally, he could endure it for the transfer fee and Thiago, but now he has thrown even his carefully selected spare tires into the arms of his competitors. How can Wenger accept this emotionally?
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After signing Thiago and Bellerin, Manchester City technical director Begiristain did not return to Manchester from Barcelona, but flew directly to Belgium to conduct final negotiations with Belgian team Genk.
This deal has been negotiated for a long time, and Manchester City is even more enthusiastic. After receiving the news early, agent Mendes has been pulling the strings for Manchester City, and now he finally convinced Genk.
For 15 million euros, Manchester City successfully packaged two young players from Genk, De Bruyne and Courtois.
These two players have received strong attention from Premier League teams including Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool. Chelsea even arranges scouts to go to Belgium every week to spy on the two players' performance.
Manchester City relied on Mendes's relationship to get in first and package these two players first, but one of the conditions was that Manchester City had to loan these two players back to Genk.
This Belgian team has performed well this season and is currently recruiting new players, so one of the conditions for agreeing to a transfer to Manchester City is that the two players will continue to stay in Belgium for the second half of the season until the end of the season.
There is even a clause in the clause that if Genk feels it is necessary, they can negotiate with Manchester City to continue to rent De Bruyne for next season after the end of this season.
It's also in Manchester City's interests.
Currently, Blue Moon's midfielder is not short of players, but it is mainly short of goalkeepers.
Guardiola's evaluation of Courtois is pretty good. Although it is very different from the characteristics of Neuer, the type of goalkeeper he wants most, Courtois was born on the wing and has good footwork and passing skills.
The ball is not bad, I believe it can be used if it is sculpted.
The signing of two Belgian players was also considered by the Manchester Evening News as a wake-up call for Joe Hart and Given.
"Guardiola used this signing to remind Manchester City's two goalkeepers that they had better show a better state, otherwise, maybe next season, they will completely lose their main and second goalkeeper positions."
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First they signed Thiago and Bellerin, then De Bruyne and Courtois. Manchester City's continuous signings before the winter break were all talented young players. This also annoyed Manchester United and Chelsea.
Rival Arsenal.
These are all young talents they have been paying attention to for a long time, and now they are all recruited by Manchester City.
Wenger publicly called in the media for a review of Manchester City's finances.
The Frenchman said he believed Manchester City's way of doing business was a disruption to the virtuous cycle of professional football.
On the contrary, Chelsea is currently in the midst of a coaching crisis under head coach Carlo Ancelotti. The team has not been able to get out of the quagmire of six games without a win and has no time to deal with Manchester City.
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Four new players were signed in succession, and Manchester City also organized a Christmas party before Christmas.
This should be the first time Su Dong, as captain, has participated in such a large gathering organized by a club.
