Manchester City · Community Shield · Defender · #3 · Portugal · 29 yrs
Today’s fluff does not do Sudoku After Vinícius Júnior signed a shiny new deal at Real Madrid, Arsenal are having to look elsewhere for a new winger. Turkey’s Kenan Yildizm who plies his trade with Juventus, is of interest to Mikel Arteta and the Gunners hierarchy. One potential way of getting the deal done is to send Gabriel Martinelli in the opposite direction.It is all fun and games at Manchester City where they are trying to rebuild a midfield inside a week. Adam Wharton is supposedly on their wishlist but with a £100m price tag, the expense could be a little too much. City have reportedly put in a call to Selhurst Park but received a swift rebuffing in response. Considering the proximity of that Sainsbury’s to the Palace ground, any potential purchase of a midfielder would come with a lot of Nectar points. With Savinho on his way to Tottenham, City could replace him with Allan Elias, a left-footed right winger at Palmeiras – a team not keen on selling. Ruben Amorim is eager on a return to Manchester but only to take Rúben Dias to Milan. Continue reading...
For Enzo Maresca, a miserable first meaningful game in charge of Manchester City that began with Arsenal seizing the lead after 24 seconds ended with Mikel Arteta’s side lifting the Community Shield. Arsenal eviscerated City, Riccardo Calafiori’s smart early opener after Myles Lewis-Skelly’s brilliant pass seemingly leaving their opponents with irrecoverable damage. Kai Havertz doubled Arsenal’s lead on 28 minutes and Martin Ødegaard in effect sealed the win three minutes into the second half, taking great pleasure in fooling Gianluigi Donnarumma in the City goal before finishing. On this evidence, the post-Pep Guardiola era could be trickier than widely envisaged.Christos Tzolis shone on the left, playing the whole game in Cardiff. He was involved in all three goals, assisting two. No Arsenal player played more passes into the final third. It was Tzolis’s cross to switch play to Noni Madueke, one of 10 passes before Calafiori rippled the City net. Between Lewis-Skelly rolling the ball to Martin Ødegaard at kick-off and Calafiori peeling off Abdukodir Khusanov to finish, City had a single touch of the ball; Elliot Anderson intercepted Calafiori’s pass aimed at Ødegaard in the City 18-yard box. But then Madueke cushioned a header for Ben White, who tucked into midfield, and Lewis-Skelly rolled Phil Foden before releasing Calafiori goal-side of Rúben Dias with a sumptuous reverse ball. Continue reading...
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