Ex-Sporting man mocked by Pep Guardiola: I don’t get why… | OneFootball

This Tuesday, at the traditional press conference previewing the second leg of the English League Cup semi-finals against Newcastle, Pep Guardiola, when challenged to evaluate the work carried out by the Cityzens’ director of football, Hugo Viana, ended up giving a response full of irony.

“He’s very good, just like Txiki [Begiristain] was before. I’m a little sad and annoyed, because, in net spend over the last five years, we’re seventh in the Premier League, and I want to be first,” the Catalan began, in statements reproduced by the British television channel Sky Sports.

“I don’t understand why the club doesn’t spend more money. I’m a bit grumpy with them. We won in the past because we spent a lot, but now, there are six teams that have to win the Premier League, the Champions League, and the FA Cup, because they’ve spent more over the last five years,” he continued.

“This is a fact, not an opinion. Good luck to the six teams that have spent more money in the last five years,” he concluded, referring to Manchester United (€793.48 million), Arsenal (€783.23 million), Chelsea (€767.32 million), Tottenham (€659.76 million), Newcastle (€499.09 million), and Liverpool (€494.63 million).

For the second consecutive year, Manchester City was the club that invested the most money in the winter transfer market worldwide, with €23 million paid to Crystal Palace for Marc Guéhi and €72 million paid to Bournemouth for Antoine Semenyo. And regarding these same figures, the work done by the former Sporting man – who already knows the date for the possible Clássico – cannot be ignored.

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