Guardiola jokes about Manchester City’s spending on signings | OneFootball

Coach Pep Guardiola stated this Tuesday that Manchester City was only the seventh club that spent the most in the English Championship over the last five years, responding to criticisms linking the team's success to high investments.

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“I am a bit sad and upset because, in terms of spending over the last five years, we are in seventh place in the Premier League. I want to be first! I don't understand why the club doesn't spend more money. This makes me a little more irritated with them,” Guardiola joked in a press conference.

The coach was responding to a journalist's question about a “consensus” that City “probably had the best transfer window” in England, with the arrival of Marc Guéhi and Antoine Semenyo.

In a decade leading the ‘Citizens’, Guardiola has won six English Championship titles (2018 and 2019, and from 2021 to 2024), two FA Cups, four English League Cups, as well as the Champions League and the UEFA Super Cup in 2023.

City was bought in 2008 by the wealthy Saudi investment fund Abu Dhabi United Group, which allowed the club to make significant investments in signing players in recent years.

“We won in the past because we invested a lot, so now six teams need to win the Premier League, the Champions League, and the FA Cup, because they invested more in the last five years,” Guardiola emphasized, stating that he was basing his comments on “facts” and not “opinions.”

“Good luck to the six teams that are ahead of us in spending over the last five years, let's go! I'm waiting,” he concluded.

Second in the Premier League after 24 rounds, Manchester City is still competing in the Champions League (round of 16), the FA Cup (4th round), and the League Cup semifinal, with the return match on Wednesday against Newcastle (won 2-0 in the first leg).

*With content from AFP

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