Premier League preview: Manchester City in Check - Kicke

Now that is doing nothing, what Pep Guardiola ever caused greater problems. Ronaldinho, Samuel Eto'o or Zlatan Ibrahimovic had to go to his time at the FC Barcelona, ​​on Mario Götze he did not want to really put in Munich after his world champion gate - even club icon Sergio Aguero seemed to have somehow been aimed at City at the end.

Also in the shoulder of higher transfer sums Guardiola is largely painless in its cadre planning. Alone in the defense of the Skyblues the Catalan already invested over 400 million euros, a year ago, Stabilizer Ruben Dias was for whose 68.

Fits GralealH into the system? - Kane would probably be more expensive

However, the 118 million euros serious acquisition of Jack Grealis, however, does not only burst the club's own transfer record, it is also an offensive player - and a game types that has been showing his football so far as Guardiola would rather sort out than shopping.

Then there would be Harry Kane, who may come and would certainly break the transfer record a second time. The center forces of the English national team. Guardiola can only rare with such center sterns.

Now you have to admit Kane for some time to interpret his position as a number nine too "wrong", which false like its potential new coach and could fit in its plan. Also, it is to confuse the 50-year-old, Grealis, who still played at Aston Villa Die Role, to incorporate a functional role as one of many.

Aguero and Bernardo Silva, who should probably also be delivered, so out, Kane and Greaseh. That would even be quantitative and manchester City, at least in theory, make even better. Unless a crucial Champions League game is pending and he has a whole season time, Genius Guardiola gets a rodemble also sorted. But did he ever do it with a solchen?

Sterling, Mahrez, Foden: Whom is the bank threatening?

When Grealh plays, what is then sterling, who has a heavy stood anyway, but a strong em behind? Does it meet Mahrez, who outstanded in the royal class? Or fashion? Does the initially injured Youngster moved to the midfield, which could mean a bank place for Gündogan, where the part-time clipper of the preseason is sitting alongside Rodri, Laporte, Zinchenko, Gabriel Jesus or the up-and-coming Ferran Torres?

This is Kayky, from January players from Manchester City. imago images / fotoarena

And what happens, please, if even Kane is pushing into the starting eleven? Incidentally, the Brazilian outer storm Kayky (18) comes from Fluminense the next promising attacker and Bernardo Silva is not yet handed over. This time it is many chefs for City ratios that could spoil the famous porridge.

The second team could be master

It will be a challenge for the Dompteur Guardiola to keep such a squad in a mood. From a selection that could also make two master teams, he has to make one who works week for week.

Is the biggest stumbling block for the defending champion in the end the own team? Are the most difficult games the training games against their own colleagues, as Guardiola's players once betrayed in Munich? No, the competition in the Premier League is too strong. Internal chaos may not allow City.

makes it click, attracts City

Maybe the glass is also half full, the star is the team, the coach, the system. In which suddenly several players take several roles almost perfect and fill out as from mid-December, as the Skyblues after a draw against West Broma had eight points behind, Guardiola made a lot of rolled and city at once over months each game won.

Also 2021/22, the league actually takes too long, as that a PEP Guardiola does not form a team again from its outstanding resources, which plays a bit better again when you could have imagined that. It does not mean champions, but Premier League.

Placement 2020/21: 1 .

Who is new? Jack Greaseh (Aston Villa, 118 million)