Best Squad, Best Manager & Biggest Budget: Man City's journey to winning another EPL title | ESPN FC
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- Best Squad, Best Manager & Biggest Budget: Man City's journey to winning another EPL title | ESPN FC
Gab Marcotti, Kieran Gibbs, Mario Melchiot and Craig Burley join Dan Thomas on ESPN FC to discuss Manchester City winning the Premier League for a fourth consecutive season.
0:00 Man City does it again
5:49 Pep Guardiola at the helm
8:29 Guardiola's comments about his future
11:32 Rodri or Foden?
15:00 Phil Foden's skills
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The disappointment in CRAIG'S the hypocrite face 😆🤣
The hate for City is Unreal. He is a hired gun
They choped Pep's words. He didnt say he was closer to leaving than staying. He said he was closer to leaving than staying 10 more years.
*7 More years
Which applies to 99% of managers
rodri had the consistency, foden had the big moments
Facts. Rodri also turns up in big moments tho
Perfect comment 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
You only watched the second-half of City's season.
Rodri is the best premier league player this season. Forget the English bias
Goal scores always get the praise
Different positions. Both very important
I think it’s attacker bias, like it always is…
Yes, by far. And every statistic backs it up aswell. Does he need to score 50 goals as a CDM to win an award? For 90% of the season he was in one of the best CDM forms of all time.
Attacker bias. Similar to Cricket where batsmen always get bigger accolades than bowlers.
Pep plays chess. I love Man City and Chess.
Really disappointed in Craig. Ever since Arsenal lost to Villa he has become so bitter about City. Surprised me he went the lazy pundit route. When Craig arrived at Chelsea City had already won twice as many leagues as them and 4 times as many FA Cups.
Manu, Chelsea and now Arsenal killed that money argument
Well liverpool managed to win 1 from City's winning streak with half the budget..
The point is pep would have never gone to city before oil money
@@RodneyWllee Red media bollocks, Klopp`s net spend at lpool was £433m while Pep`s is £478m. For that extra half a Nunez fee the difference between trophy wins is a chasm.
In the last five years utd, chelsea and arsenal have spent more than City which makes the money argument redundant.
@@wamnichowhile would hé when hé started his manager Career straight away by making History with Barcelona making them thé Greatest football club side ever winning it all since his first Season with them
@@zakariadjouzi660 my point was hypothetical, let’s assume man city is currently a mid table club like west ham with no oil money, do you really think pep would join them
Six out seven, its a problem not for City but, for the rest.
▪︎City rivals - outspend City
▪︎City rivals - we can't compete
▪︎Media/Establishment - City have biggest budget?😂
@@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings do you think pep would have joined city before oil money 😂
@@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings Don't think comprehension is a strength of yours. City have 115 charges related to breaches of FFP rules, everyone has limits to what they can spend but City have gone beyond their limits. It's not about the dollar amounts spent. If Newcastle were allowed to spend whatever they wanted they could buy out the league 1000x over, other teams wouldn't have to make hard choices, City wouldn't be as dominant without this competitive advantage which was ill gotten.
The biggest budget? That's lazy reporting. Check the net spent for all the top EPL clubs for the last four years and the wage budgets.
Ignorant comment.
If they are talking in terms of money in a single club then Newcastle has bigger budget than City
Ahh you have to dig a bit deeper than that- 🤪
More than four years. It’s just scream fans making excuses
He said "probably"
On another note..this season should put the whole "saka is better than foden" debate to bed cause thats obviously absolute rubish
no one said that lol.. wait, did they?!
Yeah it was embarrassing. Foden was always the better player. Saka is a great player but foden is world class and a generational talent
They both good players and friends both good their clubs. Both doing much better in life than you ever will in a 1000 lifetimes.
@@bluemoon1716ok boss. Whatever you say we believe🫡
Keep Shadowboxing.
Arsenal fans cant wait for Pep to leave, thinking they'll dominate as if City will appoint David Moyes😂
Kompany has proven he can come and do a decent job.
Gvadiol, Lewis, Bobb, Foden, Doku, Alvarez & Halaand. City is ready for the next 10years to dominate.
Kompany😂😂
It don't matter if pep stays or not , but what I do know is that 115 will stay .
They just get a manager better than the EPLs best, not kompany
@@leroy9511your desperation is hilarious. Those charges will be thrown out just like CAS did
Just like on FC24 without the emojis🥹
They were outspent by Chelsea and United pretty sure
That's going by the 'official figures', not the 'actual figures'. In Manchester City's case, there's a 'strong possibility' that the latter of those two figures will be a lot higher than the first.
man city never spent 1 billion in a year
@@jaysmith2858and City won the league by both “official” points and “actual” points :)
@@jaysmith2858were talking transfers. Not your tinfoil hat theories😂
@@junioradult6219 Ahh right. So Man City haven't already previously been found to be up to no good and punished by UEFA, aren't currently facing 116 charges against them, and aren't spending and supposedly making hundreds of millions of pounds of revenue despite having a smaller fanbase than clubs such as Tottenham and Newcastle?
Keep posting the laughing emojis. No matter how many those like you post, it wont magic away all the shenanigans everybody knows that Man City have been up to since they became a mega rich oil state's plaything.
Rodri eased all the nerves
City could not win a single game without Rodri but the English kid won the award and I am sure we all know who the most important player for city is.
They’re both very important to the side
So sad that real life football is a team game and never has one player won their team the league. It’s impossible but very possible on FC24.
Put the controller down. Tidy your room. Ask mum is it ok to go out for walk or something.
True but a team wins with Goals and assists which Foden does , and CDM & CB hardly get that kind of recognition.
Foden was exceptional this season.. came up with big goals.. so shut up
Stop it this season foden was unplayable.
ARE YOU SURE BIGGEST BUDGET!!!!!!! BE TRUTHFUL IN YOUR REPORTING.
They dont have the biggest squad, they havent spent the most.
Is citys bench really that much better? Oscar bob?? Rico lewis? Ake? Kovacic? Isnit really better than arsenals bench? Its just pettiness and bias
lol. always mentioning the budget like other clubs aren’t spending. united, chelsea, and arsenal all have spent more. stop it. your tears taste like wine
Pep looks like he’s capable of staying for 20 years & surpassing AF’s EPL & UCL hauls, along with a host of other records, relegating MU to the position of being the “noisy neighbours” by the time he’s done. In other words, it seems like he’s set on knocking MU off their perch.
Pep already has surpassed SAF in UCL legacy
@@SonuSharma-xx2hj I meant with city.
That'll never happen as long as the 115 exists.
@@CoconutJewce yeah it’s looking like fat hope that one isn’t it. By the time they get down to actually trying the case, city would’ve probably accumulated like 30 epls or something 🙄
@@CoconutJewceCoconuthead don't you get tired of sounding like a broken record?
Manchester City best team in the world 🌎..
Real Madrid 15
115 reasons why they are best team
HALA MADRID ❤️
If that's the best team in the world, then football is in a really bad place right now.
U r not being factual.
Arsenal fans must love tv. Always waiting for next season
Barzzzz
Just like Mancheater leave cheating huh
Some fans must love everything Arsenal because they just can’t stop mentioning Arsenal in everything they do. Why is that🥹
Arsenal living in your head rent free? 😂
@@theone4808Hi Bandwagoner.
I can smell the butthurt in the title. Like all leagues dont have a dominant team for years. Bayern. Psg. Dont tell me real madrid dont have any corruption thats just laughable 😂
You should do some research before publicly posting stuff. Real Madrid does not have an owner and cannot profit. That means that they can only spend what they earn, and they can only spend on club related expenses. By definition they cannot break FFP rules.
Real Madrid is owned by socios who pay a yearly membership. They don’t have exaggerated sponsorship deals and they don’t have 115 charges. Only one club in La Liga is currently accused of cheating and bribing officials, FC Barcelona.
Real Madrid is the most pathetic corrupt club lol, just buying uefa refs and pulling out fluke results again and again
Yeah Real have been backed by royalty. Literally the most corrupt group of people
@@filipcar96 We all know the history of Real and how this club was built. The difference is that we don't choose to be ignorant or subjective. Also, where was FFP when Abramovic first came to Chelsea?
I always skip it when this Craig guy speaks tbh.
He is a walloper 😂😂😂talks rubbish
Clubs didn't liked the competition so introduced FFP even though they were breaking transfer records and dominating the game. Now they fed their fans the narrative that city is bad and its all money 🤣🤣🤣🤡 TF they were doing before with a headstart of 100 years and all that money? Now they can't compete 🤣🤣 How gullible their fans are. Go after your billionaire owner to spend and spend wisely and compete rather than cutting the legs of the competition
this comment is too good ngl..
Preach on brother. Preach on👍🏼
Yeah big clubs don't want small clubs to become big. Very Similar to how Rich want to maintain status quo and they lobby governments to create rules to keep the poor in line. Irony is most of those big clubs' fans themselves are victim of this method of maintaining status quo(outside football).
@@rishabhmdh7985 rubbish
Yes but explain this to me, how does a team cheat that much and then go on to bottle the Champions League. What a waste....
11:44 Burley don't hide his dislike of City
Mediocre pundit and player
Wheres Stevie when we need him?
So u expected all the budgets to be the same
Just be patient when Pep leave everything will be back to normal
Na any decent coach can go in there and pull another 3 peat. the talent gap is just to great especially with their depth..
Normal? City won before pep came. Too bad for you that the foundation has already been set. City aren't going anywhere
Normal as in winning every other year (as they did with Mancini and Pellegrini) instead of every year? Perhaps, but you also need to factor in that the club as a whole is in a lot better position than when Pep arrived. Especially the academy seems to both be very profitable (they sell on homegrown players to boost their spending power, like Cole Palmer) and provide talent good enough to break into the first team (Foden, Rico Lewis, Bobb), something that won't just collapse when Pep moves on.
Normal?
115 charges is nothing it’s bs I’m fed up of hearing it I thought it’s innocent until PROVEN guilty
Yes completely innocent
Close your eyes to corruption and you’re no better than they are.
Do you think oj is innocent?
@@voidoflife7058 That’s a false equivalency and unequivocally shows just how little you actually know about the charges and legal proceedings.
Not only that, but all the simpletons out there think the City case is the same as the Everton and NF case, it’s just that City have more charges. Utter stupidity is mind-blowing and you’d think programs like ESPN FC would take a few min to discuss and explain the major differences, and yet they stand idly by being complicit in the perpetuation of a false narrative
Foden is being compared to Wilshere.....this must be a joke!
Foden is the best English player right now.
lol
Calm down you are beginning to cause a flood in my area with all those tears
Do ppl know that the charges are before guardiola?!!
Did Pep create the best squad or did pep recruit the best squad?
Good question...
City city Best team in the world 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🏆🏆🏆🏆😂
I just realised that Coventry City and Lazio has the same light blue colour as the Man City kit. Wow!
Just stop
@@jakerichards665 Yep .... Argentina too!
@@barryh.4220 is something wrong with you
Eufourla 0:13 is wild 😂
If "City have the best team", why would the departure of Pep result in City not being better than other teams? Wouldn't the best team still win?
Exactly. if Money can buy titles, why wouldn't they continue to buy more epl titles even after pep. The contradiction within their own arguments is mind boggling.
Here we go again with the laziest most intellectually dishonest analysis one can do: results based analysis. Let’s not talk about titles being decided on the final day or any type of context whatsoever. Nope. Results only analysis please 🙄
Where was the framer league outcry during MUs dominance in the PL? They won 7 of the first 9 PLs and during that time, the did a treble and a 3 peat and winning many of them by 10+ points. Or when MU did another 2 3-peats closing out the first 20yrs of the PL? Nope. Nothing to see here. SMH
As Man City has no closest opponent in EPL or Bundesliga, No matter how big Man city squad gets, they still have to worry about a club called Real Madrid. This is why club like Real Madrid is a blessing for football.
Not having Rodri in the team of the year is criminal
four-gone conclusions are SO entertaining. Every laughs at the Premier League.
Man City are comfortably the best team since well..Pep's Barcelona. They dominate everyone and everything, world class performances week in -week out, with barely any sense of fatigue. Filled with footballers with Big brain football IQ. And with a minimal injury record. Even in their "off season" (Like this one), they win a major trophy
Foden and Rodri were the beating heart and soul of this city team for the whole season and I hope Foden after some years exports his talents to Spain as well.
These are just people member that
For last 3-4 seasons when city start struggling, Pep changes his tactics and bring a player from the bench and impose his new tactics by that player while scarifying another key player. It was Aguero, Mahrez before and this season he was Haaland.
Bitter Burley getting his digs in at the beginning, the budget comment is particualrly idiotic when you look at spending over the last five years. Especially net spend.
Btw,Pep said he would leave before and didn't. About 5 years ago he said he'd be gone after 3 more years,which the media seem to have completely overlooked
115 charges lmao, No city achievement matters until they are punished for it 😂
Or not punished, right? 😭😭
This is so true
Pep needs to win another one or two Champions League Finals for his Man. City to really reach the heights. One's not enough......
Foden has the best first touch in the game today. All his first touch before he shoots looks like a movie because he controls the ball into the space je can shoot in one movement. He's incredibly.
Hey don’t forget those blasters on Foden’s feet,he generates some power for a small guy..
As a city fan,the panel is too bias towards city.Please, share budget for the last two seasons of the following clubs, Chelsea, Asernal M/united & city.
City has excellent management team, remember Asernal & M/united pouching technical personnel from city.
There is no such thing as bias when there is 115 charges involved.
I like how pep catches those who take their foot off the gas really quickly. Grealish perfect example, he was benched due to injury but also i believe losing that intensity. And if he doesnt get back to it, he will be sold
Grealish's home was attacked by armed robbers, and that had a massive effect on him.
Pep is a great manager. But the idea of a defender coming into midfield came from his assistant at Bayern Munich. He said it many times in his press conferences. Give credit where credit is due
On the Foden point, I think he’s always been a key player for several years now, he was a key part of the team after Aguero left when city won the title with no striker and DeBruyne was out of of form in the year of Gundogol!!!! He has always been one of the main starters, many times at left wing, I think this year he too his game to another level, he’s more than key, he’s world class because he has to play central , he got 27 goals in 52 games, he’s a better player than debruyne in the position overall at this point, he’s showing the potential of the best players in the world , players that are decisive no matter what position you say they are or there height or weight , Foden has the touch to combine with the strikers instinct, he’s a goal getter, example de Bruyne has a smiliar skill set, plays in the half space with great touch and great striking ability, but de Bruyne makes runs to pass, to receive it to cross, not so much runs of a striker, Foden is a better dribbler but that has nothing to do with the qualities of goals scoring, Foden simply has the mind to score score, like mos Salah is a winger but makes better runs than most striker in the league because that’s where his creativity and instinct lies, de Bruyne has the eye for the pass, but now that he’s is 32-33 and his high motor is reflected in his injury toll, pep should build around Phil, because I think he is capable of being a balón dor talent, I think he can get 60 goals contributions in a season
Rodri is world class best in his position. I support man u but respect a amazing player
With Klopp not present next season,City can now win epl with big points margin...and seal it early just like PSG&Real Madrid...thats motivation for Pep
Wow this dude lives under a rock in merseyside. Dude, there is a team called Arsenal which was second last two years. Liverpool didn't even qualify for CL one of those years.
@@rishabhmdh7985 Fair enough my dude,Arsenal did well but did not win anything yet recently.Liverpool did with UCL,EPL,FA Cup&Carabao cup...that's why my stance on who was the bigger threat
@@johannesgrobler853 True but your comment was specific to epl and that is how i read it. Peace out and let us hope to have entertaining football in coming years.
Hopefully but no cheating please.
If only football worked like that eh??
Klopp may well have left but don't rule out Arne Slot settling for second best, or Arteta, or whoever takes over the reigns at Chelsea.....
Best team in the world man city
Real Madrid 15
@@PharmacyAvelaliga super farmers league😂😂😂😂
@@KLHK1981nice try desperate oil loser
Helps to break the rules to be the best?
Pep took over a succesful Barcelona side and they won the treble after he left. He took over a bayern team that won the treble, and he didnt. He took over a man city side which had already gone through two teams and managers and won the league and bought another 2 squads and eventually after buying the most prolific striker in the world won the treble, finally. Hes a great coach but not the greatest manager.
True. Foden takes the most improved or outstanding young player. Rodri is City, and stats testify
Lol craig praying for city to leave 😂😂😂😂mans loving it at city😂
As much as I hate how weird Craigs obsession with "ffp" rule breaking by city years ago (which again, is a dumb rule that only helps the big clubs) has been, I still do like him as a pundit.
City will do a 5peat. Pin this comment.😊
pep...just win another ucl....win 4 cups in a year
the only channel who doesnt hate city and the one I can finish without feeling annoyed.
4 titles wow! And only 115 FFP charges- how good does it get! And it looks like FFP is actually kicking in- with Arsenal just off the mark by 2 points and no FFP issues knocking on their door!🤪Goof times ahead for teams in the PL
Craig Burley can talk sense sometimes but has no idea about transfers. Someone should tell him to check out the transfer spending league over the last 5 years.
Man city is just an advanced version of bayer leverkusen. It all comes down to system of play and hard work with these kind of teams. There really is no need to over hype their players and compare them to legends of the past. I wonder how many of these great players have same impact playing for country.
City saving the prem without them prem isn’t even considered in the champion league
It's called city league not English league 🏆🏆🏆🏆💙💯💪🧢
Biggest budget - bro Chelsea and United have spent more and Arsenal have spent 900 million since Pep arrived.
I don’t know it’s me or anyone else notice that Burley always complain because he couldn’t get the salary players getting now, he couldn’t achieve what some has achieved doing minimal effort, and high living current players are living 😂😂😂 He is just jealous of these players 😂😂😂
The way city assaulted arsenal’s title hopes. Somebody needs to make it 116 charges.
Why do guys try to push a narrative that pep should go?
Why do u like mediocrity and nt greatness?
The charge won't go away - when you can't even DESCRIBE what they are or WHEN they occurred. A team featuring $0 Foden, $0 GK, $14M CB...they are playing IRS with City's accounting from 2008-2011 before Pep even arrived. THIS team cost less that other teams and Won 4 of their 7 trophies on the final day. THAT is mentally winning, not buying the league. NONE of you had issues with Madrid buying the FIFA World Cup best XI. City have spent less than 3 teams in the EPL, but THOSE teams were allowed to spend more money than City but City are the bad guys. Ok....
First sensible comment I’m seeing. Cheers to you mate. These people are clowns. They should go check how much the other “Big 6” clubs have spent as compared to city over the past 10 years. How is it city’s fault that they invest wisely? We don’t buy on hype but on player profile that’s why all the players that come, except one or two, fit the system. That’s a recipe for success.
The only issue I would say with this line of thinking is it discounts the "knock on effect" that those pre-Pep years caused. City almost certainly cheated in the early years and cooked the books to build them up to the point where they are now. You are correct that they are probably clean at this point, and have been for years. I would guess they have been clean for all of Pep's tenure. Their net spend is right in line with what a club of their current stature should be.The issue is they shouldn't be at this level in the first place. Same sort of goes for Chelsea to an extent.
I doubt they praising him like this in england.
This is how Manu you were in their prime Fergie time having the best coach , biggest budget to buy the best players.😂
They sell for good money every year thats the big difference between them and say liv. Other then graelish who have they spent big on. Halland was like 69 mil
Nagelsmann might do a decent job at city
Of course they have biggest budget. Thats how ffp works. You win lots you make more money so you spend more.
That’s not how it works
First of they started their spending spree back in 2008, waaaay before they won anything, 2nd of all it doesnt matter how much you win but rather how much you make, the more you earn the bigger the budget.
@filipcar9 maybe early on but have you seen there player sells vs buys past 6 years. They are good at selling players for a good price and bringing in younger talent
@@junioradult6219 dude the allegations are regarding their "creative accounting" from 2008 to 2019, it doesn't matter what they did after that.
@@filipcar96 FFP didn't exist then.
Best squad 😂😂, lost Gundo mahrez in summer couldn't replace them, Kevin was out for 60% of time, stones 80% but still won
Are u dumb ? That just proves the point that they have best squad if they can lose mahrez and kdb being out and still win
4 times in a row is a problem for the league and its not about pep staying or leaving. its about FA not doing their job properly and taking action against city.
So many players left and they still won. Just goes to show how they procure talent over there. They sold a ton of talent and turned it over to better talent it’s crazy. Barca got gundy and stink. 😂
Tell Gab about MC or Pep he will bring up negative things not this huge achievement
craig's point about the biggest budget is not correct for this team. They have the 5th biggest net spend in the league over the past 5 years. So if they had the biggest budget, they didn't spend it.
the biggest budget?
Charges, smargies.
BIG CHARGES
If anything
The city players and coaching is even more impressive because they HAVE got the charges hanging over them
Lesser players and lesser teams wouldn’t be able to handle the accusations
The doubters
The pressure etc
Look at Utd for example
If Kieran can be a pundit then so can I.
You're that guy your friends and family avoid giving good news.
We gonna win the next 115 💙
When a team wins 6 out 7 leagues and many other trophies, good luck renewing players contract on cheap, hence high wage bill.
Utd playing almost the same amount to players who has won nothing in their career
That's a lie which good players bcz most of the players city bought where not world class players
What if pep want to coach real Madrid
Craig is salty! GIVE PEP HIS PROPS! HE IS THE GOAT!!! stop hating
Just stop with biggest budget!! Maybe you all see the net spend in past 2-3 years.
Best squad, manager, budget.... and financial dopers
Rival fans praying "4" pep to leave !
craig stop hating on mcfc
Zidane can challenge pep
Suddenly a team is tainted because the club have more money than the others.
The media waited until City made history to bring up these so called charges and irregularities and then Craig says "this won't go away" - yeah because you keep bringing up the same tired narrative.
The bigger question is how does Man United, Arsenal and PSG have the money to spend so much? At least City are winning things and are therefore making money, not to mention almost always selling at a profit.
Lance Armstrong 115! 🥸
City in the 4th division city winning the quadruple I’ll be there until I’m gone 🗣️
+115
Greatest premier team run of all time. Premier league is still the best league in the world but also clearly the last 5 five years has been the weakest premier league of all time excluding City.