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Congrats: Guardiola 100% Going to Win Champions League with Haaland

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SportsFila believes ManCity will finally win their first UCL this season. Congratulations: Pep Guardiola 100% Going to Win Champions League with Haaland. Former Manchester City CB Micah Richards discusses Pep Guardiola’s legacy at the club and discusses whether or not he should be judged based on lack of UCL titles or not.

EPL robot Erling Haaland admits Manchester City bought him to win Champions League. Erling Haaland has stated he was bought by Manchester City to help them win a first Champions League after his five goals in Tuesday’s 7-0 victory over Leipzig swept Pep Guardiola’s side into the quarter-finals.

Sean Forbes
1 year ago
God bless Pep and the players and the City fans. Losing a final is so horrible. I remember 2008 as clearly as I remember 2012. I’m not sure what they have to do to win the UCL at this point but they’re a great side.

Pep only ever managed it at Barca with arguably some of the greatest midfielders and attackers of all time, definitely the best of their era. Not saying he hasn’t dominated league football, but to go to Bayern and City with the money and players at his disposal and not even get 1 in over 10 years is damning. Dominates league football but to what end, still get beat time and time again by Europe’s best.

BBBC said: Haaland says he was brought to Manchester City to help them win the Champions League because they “already know” how to win the Premier League.

Haaland, 22, scored five goals in City’s 7-0 thrashing of RB Leipzig on Tuesday that secured their place in the Champions League quarter-finals.

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City’s best performance in the competition is finishing runners-up to Chelsea in 2021.

“Of course the club want to win the Champions League,” said Haaland.

“They’ve won four out of the last five Premier League titles. They didn’t bring me in to win the Premier League because they already know how to win it.

“So, you can read between the lines. I’m here to try to help the club develop even more and to win the Champions League for the first time.”

City’s failure to lift the Champions League is in contrast to their recent domestic success, and SportsFila.com painfully wishes the Sky Blues all the best this year.

They have won 17 trophies since owner Sheikh Mansour’s takeover of the club in 2008, including six Premier League titles – f

I’m with Jamie on this one. You can twist it how you want to by saying he was brought in to “dominate football”, but we all know what it means to dominate football as a European club: win the Champions League.

With the investment and time put into this City operation, it’s not nearly enough to be just “dominating (English) football”. He’s crossed that line about 5 years ago.

Yes. For Guardiola at City, winning the UCL will be the definition of success. His legacy at City will be judged by whether he wins the UCL. Chelsea won UCL within 9 years of their takeover so City will be targetting that timeframe because they used the same model.

Of course he will be judged if he doesn’t win the Champions League, It’s a huge deal. If he wins it he will be praised even more than he’s being praised now, so if he doesn’t win it of course there will be a reaction to that as well. Now you can make of that what you want, but to say that it won’t affect his legacy at City at all is insane to me.

Not winning the champions league after throwing billions at a club is shambolic 😂😂😂.. people that say city has ever been the best team in the world are on serious smoke, they have never gotten the job done, not once.

Haaland’s performance propelled, ManCity into the quarter-finals and underlined their determination to finally win the one major prize that has eluded them.

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“Of course the club want to win the Champions League,” said Haaland, who has now scored a staggering 39 goals in 36 appearances for City since arriving from Borussia Dortmund last summer.

“They’ city won four out of the last five Premier League titles. They didn’t bring me [Haaland] in to win the Premier League because they already know how to win it.

We would not have judged him by the champions league if they didn’t call his team the best in the world for years and being picked number one contender for years yet keeps bottling it most times than not against way smaller teams. Getting knocked out by Monaco, Lyon and Spurs isn’t good enough.

Kenny Shrimpton
3 weeks ago
Micah seems to forget before pep came city already were winning premier leagues with different managers they weren’t the city pre mancini after mancini they started to figure out how to be consistently in the title race, sure pep has taken that to another level, but he was brought in with the ambition of winning in Europe. As Jose would say its “football heritage” the squad he inherited were already good enough to compete in the league and Europe it was more having a manager who could take them to the next step and contrary to what micah is saying it would affect his legacy as a manager. I hate to say it like that but it is, city fans and ex players might not admit it but we all know pep was brought in with the idea of winning the champions league. Sure he’s won league titles and created sustainable success but they already had success

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United ON THE BRINK of Champions League exit thanks to Onana

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3-3 draw between Manchester United and Galatasaray in UEFA Champions League – Group A. They also analyze the performance of goalkeeper Andre Onana and the chances of Erik ten Hag’s side of advancing to the knockout stages.

Not saying Onana is done at Utd but surely ETH needs to give the back up a chance at this point. Even DDG needed to come out of the team briefly when he first came to the club. Gives him a chance to build his confidence away from the spot light. But TBH DDG was never this bad to begin with sm

Throwing away leads, basic mistakes and tonight, despite Onana performing better recently we might as well have had Jonny Evans in goal.

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As much as I like eth, he caused our exit by bringing in a keeper not too familiar with EPL. In fact he should not have sent David away the way he did. He should have kept him and the duo should have competed. Onana errors contributed a lot to the exit

Tactically, I think ETH did pretty much everything correctly. Outside of Magelof not being good enough in general, the only criticism I can offer is that Mainoo should’ve come on for McGhost after he scored his goal. Solidify that midfield and shut everything down.

Credit/Getty Images: Andre Onana VS David De Gea – Who Is Better

The keeper had a bad game and had a lot already this season which isn’t great but let’s hope he gets better as the season goes cause I remember when De Gea first came to United and he was not great as well but he matured, got stronger and became a great goalkeeper. But ETH needs to replace Onana for the next game and let him know that he needs to step it up.

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As a United fan I have to disagree with the assessment of the performance. There was no control, no maturity. United give the ball away far too easily for this level. When you have less possession than a Sean Dyche team and then get 43% against Galatasaray, you’re not the technical side the manager wants to build. I feel sorry for Onana, he’s been doing much better recently. The mistakes he’s making are so basic it speaks to a mental problem. My hope is that Onana will feel much more comfortable when we develop into the team Ten Hag wants. Need to bring in ball-playing CBs and controller midfielders in the next two windows. Then we’ll see the real picture.

I honestly hope we finish bottom of the group so they can just focus on the domestic front. This team is poor to say the least and we will get knocked out in the second round even if we scale through by some miracle. So best not to, as for “O na na, whats my name” Don called it! He needs to reassess his priorities as a goalkeeper… now I’m ranting on YouTube, darn you ManUtd!

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David de Gea short-term fix Manchester United

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Can David de Gea be the short-term fix Manchester United needs? | If I was him I wouldn’t go back there after the way he was disrespected .. I can’t believe the management could be this bold and daft after the treatment they gave that guy.

Don’t do it!!! They decided you weren’t good enough and decided to get onana. Even if you took a pay cut, it would of been to facilitate onana. That’s tells you what you need to know

Of course teams have offered him contacts and he’s chosen to say no. He’s said very clearly he’ll go to club fighting to win things and unfortunately all the top clubs have keepers. He might come back when the right club wants him.

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Wonder if Man U is telling Onana to skip the African cup due to his recent poor performances. Otherwise they’re telling him his spot is at risk

United have no transfer strategy so this potential move makes 100% sense. Afterall they bought Mason Mount for 50 million to warm the bench.

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It will be a mess and destabilising if we bring him back.. Shoking how he was treated after 12 years. And we bought a young goalkeeper, surely he gets a chance and we still have Heaton I believe.. What’s the point anymore? 😆 We’re a joke!

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De Gea deserved better treatment. He should plain down reject any offer or entertain the offer just to reject it. The Man Utd negotiators could not negotiate their way out of a brown paper bag, absolutely disgrace to their profession.

If they bring him back prep for a new manager. Cause ten hag is clearly incompetent.
And he’s been offered but he won’t take less than what he is worth, he’s a golden glove winner and a legend 🤷🏽. Onana can’t even distribute this season and can’t stop a beach ball.

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It’s a strange one this because de Gea priced himself out of a job. He wanted a contract worth more than than the £375k a week he was already getting, and Man United originally agreed to one, and then changed their mind, and I don’t blame them. He’s worth $75 million thanks to MUFC.

He was the World’s richest goalkeeper last season, and while he is a great goalkeeper, most pundits would name either Nuer or the recently retired Buffon as the greatest goalkeeper of the last 15 years, and most pundits would put the Brazilian duo Ederson and Becker as the best keepers in the Prem right now. What I’m saying is that at $75 million net worth de Gea could have afforded to be philosophical about it all and perhaps taken a pay cut.

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Eriksen great performance in Man Utd UCL win!

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Christian Eriksen joins Peter Schmeichel for a post-game interview after a Man of the Match performance after Manchester United’s 1-0 win over Copenhagen. Eriksen came in as a second-half substitute and assisted Harry Maguire’s game-winning goal.

Still can’t believe Eriksen plays for Man United, especially after we all know what happened to him. I still remember that day and honestly thought we’d lost him. So happy to see him around and still playing.

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Glad to see Eriksen get his praise. He was always my favorite player at Spurs. Lack of competition in the squad forced him to regress a bit in his career. Barcelona/Real Madrid were interested at him at a time. Then he went to the demon Conte, who doesn’t know how to handle flair footballers. And of course after his health situation, happy he got to perform at Brentford, and for Ten Haag with his creative flair. Though now Man Utd have both Ambrabat, and Casemiro, should make him perform much better in a free role! Or at least backup to Bruno.

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The only reason i dont see Eriksen starting is because it doesn’t always look like he can play a full match, hence ETH has to be wise regarding when he should put Eriksen in the game. But everytime he’s subbed on, the entire team breaths easier and gains that extra sense of control. A game that was otherwise frantic, uncoordinated, improvised and scrappy, was all turned around when Eriksen came on the pitch. Gosh I wish we could see more to him.

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The midfield in the Derby has to be him, Brumo and Amrabat.. whenever Eriksen plays deeper, it releases Bruno.. this experiment of Bruno playing as a deep playmaker and Mctominey as a 10/Second Striker has clearly failed.

We know Eriksen can’t play 90 minutes, but ETH should try to start with him and find a comfortable lead before subbing him off. I don’t remember Bruno having any influence on the game, or in previous games, he is so panicked in possession unlike Mr.Cool here. I would swap them around and see what happens.

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