Blasting ‘Small Clubs’, Pep Guardiola Dishes Compelling POV Behind Selling Players to Rivals

Manchester City have won plenty of trophies and have made constant progress under Pep Guardiola. The big reason for that is the owners and Pep work together for all the decisions. One of the aspects is buying and selling the players in the transfer market. While being on the richer side, the Cityzens seemingly do not mind if their player joins a rival club and Pep Guardiola explains why.

The owners of the club have backed Pep in every decision he has made related to the team. This is also the reason, they are favorites to win multiple trophies every season.

Pep Guardiola slams ‘small club’ mentality and explains the 3 sides of a transfer

Manchester City have managed to surprise everyone with their transfer strategy every season. This is in terms of selling players like Zinchenko, Gabriel Jesus, Cole Palmer, and Raheem Sterling to the likes of Arsenal and Chelsea in the last few transfer windows, Many describe it as a bad strategy because the transfers are making your rivals strong. However, Pep Guardiola has no issues in selling players to rivals. He has also called out clubs refusing to sell as ‘small clubs’.

Pep was asked about the risk of selling players to rival clubs. He said, “From my point of view, I give my opinion to the club but after that, the club has to decide if the transfer is good for both sides and for the player. But never ever has it been an issue. I think that means you are a small club. Big clubs make decisions for the benefit of all three parties: players, both clubs – and agents sometimes”.

“Really, it’s not a problem. So if they want to go to Chelsea or (Manchester) United or, I don’t know, Liverpool or whatever, what is the problem? They are happy to be there, the club is happy about the transfer. Another player would come and we’d keep going: good spirit, good mood, and try to do it.”

Pep Guardiola has nevertheless made risky decisions on selling squad players to rival teams. On the flip side, the Spanish coach has also done well in replacing the players with new signings every transfer window.

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The Premier League giants lost the likes of Gabriel Jesus, Raheem Sterling, Aymeric Laporte, and many more to different teams. But they have done well in replacing them. They have brought in the likes of Erling Haaland, Julian Alvarez, Jack Grealish, Josko Gvardiol, and Jeremy Doku to replace them. All of these players have performed well and some of them have helped the club in winning the treble last season. Whereas, the others will play an important role in winning trophies this season and in future seasons.

Manchester City have also sold some of their highly-rated academy players like Shea Charles to Championship side Southampton. But, the good thing, they have done is inserted a buy-back clause in the deal. This type of deal lets them play regular first-team soccer that they would not get at Manchester City. So, how many trophies with the Cityzens manage to win this season? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

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