Manchester City have been on fire since the last couple of seasons and have been in the title race for longer. The rebranding and restructuring of the Manchester side late in the 2010s helped out the club to a great extent.
After the Arabian owners brought in the money to back up the club, City brought in Pep Guardiola to back up the players. Guardiola, probably one of the best to ever manage a football club, struck hard as he customised his team and came up with probably the best side in Europe right now.
Recently, City purchased a young British striker by the name of Jack Graelish after his incredible show for the national team and his premier league side.
Jack Graelish since then hasn’t had the best of statistics with only 3 goals and 3 assists so far.
“I think the main [statistics] are the goals and the assists,” he said in December. “They are the ones I am trying to work on the most.”
But Guardiola disagrees.
“Maybe he listened too much to what the people say,” Guardiola told reporters ahead of Tuesday’s FA Cup clash with Peterborough.
“It’s wrong but the statistics are better and he plays quite similar to Aston Villa in terms of ball contact.
“He had the chances against Crystal Palace in 20 minutes to score three goals. It didn’t happen but it’s going to happen. We didn’t buy him to score 45 goals.”
“It’s how you play today if you perform to your maximum, to your best, help your team-mates to make the process defensively and offensively better, it’s enough,” the City boss added. “Thanks to that we are going to win.
“Everyone has agents and managers and everything, and say what they have to do better and they listen to a lot of things about what they have to do. He’s playing well. If he wasn’t, I would tell him. That is not the case.”