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OLIVER HOLT: Is this an apparition that we see before us? Is it real? Is Liverpool-Manchester City at Anfield a football match or a ghost-game? Will it remain in the sport's history books or will it be erased when City's guilty verdicts on 114 charges of financial chicanery meet their punishment sometime in the months ahead? There was a time when any Premier League clash between these two sides would have been regarded as the best advertisement for the English game that there could be. Not anymore. This game is being played at a wonderful stadium but it might as well be in a circus tent. It is not a match. It is a giant and terrible curiosity. The great managers who helped to define this collision between modern giants - Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola - are both gone and now this clash stands for something else: it marks the start of a period of slow torture for the top flight in this country‚ a period when we cannot know whether there is any permanence attached to results that involve City. A period when we will not know whether we should believe what we see.
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MATT BARLOW: A rough old week in the gilded life of Pep Guardiola has taken another turn for the worse. First‚ the bombshell of Manchester City's guilty verdict compounded by details of their brazen disregard for Premier League rules as they built him a team to dominate. Then‚ the Negreira scandal reared up again in Spain with a 50‚000 pages of evidence compiled by Real Madrid landing at UEFA on Thursday accusing arch-rivals Barcelona of making illicit payments to an influential referees' chief.
Pep Guardiola has broken his silence on Manchester City being found guilty of all the substantive charges brought against them by the Premier League for financial wrongdoing - and told fans: 'we will get through this together'.
Gallagher‚ alongside brother and bandmate Liam‚ is a big City fan and can regularly be seen at the side's games. He is also friends with former manager Pep Guardiola‚ and went into the club's dressing room after they won the 2018-19 Premier League title. A guilty verdict‚ meanwhile‚ has been delivered on the vast majority of City's 115 rule-break charges concerning the Premier League's financial regulations. The competition accused the club of widespread financial cheating over an era of sustained success - with an independent panel hearing concluding in 2024.
IAN LADYMAN: If Enzo Maresca is lucky we will one day look back and ask when it was we finally felt he had truly taken hold of Pep Guardiola's Manchester City and claimed it as his own. If he is really lucky and if he does enough and wins enough to stick around for the long-term‚ then we may reflect on derby day in September 2026 as the day we finally drew a line under the years of Guardiola genius. So far it's been a slow burn for Maresca at City and that's because Guardiola still has his name and his principles running right through this City team. Phil Foden‚ Erling Haaland‚ Ruben Dias‚ Rayan Cherki. It's impossible not to see the great Catalan in so much of what they do.
City have had a flying start to the new season‚ securing dominant victories against Crystal Palace‚ Bournemouth and Coventry. United have had a sluggish start‚ with just four points in three games. Last time the two met‚ United won 2-0 at Old Trafford in what would be Pep Guardiola's last Manchester derby in charge and then-interim manager Michael Carrick 's first‚ with goals from Bryan Mbeumo and Patrick Dorgu. This time‚ Enzo Maresca is in charge of the blue side‚ and Carrick is the permanent boss of the Red Devils.
JACK GAUGHAN: Ghosts of the Dragao were whispering. Whispering about holding midfielders and overthinking‚ whispering about Kai Havertz and gaping defences‚ whispering about throwing away matches that Manchester City had dominated. The circumstances around the 2021 Champions League final in this very stadium still haunt those of a City persuasion but not the squad. How can they? Only Phil Foden and Ruben Dias are left from that defeat by Chelsea‚ a Covid final in front of half a ground and when travelling City supporters were drowsy from the drink in the baking sun down by the River Douro. Drowsier still afterwards. Past glories and past failures cannot be on Enzo Maresca's agenda‚ carving a fresh team with a tweaked identity‚ although starting a teenager in Ayyoub Bouaddi instead of the more seasoned Elliot Anderson could easily have become a nod to Pep Guardiola's infamous decision to not operate with a conventional No 6 against Thomas Tuchel's Chelsea.
IAN LADYMAN: Pep Guardiola may be gone from the Premier League but his shadow remains. Footage from a new Manchester City documentary has revealed the desperate and unusual lengths the great Catalan went to in a bid to energise and motivate his players over the course of his final two seasons. Watching a genius struggle for new ideas is painful but insightful. Every manager in the game reaches a stage where old methods fail‚ players stop hanging on every word and the stresses and strains of the job simply become too much.
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JACK GAUGHAN: While presiding over a wretched stretch of nine defeats in 12 games‚ the Catalan dug deep into his soul in an attempt to shock City players into action. After losing 2-0 away at Juventus in the Champions League ‚ a visibly frustrated Guardiola compared the separation to a sharp decline in performances from his team.
JACK GAUGHAN: Even when signing his final new contract in November 2024‚ Pep Guardiola knew that change would soon be necessary at Manchester City. Chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak could feel their time together coming to a close during a meeting in Abu Dhabi to decide on an extension amid the worst run of results throughout Guardiola's gilded career.
OLIVER HOLT IN CARDIFF: When the curtain went up on the new Premier League season at the Principality Stadium‚ Manchester City recoiled at what they saw. Pep Guardiola was not standing on the touchline for a start. In his stead‚ poor Enzo Maresca looked like a man blotted out by the shadow of his predecessor's greatness.
The opening day of the Premier League season is fast approaching‚ with a supercomputer backing Arsenal to defend their title in the 2026-27 campaign. Mikel Arteta's side ended a 22-year wait to be crowned champions last term‚ with the Gunners holding off Man City after finishing as runners-up in three successive seasons. Arteta will look to become just the fourth manager in Premier League history to retain the title‚ following Sir Alex Ferguson‚ Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola.
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JACK GAUGHAN IN SEOUL: The manager's office is no more. Converted into a meeting room these days‚ one still filled by an aura of the guy who bid a teary farewell three months ago. Those walls can talk and Enzo Maresca would rather do his just down the corridor instead. Maresca‚ the new Manchester City boss‚ has taken up permanent residence in the office previously held by a Pep of the Lijnders vintage rather than Guardiola. The decision‚ one of his first in the chair‚ represents a literal embodiment of the reset that Maresca has been preaching to his players during pre-season in Asia.
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