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Club vs country
Full Poch
If you want every word of the Tottenham boss’s rant, Football London have provided a transcript here.
Pep's Southgate chat
Pep Guardiola had a word with Gareth Southgate before the international games.
“We spoke about Raheem, John, Kyle, Fabian but just normal how they are - weather, not specifics, he knows if they need something i’m here, no problem at all.”
More Poch
More from Pochettino - he’s really angry!
“I know Pep.
“When he’s excited after an amazing win he struggles to keep his position and be a gentleman.
“It was disrespectful for many.
“When he was at Barca I never said ‘the Messi team’
“I think it’s a sad comment because the players laugh about that. If you’re a manager you must show more, no? To be above this type of comment.”
Sanchez talk
Pep keeping schtum on Alexis.
Open section
That’s it from the first half of the press conference, the rest will be online tonight at 10.30pm. But we’ll tidy it up and bring you anything missed out first time round, and there will still be plenty going on!
Manager of the Month
A broader response on winning the Manager of the Month award
It’s good. Thank you very much to the PL but the ones who win are the ones on the pitch. you depend on your players. I’m very grateful.
City internationals
Sounds good on De Bruyne.
Delph every weekend
Mendy has his say!
Kompany fitness
Not great.
Still injured. He’s much, much better but he’s still injured. Hopefully he is in the last part.
Mendy problem
Benjamin Mendy is talked up as the big problem ahead of the January transfer window. Danilo, Delph and Zinchenko slated as fill-ins but he has said before he would consider a January replacement.
Aguero fitness
Aguero could be back for Stoke.
He did his first training session after what happened. He did quite well. Hopefully as soon as possible he will be back. Maybe [against Stoke].
Poch on Pep
OUCH.
Pep power
He’s on his way.
Another blow for Stoke, another boost for City
Joe Allen will miss Stoke’s trip to City due to the concussion he suffered while on international duty with Wales.
The 27-year-old midfielder took a blow to the head having been caught between David Meyler and James McClean during the Republic of Ireland’s victory in Cardiff on Monday that dashed Wales’ World Cup hopes.
Hughes revealed Allen had little recollection of the incident and would be missing at the Etihad Stadium because he was not far enough along in the concussion protocol process.
“Joe’s not great; we’ve given him a couple of days just to stay at home,” Hughes said.
“He came in yesterday (Thursday), felt a lot better, but I think the reality is he’s unlikely to be available unfortunately.
“Clearly concussion’s a thing you can’t take any risk with, we’ve got to follow the protocol. Hopefully he’ll start to show some improvement and be ready to come back and train at some point next week. He’s not going to be available this week.
“He was allowed home but he had a bang to the head. He found it difficult to remember the incident itself - that tells you where he’s at in terms of the severity of it.
“We’ve got to be very careful. We’re being guided by the medical people here. At the moment he’s not in position to return to training.”
Sergio's looking good
That rib looks ok.
We Love Manchester
Help the fund.
'City are the best side'
Former Chelsea coach Gianluca Vialli reckons Chelsea are doing pretty well but that City look better.
“The transfer activities then improved and Antonio got the players that he wanted and he got a very good sequence of performances and results. They then lost to Manchester City which looks, in my opinion, like the best side in the Premier League this season.
Vialli to Goal
Stoke news
Mark Hughes could be missing three key players for Saturday’s game. Joe Allen likely to miss out as well as two centre backs
“We are probably as we were before the break in terms of defenders.
“We will still be missing Ryan Shawcross, which is disappointing, although he is making good progress.
“We have to be patient with him, although we do feel that he will be back pretty soon.
“Unfortunately Bruno still isn’t with us neither, so we are going to have to wait on him a little bit longer.”
Mark Hughes to Stoke website
Guardiola wins award
Manager of the Month for Pep Guardiola!
Wilcox takes academy helm
Jason Wilcox has been appointed as City’s academy director.
The 46-year-old, who won the Premier League title with Blackburn in 1995, had been in the role on an interim basis since June and has now take on the position on a full-time basis.
Wilcox, who also played for Leeds, Leicester and Blackpool, joined the City academy coaching staff five years ago, coaching the under-18s squad to a national championship title and two FA Youth Cup finals.
Wilcox, who won three caps for England, said: “I have really enjoyed my time at Manchester City over the last five years and I am excited to take on this new challenge at the club as academy director.
“The City Football Academy is a state of the art youth development facility, but the passion and the commitment of the staff and players will really make a difference to what we can achieve going forward.
“Our goal is to develop well-rounded, talented individuals on and off the pitch and I am relishing the opportunity to help us meet this objective day in and day out.”
Stand together
Yaya’s pledge.
Hart 'unappreciated'
West Ham boss Slaven Bilic has defended goalkeeper Joe Hart - on loan from City - following recent criticism.
“I think you don’t appreciate him. I watched the game against Slovenia. He was man of the match,” the Croatian said.
“But you didn’t have that feeling from the studio, from the commentator, saying it was a penalty [to Slovenia] – it wasn’t a penalty. If it was anyone else goalkeeping in that situation, nobody would say it was a penalty. I have that feeling at this moment.
“Has he become an easy target? Yes. The guy is brilliant. I’m not just talking about goalkeeping now. The guy never slaughters anyone in the job.
“He is taking the bullets, he is there every single time, whether he is at City or Torino or West Ham. He is a great professional and a top pro.”
City Women's sweet 16
City move in to the last 16 of the Champions League last night with a 6-0 aggregate victory over SKN St Polten.
Nikita Parris, Jill Scott and Mel Lawley goals give the Blues a simple second-leg win following their a 3-0 victory in Austria last Wednesday.
Kun: I'm ready
Sergio Aguero was on the training field yesterday.
Aguero injury could have been worse
Sergio Aguero has admitted he could have suffered far worse than a broken rib in his recent car crash in Amsterdam.
The City striker was injured while spending a day off in the Dutch capital a fortnight ago when a taxi in which he was travelling crashed into a post.
Aguero’s injuries were expected to keep him out of action for between two and four weeks but the 29-year-old realises the accident could have left him in a much worse condition.
“When I got to the hospital I asked the doctor if I could play for City on the Saturday. He said, ‘I don’t believe so’.
“I took a moment to think and realised it’s thanks to wearing a seat-belt that I’m able to talk about this at all.”
Argentina’s national-team doctor was quoted last week saying Aguero was likely to be sidelined for up to six weeks, but the player himself appears to have the initial prognosis in mind.
That means he could have a chance of returning to action in Saturday’s Premier League clash against Stoke at the Etihad Stadium.
Aguero, who was pictured back in light training earlier this week, said:
“I’ll rejoin the group and see how I feel, whether I’m comfortable or not.”
City's advantage over rivals
Pochettino thinks that City have one clear advantage over his side.
Messi to City?
Well the Blues do need back-up for David Silva.
The wait is nearly over...
Just one day left until City are back in Premier League action!