Harry Kane will take on Pep Guardiola’s fake £1 billion transfer story as FSG and Liverpool restrictions emerge – Theo Squires

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Pep Guardiola has become economical with the truth once again. Who knows?

Last April, the Manchester City boss claimed it would be impossible for his team to sign a striker this summer as a replacement for Sergio Aguero because they could not afford it.

“There is a great chance that we will not sign a striker this summer,” the Spaniard insisted earlier in statements to reporters.

“We have enough players in the first team at the moment and we have interesting players in the academy, so there is a great chance that because of the economic situation in the world at the moment, we will not sign the striker next season.

“With these prices we will not buy any striker. Sorry, we will not buy any striker. It is impossible. We cannot afford it. It is impossible so this will not happen. All clubs are suffering financially, and we are no exception.

“We have Gabriel Jesus, we have Ferran Torres, who has played unbelievably this season in this position, we have young players in the academy, we have played a few times with false nines.

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“I don’t know what’s going to happen, maybe it will happen, but maybe we won’t buy any striker for next season.

“Today there is a greater chance that we will not buy any striker for next season.”

A £100m bid for Harry Kane and the £100m signing of Jack Grealish was later turned down, and it’s funny how quickly things can change.

Obviously, when you are funded by an Emirates, the impossible becomes possible. It’s a miracle!

He probably doesn’t work at the same stadium as Liverpool and the rest of City’s rivals after all. Go and conclude.

Of course, Guardiola’s previous comments pleading for poverty have been taken with a pinch of salt, but his recent claims to defend City’s £100m arrival are questionable.

He told reporters ahead of the launch of Community Shield: “When we can spend that money, it’s a lot because we can sell 60 million pounds. We sell young players from the academy and players on loan for 60 million pounds and when you sell 60 million pounds, it is possible (spend 100). million pounds sterling).

There is so much to these ‘young players in the academy’ that City didn’t need to sign a striker.

Did City sell for £60m though?

Well, their previous transfer record was £54.8m for Leroy Sane to Bayern Munich last year, so it was never achieved for a single player to start with.

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They have brought in so far this summer £11.7m for Lukas Nmecha from VfL Wolfsburg and around £11m from Leeds United for Jack Harrison, losing Eric Garcia on a free transfer to Barcelona.

That’s £11.7m from the academy, plus an international defender lost for nothing, and £11m for a player on loan.

Good job babe! You have really reinvented the wheel.

But let’s be fair to the city.

They once sold academy graduate Kelechi Iheanacho to Leicester City for £24m in 2017 and Shaun Wright-Phillips to Chelsea for £21m in 2005, both appearing in the top-five transfer fee received alongside reckless Sane. and Danilo who was quickly neglected. and Alvaro Negredo.

This academy pays for itself!

In contrast, Liverpool brought in more than £30m for academy graduates Rhian Brewster, Kee Jana Hoover, Ovei Ijaria and Herbie Kane last summer, in addition to £10.9m for Dejan Lovren, and also spent another £33.3m for Liam Millar and Kamel. Grabara, Marko Grujic, Taiwo Awoniyi and Harry Wilson this time.

Where did Jurgen Klopp next sign for £100m?

Sure, if you go back far enough and include the sales of Angelino (second round only for RB Leipzig £16.3m), Tusin Adarabioyo to Fulham (£2m), Felix Correa to Juventus (£9.5m), Thierry Ambrose To Metz (£1.8m) and Douglas Luiz to Aston Villa (£15m), you could just break the £60m barrier mentioned above.

But City still spent more than £120m on Ferran Torres, Nathan Ake and Robin Dias last summer, with £54.8m brought in by Sane and £13.7m brought on to Nicolas Otamendi somewhat undermining the academy’s case.

Still, he takes advantage of skepticism and all that.

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He added: “We spent £40m on Jack Grealish. £100m to pay and £60m we won last year.”

Wait, I’ve moved the goalposts now, babe! Where did the £60m come from, then? From selling players or from prize money?

It can be argued that the reality will be a mixture of the two, topped with a large amount of Emirati financial support.

Kudos to bringing such money together from past distress, especially when Citi still can’t afford Kane.

So far.

“He’s a player with Tottenham Hotspur and if Tottenham don’t want to negotiate, it’s over,” Guardiola admitted. “I think Man City and many clubs in the world want to try to sign him, we are no exception, but it depends on Tottenham.

“It’s different than Jack. He had the release (item) and Jack is different. Harry is exceptional and we are interested in him but if Spurs don’t want to negotiate then nothing else to say.”

So City can’t afford striker (Kane) because Spurs are currently digging their heels and don’t want to sell?

Well, I think what Guardiola claimed is true then, from a certain point of view.

Give it up, babe. You’ve spent £100 million on Jack Grealish and are likely to spend more than that on Harry Kane.

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And if Lionel Messi moves to the Premier League, City will bring in record wages for the legendary Argentine as well.

Enough of these false facts.

Sure, if City does end up selling the likes of the rotten Bernardo Silva this summer, it would help fund such moves, but the owners already have pockets deep enough.

At Grealish, they have their first Premier League player worth £100m, while Kane is likely to be the second.

If they sign the England captain, Guardiola will have spent more than £1 billion since his move to the FA in 2016, while his spending currently totals at least £880 million.

The City manager can claim his funding comes from the academy players selling and loaning everything he loves, but who is he trying to convince?

Man City’s spending under his supervision, and even before him, is there for all to see and, even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, has shown no signs of slowing down.

They are the only Premier League team that consistently spends at these levels, with Manchester United and Chelsea the other two sides can come close when it comes to investing.

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However, Liverpool still found a way to compete on the pitch, in both the Premier League and the Champions League.

Sure, the Reds aren’t poor under the FSG, but they won’t be able to spend to the extent of their fiercer competitors.

That may leave them as the side most at risk of getting out of the title race, but they know their limits and make their achievements in recent years all the more impressive.

Liverpool beat Manchester City before and they can do it again.

You just wonder what false narrative Guardiola will push next time he bends the truth and defends his “courageous” side.

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