Joao Cancelo returned from the World Cup in a gloomy state of mind, and the result of that is a move to Bayern Munich on loan. Pep insists on a tight ship...
on Friday night, Pep Guardiola was asked about Mikel Arteta’s decision to leave some of his first-team regulars for the game. “
The bottom line with Cancelo seems to be that he is unhappy when he’s not in the team and playing in the position in which he feels he should be playing. These are all completely understandable reactions from a professional footballer, but where Cancelo seems to differ from the majority is his inability to hide his annoyance when things aren’t quite going his way.
“You can not create something when people who are not playing regularly are creating problems,” he said as long ago as 2017. “Bad faces, bad behaviour from those guys… when that happens, forget about it. You cannot stay if it happens.” Manchester City already have cover for Cancelo in the form of Nathan Ake and Rico Lewis, with the latter having broken through to a regular spot in the first team this year, after making his Premier League debut for the club in August. But even allowing for this, the swiftness and decisiveness with which City have acted tells a story of the extent to which Guardiola will not tolerate disruptive voices in his first-team squad.
Because one of the most distinctive features of the teams that Pep has built has been, for all their relentless success on the pitch, the extent to which the egos of individual players have not been a significant issue.
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