Manchester City v Newcastle and the fear of someone dropping a Pollock

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If not now, then when? The logic on Tyneside is that Saturday’s 3pm kick-off between Manchester City and Newcastle at the Etihad is where Pep Guardiola’s patronising of Wor Eddie ends. Erling Haaland? We’ve got Alexander Isak, man. He even runs around a bit. The managers have been well acquainted for some years now, back to Eddie’s Bournemouth days when his trusty bunch of former EFL-ers would turn up in Manchester to get thoroughly gubbed. Pep would float them back down to Dorset, his simpering tones gushing sweet praise of being “so, so good”, despite losing 4-0, 4-0 and 3-1 in successive seasons.

Here [it] is simple – to do something we need to sell players” – Ruben Amorim on the reality of managing in the Big Sir Jim era at Manchester United.

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