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Hundreds of millions against the crash
04.02.2025 – 2:54 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
No other club spent almost as much money in winter as Manchester City. The sporting pressure was probably just too high in the end.
It is known from previous transfer phases that Manchester City is not known to deal sparingly with his money. From the sporting need, Mancity has now set new standards and ended up almost 220 million euros with the end of the winter transfer window. An unimaginable sum at a squad that was previously worth well over a billion euros.
But the panic is big. In the local Premier League, the club of coach Pep Guardiola is completely behind his goals – and already 15 points behind leaders FC Liverpool. In addition, you have to go to the playoffs in the Champions League and get to deal with series winner Real Madrid. This threatens – and then connected with this, probably also discussions about Guardiola, even though he has just extended long -term?
In order to put again on attack, it has now been invested. Shortly before the transfer window was closed on Monday, Spanish international Nico González was hired by FC Porto, 60 million euros. It is intended to help the crisis “Skyblues” replace the long-term injured balloon d’Or winner Rodri and receives a contract until 2029.
Previously, Eintracht Frankfurt’s striker Omar Marmoush (75 million euros) and the young defenders Vitor Reis (37 million), Abdukodir Khusanov (40 million) and Juma Bah (6 million) had come. Together makes 218 million euros. For comparison: No other club of the Premier League spent more than 50 million euros in winter.
And all of this in times when Manchester City is still waiting for his judgment for violations of the Financial FairPlay. The result of the sensational process is still pending, it ran from September to December 2024. The Premier League accuses City of violations of the financial rules in a total of 115 cases. It is still unclear when the judgment will be made. Whether these again high expenditure-transfer income has now been generated in winter-have an impact?
The last sporting oath of revelation, a 1: 5 against Arsenal at the weekend, opened the box. And Pep Guardiola will have great hopes in the new commitments, after the Arsenal Debacle he hadn’t left good hair on his players.
“We crashed in the last 20 minutes. I’ll talk to the players, hopefully that doesn’t happen again. You always have to stay serious,” said Pep Guardiola. “It’s like that all season, we’ll give too much. We know that this shouldn’t happen.” You should also lose control. We could have scored three more goals, but the team has to be stable. It doesn’t matter what happened before. ” Because his team “played for 60 minutes really well”.
In order to achieve the sporting goals, the five new additions should help. Are the 218 million euros well invested? This will show the billing at the end of the season.