With Manchester City falling to defeat against both Liverpool and Real Madrid last week, we’ve taken a look at the makeup of their squad to try and assess if that is where the problem lies.
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00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World. Today we're going to be talking about sport,
00:02and specifically Manchester City. Now either through mismanagement,
00:05exhaustion or lack of confidence or quality, City look bereft of ideas. Particularly when
00:10you take into account City's spending in January, with Omar Mahmoud, Abdukode Kusinov,
00:14Vital Reiss and Nico Gonzalez all coming in for substantial fees. Mahmoud does look to be a good
00:19buyer, with Gonzalez appearing effective, but Kusinov and Reiss were both brought as project
00:24defenders. Kusinov has been thrown at the deep end however, and is just barely keeping his head
00:28above water. So we're going to take a quick glance at their squad, to try and figure out
00:31where the problem lies. We're going to start with the injury list. Oscar Bob, Manuel Akanji,
00:35John Stones, Rodri and Erling Haaland are all out currently. The existing squad of many players are
00:40aging out of their prime. De Bruyne is a City legend, but he's been minimally effective all
00:44year and wasn't even picked for the game against Real Madrid, which would have been incomprehensible
00:49a year ago. Now it might just be that this is a bridge year. They're moving on from the old
00:53guard and bringing in new guys who haven't quite settled in yet. They need a win against Tottenham
00:57to avoid falling apart completely this season.