{"id":53579,"date":"2025-10-17T18:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/guardiola-opens-door-to-grealish-at-man-city-and-praises-haaland\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:14:44","slug":"guardiola-opens-door-to-grealish-at-man-city-and-praises-haaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/guardiola-opens-door-to-grealish-at-man-city-and-praises-haaland\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola opens door to Grealish at Man City and praises Haaland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Guardiola Opens the Door to Grealish’s Return to Manchester City<\/h2>\n\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola has left open the possibility of Jack Grealish’s return to the team. The English player has had a significant impact on Everton, where he is currently on loan.\n\nGrealish, who joined Everton in August on a season-long loan, had lost prominence at the Etihad Stadium. Although he will not be able to play against Manchester City in the next Premier League match due to the restrictions of his loan, Guardiola has acknowledged his good performance.\n\n\n
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“I think he has a contract with us for one more year. The important thing is that he’s back. He has a great influence on Everton’s matches. After what has happened, maybe Manchester City will want him back, but I don’t know. Many things are going to happen. We’ll see.”<\/p>\n\nPep Guardiola<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nGuardiola was happy that Grealish is playing again and accumulating minutes on the field.\n\n\n

\"Jack<\/figure>\n\n\nJack Grealish has had a good start at Everton following his loan from Manchester City.\n\nAnother player that Guardiola is happy not to have to face is Erling Haaland, whom he considers to be in the best form of his career.\n\nThe Norwegian striker has scored 21 goals in 12 matches this season, both for Manchester City and the Norway national team.\n\n\n
  • Haaland scored five goals against Moldova in September.<\/li>
  • Also, he scored a hat-trick against Israel last weekend.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nIn nine games with City, he only failed to score in the defeat against Tottenham in September.\n\nHis 12 goals for City this season take his total to 136 since he joined the club in 2022.\n\nGuardiola joked that he would need to put “four central defenders” to stop Haaland if he were a rival coach.\n\n\n
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    “I had the pleasure of facing him when I was in Dortmund and I hope I don’t have to face him again for the rest of my life. He is a first-class player. In world football, there are four, five, six, ten players who make the difference. I think he is one of them. We have him, hopefully for many years, and we are very happy about that.” <\/p>\n\nPep Guardiola<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nWhen asked if he thinks this is Haaland’s best moment, the Spanish coach replied: “I think so. He feels very good and his performance levels, not only in terms of goals, but in many things, are outstanding.”\n\nGuardiola also mentioned that he doesn’t feel the need to manage Haaland in a special way at the moment and will only intervene if he is going through a bad time.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Guardiola Opens the Door to Grealish’s Return to Manchester City Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has left open the possibility of Jack Grealish’s return to the team. The English player has had a significant impact on Everton, where he is currently on loan. Grealish, who joined Everton in August on a season-long loan, had lost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[275,1198,3533,1200],"class_list":{"0":"post-53579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-erling-haaland","8":"tag-guardiola","9":"tag-jack-grealish","10":"tag-manchester-city"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}