After losing the team's top scorer, Aguero, Guardiola had hoped that the club's top brass would bring Tottenham striker Harry Kane to Manchester City for a transfer fee of around £120 million, but Levy was reluctant to let go of the British star easily. After missing harry Kane, Guardiola turned his target to Cristiano Ronaldo, and although the Portuguese superstar is not young, his lethality in the front is still world-class.
Let Guardiola regret, Ferguson in the key moment to intervene a hand, suggesting that C Ronaldo choose to join Manchester United, in the face of the expectations of the teacher, the Portuguese superstar can only choose to compromise, Manchester City finally failed to introduce Aguero's replacement in the new season, invisibly buried hidden dangers. With City's strong squad, Guardiola can use a no-front line to compensate for the attacking power problems caused by the lack of a centre-forward in the team.
But without the presence of top centre-forwards, City's tactics have lost their diversity and can easily be effectively targeted by strong teams. Due to the number of games in the league, Manchester City's impact on the lack of a top centre-forward is relatively small, but it exposes great problems in the cup matches. In the Community Shield final, City lost 0-1 to Leicester City, and in the fourth round of the League Cup, City finally lost 3:5 in the penalty shootout.
In the FA Cup semi-final against the powerful Liverpool, Manchester City was eliminated by a score of 2:3, which means that Guardiola has not had the last laugh in the cup so far this season, which is a very rare phenomenon, and no sequelae of the top centre-forwards have been exposed. Now That City only have champions league titles and league titles to compete for, the current situation makes Pep Guardiola's team prospects very unoptimistic.
Champions League semi-finals against the state of the hot, and lucky Real Madrid, Guardiola may not dare to have the slightest optimism, the Galaxy under the leadership of Ancelotti this season is back on track, Benzema and Vinicius and other players play very well, the Champions League has eliminated the powerful Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea, the foundation is too strong, such Real Madrid is not this Manchester City can easily beat.
Even if Guardió is lucky enough to pass the real Madrid level, the Champions League final will most likely meet Liverpool, and the result will probably be another defeat. In the league, although Manchester City is temporarily at the top of the table, but only 1 point ahead of Liverpool, Klopp will not give up the great opportunity to impact the honor of the four champions, so it will inevitably force Manchester City. If you're unlucky, the Blue Moon could be hit by all four of the season's biggest names.
Guardiola has deeply experienced the distress of not having a top striker, if Manchester City gets Ronaldo, the team's attack methods can be diversified, and it will definitely not be frustrated in the cup, even if it is a big opportunity to compete for the quadruple crown, it can be seen that the price is too great. It is believed that Guardiola will focus on the center position at the end of the season, Haaland has become an important target, as long as the Norwegian talent joins Manchester City, the overall strength of the team can be further improved. Bringing in Haaland is a lot of money, but for Manchester City it is fully capable of affording, and perhaps next season is the best time for Guardiola to show off his strength.