Chile global Bravo has been touted as a potential replacement for Joe Hart at the Etihad after new City coach Pep Guardiola dropped the England number one for Saturday’s Premier League opener against Sunderland.
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And there was plenty of anticipation to see whether Guardiola would recall Hart, but the England No. 1 was left on the bench again – just as he was for the Premier League opener against Sunderland.
It is a remarkable change of situation for 29-year-old Hart, who has been one of the mainstays of City’s successes in recent years and was one of their most consistent performers last season.
Barton insists that it is no longer the club he left in 2007 because that club wouldn’t have treated it’s players so badly.
Ahead of Tuesday’s first-leg in Romania – his second competitive game at the helm – City boss Guardiola told BT Sport: “I know how important it is for the club to be in the Champions League; now we are not in the Champions League”.
With Joe Hart’s Manchester City future in doubt, we look at the England international’s potential options.
‘The club I left and what they are now are two totally different organisations.
Mid-way through the season going in to that game on the back of a good run it might have been a game you were looking to go and get three points, but in light of the situation and having gone a goal behind, he will have been reasonably pleased. Why treat him like that?
Aguero, who plundered an impressive hat-trick in Bucharest, is convinced City are destined to achieve big things under the Spanish coach.
“I don’t see what he has done wrong to be treated the way he has”.
“Brendan Rodgers.wants to replace him [Simon Mignolet] with Joe Hart, who fears that he could be for the chop at Man City”. His attitude isn’t bad.
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“I’m not buying into the fact that Joe Hart can not clip a 30-yard or a 40-yard ball. That’s what every manager should do, give everyone an opportunity”.
