MARK Hughes, the man first blooding and first dropping Joe Hart, admits to being surprised by the England goalkeeper’s latest and most controversial omission at Manchester City.
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Joe Hart is being linked with an exit from Manchester City this month after seemingly losing his place as first-choice at the Etihad, so should Arsenal be looking to strike a deal?
The England global has not featured in City’s past two encounters, with Willy Caballero featuring in the opening Premier League game and Champions League play-off tie.
Aguero had missed twice missed from the spot in Romania but added to his opening-day conversion in the Premier League by confidently driving the ball beyond 40-year-old former City keeper Shay Given.
Pep Guardiola says that Yaya Toure is still lacking the intensity to be considered for a Manchester City recall.
“I don’t want players to stay if they don’t want”.
“All the players here have a contract”.
“I don’t want to debate people’s situations at their club, or maybe a situation that’s been on-going for not just the last couple of weeks”. If they want to leave because they prefer to play every game – not only speaking about Joe, speaking about all the players at the club, the squad – (they can).
“I said to him that if he stays, he’s going to improve, to understand what we want from our goalkeeper”. “That is no doubt”. It (distribution) is an important factor, but you have to keep the ball out of the back of the net as well and that’s quite important when you’re talking about the goalkeeping position. “If he wants to be helped, we are going to help him”.
“Willy played these two games and right now is better”.
“But I won [with this style] as a football player and manager, and when we did that we scored a lot of goals and conceded few”.
They have all the things they need to be top class players, Sterling particularly, but I haven’t seen enough evidence of their talent. “He knows from the beginning what I feel and what is the situation”.
“It’s going to be very hard, so we have to be ready”, said Arnautovic. “And Shaqiri has the quality of a winger to go inside and can play at number 10 and the set-pieces”.
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Ahead of the Saturday lunchtime trip to Stoke City, live on Sky Sports, the Spaniard told Shreeves that he will not sacrifice build-up play for results, and wants to build a City side that is attractive, but has goal.
