“In my career, when I don’t get the results I want, I am the first to be self-critical”, Pellegrini said.
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Albion’s stewards, reluctant to let Sterling get too near to the stand, provided more resistance than the West Bromwich defence in a match that City dominated from start to finish and cantered to a 3-0 victory.
“It is easy for good players to settle in a good team”.
At this point you’d have to wager that Raheem Sterling has the most timid drug problem in the history of football as a professional sport, with the Manchester City player’s £125,000 Mercedes C63 AMG having been found abandoned after being involved in a auto crash, with canisters filled with the legal high found inside of it. You must analyse your work.
Not only does the third-year manager, who won a Premier League championship in his own debut season at the Etihad, face constant questions about his own future with the seemingly ceaseless rumors that his bosses are pursuing current Bayern Munich and former Barcelona Manager Pep Guardiola – Pellegrini now must deal with the Sterling issue.
“The biggest thing to improve is defensively”, Fernandinho said.
“And, of course, that includes myself as part of my role in midfield. I believe we have learned the lesson and I’m confident the new season will be much better”. It may not be the last managerial surprise we see from City between now and then.
Only a year ago, City had an enviable stable of four proven strikers, but Alvaro Negredo is now at Valencia, Stevan Jovetic is on loan at Inter Milan and Edin Dzeko could be days away from signing for AS Roma. Frank Lampard, meanwhile, has ended his one-year stay at the club to make a belated start to life in the MLS with New York City.
After an inconsistent preseason, the season has finally began for Manchester City.
“We are trying to have a strong squad – we’ll see at the end of August how strong we will be”.
But City remain vulnerable to every creak and niggle in Vincent Kompany’s increasingly fragile frame, and they always look a very different team without their captain.
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And Pellegrini reckons, after a stuttering season last year, Ivory Coast star Toure will shine again following a dominant display at The Hawthorns.
