{"id":274755,"date":"2020-10-27T13:55:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T12:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=274755"},"modified":"2020-10-27T13:58:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T12:58:37","slug":"marseille-vs-man-city-why-we-didnt-buy-striker-after-messi-deal-fell-through-guardiola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=274755","title":{"rendered":"Marseille vs Man City: Why we didn&#8217;t buy striker after Messi deal fell through &#8211; Guardiola"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester City boss, Pep Guardiola, has claimed they could not afford to add another striker to the squad in the summer.<br \/>\nGuardiola, speaking ahead of their Champions League trip to Marseille, said he wanted to bring in another forward in the class of Sergio Aguero and Gabriel Jesus.<br \/>\nCity were linked with a sensational move for Barcelona\u2019s Lionel Messi, after the Argentine declared his intentions to leave the Camp Nou.<br \/>\nHowever, a reunion with Guardiola fell through.<br \/>\nNow with Aguero and Jesus both facing spells on the sidelines with muscle injuries, Guardiola has revealed how he wanted to strengthen his striker but didn\u2019t have the funds to do so.<br \/>\n\u201cIf you decide to buy a striker, it has to be a striker in the league of Gabriel and Sergio but we cannot afford it. That is the reality.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m not saying the club didn\u2019t want to do it \u2013 they wanted to make as strong a team as possible. But we thought: \u201cOK, Sergio is back.\u201d We didn\u2019t expect Gabriel to be injured, sometimes it happens,\u201d he said.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City boss, Pep Guardiola, has claimed they could not afford to add another striker to the squad in the summer. Guardiola, speaking ahead of their Champions League trip to Marseille, said he wanted to bring in another forward in the class of Sergio Aguero and Gabriel Jesus. City were linked with a sensational move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,4368,8077],"class_list":["post-274755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-manchester-city","tag-pep-guardiola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}