[TheAthletic] In Kalvin Phillips’ first few Man City training sessions, coaches felt Romeo Lavia was more suited to playing the holding midfield role than Phillips. Guardiola wanted Phillips to slow the game down and take the ball off the goalkeeper under pressure but he couldn’t do it consistently.

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1. Incredibly frustrating to be vindicated again after being told to shut up and trust the hierarchy. £60m down the drain.

2. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesnt

3. interesting detail on how he specifically didn’t work with how we play out from the back

4. It’s fine Lavia fee paid for Phillips ha ha haaa

5. He was never the city kind of player. I wish him all the best.

6. All I know is we signed Kalvin Phillips and immediately won the treble. I’m sorry but the analytics don’t lie