Ian Wright: “You have to say, it might be easier for Pep Guardiola in what he’s done, but Jurgen Klopp’s still got to get a lot of love. It’s there for everyone to see in respect of trophies, but we can’t speak about Manchester City without speaking about the fact there’s 115 charges around them.”
by TheBiasedSportsLover
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The full transcript of Ian Wright speaking about Man City’s 115 charges as the ‘elephant in the room’
>”You look at the trophy haul and you have to say that Pep’s done very well. But then you look at what Klopp’s done to try to catch Manchester City, the way he’s built that team, how long it’s taken them to get there,” he told Sky Sports.
>”You have to say, it might be easier for Pep in what he’s done, but Klopp’s still got to get a lot of love. It’s there for everyone to see in respect of trophies but we can’t speak about City without speaking about the fact there’s 115 charges around them.
>”The one thing I would like more than anything else is for that to be gone so you can give the team and the manager the love they deserve. You speak about them and it’s like there’s an elephant in the room.
>”You want to speak about them, with this rivalry, without saying ‘yeah….’, it’s not fair on the players, it’s not fair on the club. The sooner that’s gone, the better for them, but you can’t look at the amount of trophies and say that Guardiola’s not done better.”
The charges shouldn’t at all diminish how Pep has had this team playing since he arrived and his evolution of styles time after time. He’s one of if not the greatest football tactician we’ve ever seen. Yes, you can argue without cheating he couldn’t bring in the guys he did blah blah blah, but for me what they’ve done on the pitch shouldn’t be slighted by the charges.
But you can’t ignore that the foundation of City when Pep arrived was built on cheating and these charges.
These two things shouldn’t be talked about in the same sentence imo.
It reminds me of the old Ferguson vs. Wenger debates. Fergie was more successful, undoubtedly, but what Wenger did especially after 2006 and the Emirates build was success of a different kind.
It’s a football purist argument. If you watch football and only value trophies then there’s no competition between Klopp and Pep. But if you love the romanticism of a story then it becomes a completely different argument.
And that’s Ian’s last appearance for Sky after mentioning the Elephant in the room.
Klopp has spent his fair share and manages a team with around a £600m a year turnover.
This isn’t a Leicester/Montpellier/Levekusen story no matter how many times pundits and the media try to spin it as such.
Et tu, Wrighty?
Yup, and any discussion about Pep at City that doesn’t mention the 115 charges is not an honest one.
Liverpool (**£664m**)……its not like Liverpool’s squad is worth 20 pounds…can these pundits use their brains for once
Wright is being kind here.
And he’s still showing more balls than most other commentators on tv these days who talk about city as if it’s all normal
Wrighty is the best pundit going. Bar none
Pep couldn’t even make UCL final with Bayern while Klopp did it with Dortmund and Liverpool 3 times
It’s not apple to apple comparison when a financial unfair practice is in a club. The club in question doesn’t have one but whooping 115 violations. Crazy…