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    Bernardo Silva is playing like a GEM at the moment – Craig Burley | ESPN FC
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    Bernardo Silva is playing like a GEM at the moment – Craig Burley | ESPN FC



    After watching an excerpt from an interview with Manchester City midfielder Bernardo Silva, ESPN FC’s Kay Murray, Don Hutchison, Craig Burley and Frank Leboeuf discuss how difficult it is for players to adjust and evolve all the time ahead of City’s FA Cup Final vs. Manchester United.

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    1. Brian Kin on

      I still remember Bernardo dribbling through all the players of Liverpool,must have been 4 or 5 of them,and they nearly scored because of that,it was brilliant.

    2. Rakibul Haque on

      Yes Haaland and KDB is amazing. But Man City has so many underrated players is just crazy. Rodri, Silva, Gundogan etc etc, just a phenomenal team.

    3. gajogrande on

      That interview was gold. More than stats like assists or goals you can tell Bernardo’s main asset is his football brain. I mean you don’t ask just any offensive player to play left back, or any other positions you often see Bernardo play at.

    7. Boopper on

      Most of city’s player would walk in any team in world football right now.

      Apart from Grealish, who plays in the same position as Vini n Mbappe, and maybe Ederson, I’d say City already have the best player in the world at that position.

    8. Diane Taylor on

      Innovative always changing, adjusting think developing systems player.

      Pepe gets the right players, & rotate.
      Even playing well, he’s always changing a player! predicting what other managers can’t. Forecasting

      Being very technical in his set ups, tactical awareness of the oppositions plans, or objectives .

      Klop is not in the same class, regardless the difference in money !

      123 years back we was challenging on a budget, the reason why LFC Failed wasn’t finance.

      Finance didn’t help us compete wise spending.

      Klop not investing when we was winning is why we fall now. How many players Pepe bought in 4 years Klop never reinvented his mid, only wanted to play vertical , one way?? After being dust out in CL he resides to return to Madrid with the same old players and playing style Trent senile out of position VVD Salah 150 games a season wile 29 yrs old 10000,2485 miles on the knock fabino.

      Who plays out the same team with no creative mid dinosaur set up every tear! The pressing game long ball hoof fs

      Reinvent the rass ting man

    13. Sahid Jabbie on

      Many, like Frank, are jealous of his successes and can't deal with the truth. He's just a top coach. The "lots of money" argument isn't entirely true. He brings out talented young players who were substitutes at their former clubs and turns them into world-class players. Examples of this: De Bruyne was a substitute at Wolfsburg after Chelsea failed to give a chance. Akanji, bench presser at Dortmund last season and a great player this year. Laporte, 5 years ago a young no name at Athletic Bilbao and now a top defender…list goes on. For several seasons he has been relying on players from his own academy, such as Phil Foden, Rico Lewis and Cole Palmer… What I like about him is that he has a fixed style of play that guarantees success. No matter how good or bad a player (Sterling, Otamendi, Zinchenko…) is, they all look good in his system.

    15. Fikile Mkhize on

      People have short memories. Silva has been great mostly in the second half of the season, but was below his usual standards before this year

    17. Kewon Crayton on

      Tossing money at the problem won’t make you an amazing team – look at PSG and Chelsea. It’s more than moneyball.

      Also, look at the transfer records of every dynastic team that we’ve had in this millennium; it doesn’t come cheap, clearly.

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