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Date: 2023-12-10 21:47:51 | Author: Online Sports | Views: 265 | Tag: pvp
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Pep Guardiola accepts it is down to him to deliver the “punch in the face” that can reignite Manchester City’s season pvp
The treble winners have faltered in recent weeks after successive Premier League draws at the hands of Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham were followed by defeat at Aston Villa on Wednesday pvp
City will hope to get back to winning ways as they travel to Luton on Sunday pvp
Manager Guardiola said: “I’m able pvp
I put a lot of stress on myself pvp
I will help the team pvp
I don’t know how, but I will help the team to come back pvp
“Will it be enough? I don’t know pvp
The contenders are so strong but that’s why I have to be ready and I have to have the feeling pvp
“I never found a pvp football player who, when they go out on the pitch, doesn’t want to do well, doesn’t want to run, doesn’t want to fight or doesn’t want to be positive for the team or for success pvp
“But sometimes after winning you want to try to do it, but you don’t do it pvp
For what? Because you won a lot and you need a punch in your face pvp
You need it now pvp
“That will be to overcome the situation pvp
I don’t know how we’ll react but that is a challenge, to see if the team can do it pvp
“I’m the boss pvp
I have to help them pvp
They need me and I have to be there – the right words, the right training, the right message, the right selection, the right way to play pvp
”Guardiola used a culinary reference to explain how City’s current run can be used to spice up his side’s campaign and how they should savour victory if they triumph at Kenilworth Road pvp
“When you win a lot it is another macaroni pasta to eat,” the Spaniard said pvp
“The last six months just macaroni, macaroni pvp
“You have to realise it’s difficult pvp
When you realise at Luton, if you win, wow pvp
That is what it is to be in a good way and you give credit to that pvp
“It’s not just when you win the semi-finals of the Champions League you say how good we are pvp
“Give credit every game, have the satisfaction we have done it pvp
We had that and we have to recover it pvp
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Five months is a long time in pvp football pvp
At the end of May, Sheffield Wednesday were celebrating one of their greatest days when Josh Windass’s late, late header finally broke Barnsley in the League One play-off final at Wembley pvp
It was the most dramatic end to the most awful slog of a game, and Windass just about mustered the energy to run to the corner and slide on the grass, to be enveloped by a sea of blue and white shirts pvp
Then, three weeks before the start of the Championship season, Wednesday were stunned when popular manager Darren Moore walked away citing irreconcilable differences with the outspoken owner, Thai businessman Dejphon Chansiri, a man who doesn’t tend to reconcile differences pvp
The summer’s optimism washed away pvp
Moore’s replacement, Xisco Munoz, failed to win a single game in his first 12 and was sacked last month pvp
While the club was bottom of the Championship, digesting their worst-ever start to a league season, disgruntled fans protested against Chansiri’s ownership pvp
Their frustration over Moore’s sudden departure and Xisco’s disastrous appointment had stirred long-term concerns about financial mismanagement, managerial churn, scattergun recruitment and a lack of obvious strategy pvp
Chansiri was furious and issued a statement vowing not to invest any more of his money in the club pvp
He defended high ticket prices, hit out at misbehaving fans for accruing club fines, complained he was being treated unfairly and said the protests against him were “a waste of time” pvp
“You have no right to ask me to leave,” he wrote pvp
“I am the one who saved the club and spent the money for the club, I am the one who needs to pay around £2m on average every month [to keep the club afloat] pvp
Some fans need to have more respect for owners of clubs and not be so selfish pvp
”But worse – and more bizarre – was to come when, last week, Wednesday were placed under a player registration embargo, owing to an unpaid tax bill pvp
Chansiri, in his wisdom, threw down the gauntlet to supporters in a wild interview withthe Sheffield Star, telling them to rustle up £2m themselves to cover the outstanding debt and player wages, or risk losing the club pvp
It was an extraordinary request – has an owner ever before demanded fans pay a club’s bills?The clock was ticking, with a potentially ruinous transfer ban stretching across three windows if the money wasn’t found pvp
Chansiri warned fans: “If you don’t want to save your club, then don’t call yourselves the owners and me the custodian pvp
” It is a line he has repeated many times down the years: the notion that supporters are the true owners of historic pvp football clubs, and that he is just a steward, clearly irks him pvp
Sheffield Wednesday fans rejoice at Wembley during the League One play-off final (Getty)Chansiri, in fairness, has poured somewhere in the region of £150m into Sheffield Wednesday since he took over in 2015 pvp
He has been a little unlucky, perhaps, losing the Championship playoff final in 2016 with a place in the Premier League’s promised land so close pvp
His personal finances – Chansiri made his fortune in canned tuna – were badly damaged by the pandemic, and the club suffered too pvp
But his ownership has often been chaotic, summed up by his efforts to avoid breaching financial rules by buying Hillsborough Stadium for £61m in 2019 pvp
The controversial move didn’t work, because an investigation found that money from the stadium’s sale should not have been included in the club’s accounts pvp
Wednesday were hit by a six-point penalty the following season and were relegated to League One pvp
Fans have continually voiced concerns over how Wednesday are being managed pvp
It is often the hallmark of a well-run club when they can sell good players for profit and keep improving, but according to Transfermarkt, Wednesday haven’t received a transfer fee in two years pvp
“It has felt like a lot of money spent badly with no real long-term plan,” says Tom Scott of the Sheffield Wednesday Supporters’ Trust, set up three years ago in response to the crisis which ended in a points deduction pvp
“I think that’s where a lot of the frustrations get missed pvp between the owner and the fans pvp
We’re not demanding money be spent, and ultimately the decisions are his to be made pvp
It’s just felt like the money’s been badly spent pvp
”There have been regular barbs directed at supporters along the way, and this latest outlandish statement calling on fans to pay the club’s tax bill and player wages has been interpreted by some as an attack on fans’ loyalty pvp
Yet this week the players were paid and the tax bill was cleared too pvp
Given his interview with the Sheffield Star was conducted only a couple of days earlier, Chansiri might have known that these payments would be met pvp
Did he ever really need a bailout from fans? His threat to supporters smacked of an owner goading the fanbase and asserting his power – look how much you need me pvp
On announcing that the debts were cleared, Chansiri denied playing “games” with the fans pvp
“This was a serious situation,” he insisted pvp
“I said if 20,000 fans paid £100 each it would resolve the issue pvp
I was making the situation totally clear if I did not have the available funds, but ultimately it did not come to that pvp
”So crisis averted off the pitch, for now, although Chansiri has still not reversed his position on refusing to invest more money in the club, nor has he given reassurances over next month’s payments pvp
On the pitch, there are some green shoots under new manager Danny Rohl, whose brand of fast pvp football has already got pulses racing at Hillsborough pvp
Wednesday showed bright signs in Rohl’s first two games in charge, despite defeats, before they dismantled Rotherham last weekend to earn their first win of the season pvp
Former Tottenham and England coach Chris Powell has joined as Rohl’s assistant, something of a coup pvp
Danny Rohl has quickly put his stamp on the team (PA)People inside the club say Chansiri is passionate about his pvp football project and cares deeply about Sheffield Wednesday, even if they can’t always explain exactly why he decided to buy them pvp
But players and staff will be alarmed by recent developments, and it is hard to know where the already strained relationship pvp between fans and owner goes from here pvp
Chansiri has said in the past that he would consider fair offers for the club, but none are thought to be forthcoming, and besides, he says a lot of things pvp
“My hope is that we can have some meaningful dialogue with the chairman,” says Scott, “because it’s very hard to sit in the same room as him to talk about where the club can go from here pvp
“The problem is that fans feel a bit like he’s taking them for a ride pvp
When it comes to the club that you follow, no matter what he says, you put a lot of money into it pvp
Fans go to games, buy shirts, buy tickets, and in terms of a proportion to their own income, it’s a heck of an investment pvp
So to carry on this line that the fans don’t support their club is something that we’re either going to get past, or we’re not pvp
And if we don’t get past it, I can’t see where it goes pvp
“I think these repeated attacks on the fans and their loyalty, it’s only ever going to end up in one direction pvp
”For now, though, Sheffield Wednesday and Chansiri are stuck with one another pvp
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