Pep Guardiola named eight changes for City's trip to Goodison Park and announced them beforehand, which is either refreshingly honest or a polite way of telling Everton they're a training session.
Erling Haaland stays home. The Champions League is next. The title race is next. The entire shape of City's season gets settled in the next ten days — and Guardiola is picking his squads like a man who knows exactly what order things come in.
Eight changes confirmed before kick-off. No spin, no rotation rhetoric, no "every game is important to us." Just a manager telling you what he's doing and why. Pep Guardiola has earned the right to be that direct, and he's using it.
Pep Guardiola named eight changes for City's trip to Goodison Park and announced them beforehand, which is either refreshingly honest or a polite way of telling Everton they're a training session.
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