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Eight changes. Pep's not hiding 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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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.

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