Manchester City midfielder Bernardo Silva has urged the club not to tear up everything and start again as it could be the ‘beginning of the end’.
Sport cover comments from the midfielder made today in an interview with DAZN in which he assesses Manchester City’s season and what they’re doing to rectify matters.
This season has proven to be a disaster for the Premier League champions as the injury to Rodri and several other issues have seen Pep Guardiola’s side collapse.
They now sit 20 points behind Premier League leaders Liverpool, battling to finish in the top four and dumped out of the Champions League unceremoniously by Real Madrid.
Questions are being raised about the future, with many believing that Pep Guardiola will need to see a massive overhaul of Manchester City’s squad in the summer and start again.
That was somewhat started in the January transfer window as they spent €218m to sign Omar Marmoush, Nico Gonzalez, Abdukodir Khusanov, Vitor Reis and Juma Bah.
More is expected in the summer alongside several favourites, such as Kevin de Bruyne, Ederson and even Silva himself moving on. The Portuguese midfielder, though, doesn’t want to see a major overhaul.
“It’s been a difficult season, very frustrating, because the level we had people used to was very high,” he said.
“Generations and cycles come to an end, obviously, because of age, because of the different stages of a career, and this club will need to renew itself.
Nobody has managed to win four Premier League titles in a row like we did last year, so obviously maintaining this level will always be difficult.
“We are trying to find different solutions, and I am sure that this club, in one way or another, will be very successful again in the future, but I hope it will be a bad six months, because it was a bad six months, and we have to accept that. But I hope that a bad six months doesn’t bring everything into question, because that would be the beginning of the end.”
