Manchester City welcomes the loan that gives James Mcatee this month, however, his hat-trick in the weekend is probably to guarantee interest for him until the end of the move window.
The Mcatee scenario at the Etihad stadium is desirable inside and outside the field. City has had such bad difficulties at the end of 2024, winning only once in thirteen games (a patch that would not yet end despite 3 consecutive victories), a wonderful mysterious manager Pep Guardiola, a clear use of McTee manager Pep Guardiola .
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The contract interviews took their position at the end of summer after Guardiola and the Txiki Begirista football director convinced Mcatee that he would have a possibility this season, however, he was not offered concrete. With its agreement expired in 18 months, the limited game time and the city proceed to Frankfurt striker, Omar Marmoush, it is not unexpected that the clubs are running.
The or 22 years, who joined the city academy at age 10, decided opposite to Salford City in the FA Cup on Saturday, but it is his first game, and only the fifth appearance, from the adjustment of the Carabao Cup In Tottenham Hotspur at the end of October, the first defeat of the city of the season and the first attack of his disastrous race.
For a long time there has been a cry among the enthusiasts to have an adequate race in the team, for many reasons. Mainly because the maximum of his teammates has been injured, in a mediocre and / or exhausted form, but also due to Guardiola’s preseason statements that would have opportunities.
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However, in the 12 games that followed this adjustment to the Spurs, the bank left twice, for 21 minutes opposed to Feyenoord and a minute opposite to Nottingham Forest.
A great advance would have happened instead of Leicester City the day after Christmas: arrived here with 24 minutes to do it and encouraged the goal of the city, won a positive complaint of Guardiola and convinced those who sought to see him much earlier They were surely where they were. good.
“I know it is unfair to say because I asked him to remain and I didn’t give him the minimums he deserves,” said Guardiola later. “Yes, it’s quite fair, it’s true, but I had the feeling that this guy could play with us. “
Despite this, he returned to the little convincing victory opposite to West Ham United a week later and only did 10 minutes to travel, after City was 4-1.
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The limited opportunities of McAtee have a hot topic among the city’s enthusiasts and for the new and new people who can the team, necessarily all achieve a consensus that deserves to play more, but in part, the opposite time to Salfordary that seemed Guardiola Not to use it, whatever they are. They were more understandable.
The midfielder despite everything had an opposite game to a Ligue Two team, but had fought to enter the adjustment and the opportunity was to pass it.
“I was frustrated in the first part that I didn’t see a lot of ball,” he told BBC Sport later.
Full time, however, had noted his first purpose for the club and added two others.
“When the first entered, I felt relieved, then my confidence in the position and the ball continued to see me and kept scoring,” he continued.
Guardiola, of course, had also seen the first part of difficulties.
“I will not deny how satisfied I am,” said the manager of his press conference. “It is not simple to mark a hat-trick, but you can play better. The first part is not the best. “
The head of the city also echoed his compliment after Leicester’s party, when he congratulated his appearance through the club academy at the same time as several other players who have since demonstrated their promise for other clubsatray
“The generation of Morgan Rogers, Cole Pale, Liam Deap, Romeo Lavia, Jadon Sancho,” he continued. “All players who play very well in the Premier League. “He is an important player there and captain and fanatic of the city. “
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The fear for city enthusiasts now, and others inside the club, is that McAtee follows the lines of those players in Brilliant in other places.
The bad career of City has introduced almost everything in the club a microscope, adding the quality of the existing players, the control of the Guardiola crisis, the recruitment strategy and their sales of young talents.
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These had been in the past praised due to the great sums brought and, it should already be said that there had not been a position in the team even for Palmer, since Phil Foden and Riyad Mahrez discovered that the time they would have sought as the city driven for triple in 2023, the year Palmer left.
But it will have been painful for the club to have to plan a redesign of the team of the long -term movement windows when those precise players that Guardiola discussed, with the imaginable exception of Sancho, would be more better for them.
The Bundesliga groups show an interest in McAtee this month and, since there is no contract on the table, it is difficult to believe this last graduate of the academy that takes the route foden instead of Palmer, Lavia or Deap.
The McAtee has already demonstrated its determination to play through consecutive walks, either in Sheffield United, and a season of surveillance of the city’s touch, even when they are through the lowest era of the Guardiola era, the race Long is in Etihad.
Only a sustained race in the team is probably to stay in the club. Given Guardiola’s comments about his talents and his ability to the team, he assumes that they will stay.
January can also be an attractive month for Mcatee, so it would be that a serious measure that is offered is before its next game. If so, what?
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