Pep Guardiola answered a question nobody was able to answer concerning his future at club 

Pep Guardiola answered a question nobody was able to answer concerning his future at club

Manchester City face Wolves in the Premier League on Sunday and here are your latest headlines.

Manchester City are back in Premier League action tomorrow as they travel to Molineux to face Wolves.

 

 

City will be hoping to leapfrog Liverpool with Arne Slot’s side not playing until 4.30pm. However, it won’t be an easy afternoon for the Blues after they were beaten by Wolves in this fixture last season.

 

That being said, Sunday’s opponents have had an awful start to the season and so City will be hopeful of securing all three points. Ahead of a big game for City, here’s a look at the latest headlines.

 

Pep on future

It has been an eventful two weeks since Pep Guardiola last faced questions from journalists.

 

News broke of an approach from the Football Association this summer over the vacant England job. A day later Thomas Tuchel was confirmed as Gareth Southgate’s successor, but not before it had sparked a national debate and body language experts had been ‘convinced’ that Guardiola had given the game away on an Italian chat show that he would be England manager.

 

The manager insists, as he did on that show, that he has not made his mind up on what to do after this season. And after telling reporters on Friday that the club have not asked him for a deadline on his future, he went further by insisting that if he had thought his indecision was affecting the club he would respond to that.

 

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City given clear Grealish benefit

Stuart Pearce hailed Lee Carsley for getting ‘hurting’ Jack Grealish back to his best.

 

City ace Grealish, 29, netted the opener in England’s 3-1 Nations League win against Finland last weekend after being left out of Gareth Southgate’s Euro 2024 squad in the summer. The current City man was vocal in his disappointment with that decision but after an energetic all-action performance in Helsinki, looks to be relishing his role back on the international stage.

 

Interim head coach and Birmingham-born Carsley, who will be succeeded by Thomas Tuchel in January, brought Grealish back into the fold and has helped restore his confidence after a difficult few months. Carsley, 50, has come under criticism for his muddled messages with the media when it came to discussing his desire to succeed Southgate on a permanent basis.

 

Pep Guardiola’s side were beaten at Molineux last season / Gareth Copley/GettyImages

Manchester City are eased back into Premier League action with a trip to bottom-of-the-table Wolves on Sunday afternoon.

 

 

It’s not been all plain sailing for the perennial champions at the start of 2024/25, with a couple of draws ensuring that Liverpool lead the way at this early stage.

 

Pep Guardiola is still figuring out how to mitigate the absence of midfield lynchpin Rodri, while Kevin De Bruyne has also been sidelined for almost a month. There was plenty of discussion over the manager’s future during the recent break, but Guardiola will doubtlessly be solely focused on securing all three points on Sunday and the Spaniard will be thrilled that his squad returned from international duty injury-free.

 

Here’s the team he could pick for Sunday’s trip to Molineux.

 

 

Jack Grealish will likely share minutes with Jeremy Doku / Gareth Copley/GettyImages

GK: Ederson – The Brazilian made a few headlines during the break as he speculated over Guardiola’s future, but do we really think Ederson knows who the Spaniard’s successor will be?

 

 

RB: Rico Lewis – Lewis is slowly usurping Kyle Walker as Guardiola’s preferred choice at right-back with the veteran defender only becoming more unreliable.

 

CB: Manuel Akanji – The stout Swiss defender often goes under the radar, but he’s a key figure in this City backline and he should assume a starting role on Sunday.

 

CB: Ruben Dias – Guardiola has John Stones available this weekend, but he’ll likely retain the Akanji-Dias partnership. The Portuguese international will see plenty of towering Wolves forward Jorgen Strand Larsen.

 

 

LB: Josko Gvardiol – The nifty operator has not yet produced the attacking returns we saw down the stretch last season, but he’s arguably been among City’s standout performers this term. Gvardiol is a crucial presence down the left.

 

 

CM: Mateo Kovacic – The Croatian star doesn’t score many, but it was his brace which helped City to three points against Fulham last time out. Kovacic, of course, has huge boots to fill.

 

CM: Ilkay Gundogan – Gundogan has starred in a deeper position before, and he’ll get plenty of minutes alongside Kovacic in Rodri’s absence. The German was excellent in City’s 4-0 thumping of Slovan Bratislava before the break.

 

 

RM: Savinho – City have struggled from time to time against deep-lying defences, but Savinho has often been the primary prober. The Brazilian has settled in ever so quickly and could start ahead of Bernardo Silva at Molineux.

 

 

AM: Phil Foden – After a subdued international break, Foden will look to kick his season into gear starting this weekend.

 

LM: Jack Grealish – Grealish was on the scoresheet for England on Sunday, and Guardiola will want the low sock-donning wide man to carry that bright form into the next few weeks with City’s schedule only increasing in demand.

 

ST: Erling Haaland – Haaland was shackled by Craig Dawson in this fixture last season, but he made up for that quiet display by bagging four in the reverse fixture. He’ll want to see Dawson again on Sunday.