straight to your inboxWhen the word holistic started to be bandied about at Manchester City in 2013, it felt like a way of drawing a line between the eras of Roberto Mancini and Manuel Pellegrini.
More specifically, a line from the manager getting papped having bust-ups at Carrington with players to the manager making sure there was nothing of note to report from Carrington whatsoever.
The change in first team coach at the same time as the new branding somewhat muddied the greater transformation going on at the club.
A prominent idea was for every youth team to play in the same way as the senior side, so that promising prospects would more easily be able to make the step up to the first team squad.
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