Never make decisions on a Monday. That's the mantra of Manchester City's moneyman to ensure that unlike, for example, Arsenal, the Blues are obsessed with not getting obsessed about a particular moment, victory or defeat to the point that the emotions affect the reason.
Over nearly a decade, it has helped Ferran Soriano to oversee record prosperity at the Etihad and filled the trophy cabinet.
City have to make decisions this Monday though, having already made decisions this month that they didn't want to. The club wanted to start the rebuild of the team last summer but Pep Guardiola was convinced that his squad had one last fight in them and, not expecting the manager to still be at the club for the 2025/26 season, they held off.
The first 20 minutes at home to Arsenal in September appeared to prove Guardiola's point, with the hosts steamrollering their biggest title challenger for the last two years with a furious intensity and quality.
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