{"id":5570,"date":"2023-12-06T09:02:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T09:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-massive-miss-merson-reveals-man-city-guardiola-made-mistake-by-allowing-midfielder-leave-club\/"},"modified":"2023-12-06T09:02:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T09:02:40","slug":"epl-massive-miss-merson-reveals-man-city-guardiola-made-mistake-by-allowing-midfielder-leave-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-massive-miss-merson-reveals-man-city-guardiola-made-mistake-by-allowing-midfielder-leave-club\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Massive miss \u2013 Merson reveals Man City, Guardiola made mistake by allowing midfielder leave club"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Arsenal legend Paul Merson has suggested that Manchester City and their manager, Pep Guardiola, made a mistake by allowing midfielder Ilkay Gundogan to leave the club on a free transfer to Barcelona in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Merson believes Gundogan\u2019s departure may \u2018come back to bite them\u2019 in the title race this season.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the 33-year-old was massive for Man City because he won them the Premier League title in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be honest \u2013 Ilkay Gundogan has been a massive miss so far,\u201d Merson told Sportskeeda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s scored so many important goals for City, and they would not have won the league without him. I thought it was phenomenal for them to let him leave on a free transfer, and it might come back to bite them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gundogan was Guardiola\u2019s first signing for Man City back in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The German midfielder captained Man City to win the treble last season.<\/p>\n<p>He made 100 goal contributions across 304 appearances for City, and many were surprised that the Citizens allowed him to leave Etihad.<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Massive miss \u2013 Merson reveals Man City, Guardiola made mistake by allowing midfielder leave club<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal legend Paul Merson has suggested that Manchester City and their manager, Pep Guardiola, made a mistake by allowing midfielder&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,1992,1031,2307,15,160],"tags":[1033,156,1994,202,2308,180,201],"class_list":["post-5570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epl","category-guardiola","category-man-city","category-merson","category-news","category-sport","tag-city","tag-epl","tag-guardiola","tag-man","tag-merson","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}