By Football365
Published on 2025-11-25 22:17:00
Man City boss Pep Guardiola ‘gambled’ with his heavily rotated team selection against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League. But at the end of the day, it was still a £435million line-up.
Guardiola made ten changes to the team beaten 2-1 by Newcastle United on Saturday, bringing in James Trafford (£31m), Abdukodir Khusanov (£34m), John Stones (£50m), Nathan Ake (£41m), Rayan Ait-Nouri (£37m), Tijjani Reijnders (£47m), Rico Lewis (free), Oscar Bobb (free), Omar Marmoush (£59m) and Savinho (£34m), with Nico Gonzalez (£50m) the only survivor.
You can’t blame Guardiola for giving his back-up players a run-out, but such significant changes were always likely to lead to an incoherent performance, and that’s exactly what
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