Donough Holohan from Dublin spent 13 years at Manchester City helping to create an elite sporting environment. He has taken on a new challenge but he reflects on Pep Guardiola, Erling Haaland and why data has its limits.
Irish sports journalist Miguel Delaney has been at the forefront of challenging the dominance of state-owned football clubs in England. His book States of Play is a detailed study of how football became detached from its roots and if there is a path back.
If Manchester City are found guilty of the charges made against them, then they must be stripped of the titles they won.
Raheem Sterling's move to Chelsea and Manchester City's generally relaxed attitude to selling players to other Premier League clubs underlines once again the unbalanced nature of European football.
Manchester City have spent close to a billion pounds on Pep Guardiola's squad but there is always another piece in the jigsaw for the club that can have anything.
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