Sending Joao Cancelo on loan to Bayern Munich? Madness. Dropping Kevin De Bruyne for a game you need to win to move within two points of Arsenal? Madness.
Asking 18-year-old Rico Lewis to constantly receive the ball on the half-turn while Tottenham’s pressers lurk like vultures? Madness. And it led to the winning goal from Harry Kane at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Pep Guardiola is trying very hard to come across as the mad professor with the decisions he’s making and, right now, they aren’t doing Manchester City much good. His side aren’t carrying that air of superiority we’ve seen from them in the past.
They don’t look like the City slickers who’ve won four of the last five Premier League titles and that’s a big concern for those of a sky-blue persuasion.
Arsenal lost to Everton on Saturday and yet City didn’t seize their opportunity on Sunday like champions-in-waiting should. Lewis is neat and tidy, young and talented, keen and confident, but City are asking a lot of this academy kid.
