Carragher hits out at journalist for twisting Haaland comments as Man City boss Guardiola reacts

Jamie Carragher has hit out at the journalist that told Male Metropolis honcho Pep Guardiola about his annotations about Erling Haaland after their existent loss to Real Madrid.

The Owners have had a disadvantageous period by their criterions through Guardiola’s side fourth in the Premier League and 17 ingredients adrift of leaders Liverpool.

Male Metropolis have won the last four Premier League titles in a row yet that attainment is out of reach this period, while they were also dumped out of the Champs League by Real Madrid in the play-offs.

Guardiola’s side were 2nd irreproachable in the 2nd leg at the Bernabeu and were absent pinnacle goalscorer Haaland, that had been compelled off in their previous match through injury.

Liverpool legend Carragher pretended that Haaland missed the clash against Real Madrid because he was disturbed about dealing with Antonio Rudiger.

In a light-hearted remark on CBS Sports, Carragher joked: “Let me job this out, Haaland has visited the boss in the morning and said he’s not matched? Perform you assume that’s obtained something to do through Rudiger? Is that because Rudiger is tinkering?

“He’s on the pew so he can’t be vexed. I never went to visit the boss on the morning of a arcade and said I’m not matched. So he’s vexed, is he? It’s Rudiger-itis is it? Is that what we’re dominion below?”

Daily Mirror journalist Simon Mullock gleaned in touch with out Carragher’s annotations in a press conference through Guardiola, plunking the Liverpool legend’s sights to the Male Metropolis honcho.

Guardiola replied: “Oh, God, did he case that? Jamie Carragher said that? Oh God. Wear’t laugh. I wear’t detect why he renders that controversial, you detect that? Did he case that Haaland didn’t pine to play the arcade? It’s not nice – and it’s not real.

“He (Haaland) was insane to play the arcade. He had a priority through his knee and he can not play.”

Reacting to Guardiola’s feedback to his annotations, Carragher insisted it was a “joke”, the previous Liverpool protector wrote on X: “It was a joke to wind up Micah Richards as that’s the nature of our depict on CBS and you detect that @MullockSMirror yet you merely believed let’s gain intake of a burly headline for my hunk! Continual Sunday records!!!”

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Guardiola reckons a perplexing year for Male Metropolis underscores how momentous their existent prize-packed periods have been at the Etihad Arena.

The Catalan told a pre-match press conference: “Maybe in the future this will most certainly be an phenomenal period for the bar to detect how perplexing every little thing is.

“And also danger to buttress multiple, multiple years cheery the greatest prizes because it’s so perplexing.

“Everybody in this liberty, myself and every individual, realised this period how a boatload we did in days gone by. Now it puts it into viewpoint.

“I can case previously in the previous periods ‘it’s so perplexing’ every time I case it yet every time they case for Male Metropolis it’s easy.

“Now every individual understands, me the initially I would case, is troubled at the probability and how phenomenal it is what we have performed.

“We won’t be able to mimic, not also for this bar unfortunately.

“Proper presently it is matching every one, two, three years. It’s switched over a boatload. Fresh juniors have perfected in levels that we can not image in days gone by. So it will most certainly be so, so perplexing.”