Manchester City along with their neighbours Manchester United and Paris Saint Germain are reportedly keeping an eye on Marco Asensio.
Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City are in seriously frightening form. The Citizens are playing the best possible football in Europe at the moment. They are dispatching sides with absolute ease and the fluidity in attack looks unstoppable. The Citizens have scored 37 goals in 10 matches since the market shut and with Aguero returning from a freak injury, it is safe to say that City are yet to hit top gear.
The stylish, fluid attacking football included wins over sides like defending league champions Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and a 5-0 drubbing of Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool. The last to last time out, they thrashed Stoke City 7-2 in a match where they could have scored more goals and last week they dispatched Burnley 3-0.
The team is so heavily armed that the likes of Ilkay Gundogan and Bernardo Silva have to be content with just playing as substitutes. Although, Pep is likely to rotate his squad over the next few weeks again, as he has always been known to be a manager who uses an entire squad to keep players fresh and motivated.
Not so long ago, Manchester City defeated Italian table-toppers Napoli who have been unbeaten in Serie A so far. Although Pep’s men won the match by a margin of goal, the 2-1 result was not a fair reflection of the match. Pep’s men dominated the first half and could have outclassed and killed off the match by end of 45 minutes itself.
Instead, his team had to hold on to their nerves to see off a late Napoli flourish to claim all three points. In this match, we saw the other aspect to the team, the ability to win matches by tightening the screws at the back to keep a free-flowing side like Napoli out.
They also have a host of attacking midfielders in the form of Leroy Sane, Raheem Sterling, Bernardo Silva, David Silva, Kevin De Bruyne to mention a few.
Marco Asensio, on the other hand, has been in imperious form. The young Spaniard came to the foray under the tutelage of Zinedine Zidane and has gone on to make a name for himself after scoring in the El Classico and going on to play for Spain in the national set-up.
Asensio is becoming a regular midfielder in the Real starting XI and will hope to go on to make it big for the Galacticos. Ideally, he is set for a long lengthy club career at Real but in football, you can never say never and with Real Madrid, they have a history of remorselessly cutting loose of players.
Should the young Spaniard suffer a bad patch, Pep may come calling for the left-footed dribbler to replace the ageing David Silva at Manchester City. But is Asensio a good fit for Pep?
