has been warned Manchester Metropolis face extra Premier League fines following an astonishing £3m punishment for delaying kick-offs over the previous two seasons.
The size of Guardiola’s half-time staff talks brought on delays to matches final season, with the longest hold-up being 2min 24sec, which resulted within the membership being fined £1m on the finish of the marketing campaign.
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Metropolis had been additionally hit with a £2.09m positive within the 2023-24 season for 22 delays to their matches, with the Premier League insisting that kicking off on time helps “make sure the organisation of the competitors is ready on the highest doable skilled customary” and assists broadcasters.
Guardiola moved his Friday coaching session forward of this weekend’s journey to Newcastle as he was informed that holding his pre-match media duties after the Premier League’s 1.30pm cut-off would additionally end in a positive.
“We’re coaching later and if we prepare at 12 till 1.30, I can’t be right here [at the press conference] in time,” Guardiola, who modified his press convention to 9am, mentioned. “The Premier League don’t enable me at 2pm. The membership mentioned if I don’t begin by 2pm they may positive me or positive the membership.
“We paid some huge cash as I’m late at half-time, however once we performed within the Champions League last that they had a present earlier than the sport and they’re all the time late. They should positive the singers! That’s the reason I made a decision 9am and the journalists have had their breakfast and might want to take a espresso.
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“Typically I arrive one minute later however the guidelines are the principles. The Premier League is impeccable for that.”
Soccer organisers have beforehand invited criticism for punishing late kick-offs closely. In 2012, Metropolis had been fined €30,000 by Uefa for taking to the sector “as much as 60 seconds” late in opposition to Sporting Lisbon. The European governing physique had fined Porto €20,000 earlier within the season after Mario Balotelli was focused with racial abuse.
‘You don’t must be a mathematician to understand Haaland can be near Shearer document’
In the meantime, Guardiola has backed Erling Haaland to of 260 targets. The Metropolis striker can attain 100 targets at St James’ Park, the place Shearer has a statue and a bar in his title.
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“His [Shearer’s] high quality to attain targets in huge groups. He gained the Premier League, however not within the groups that everyone is aware of,” Guardiola mentioned. “The blokes who’ve been making numbers for a very long time, not only one or two seasons, I all the time admire them as a result of it means resilience and being there each season.
Erling Haaland scored his 99th Premier League purpose in opposition to Liverpool earlier than the worldwide break – Motion Photos through Reuters/Jason Cairnduff
“They don’t rating targets for one season. They do it over a variety of seasons and which means being extremely targeted, skilled and you need to love the sport. For Erling to be there with Alan Shearer is basically good for each of them.
“You don’t should know arithmetic to understand that if he [Haaland] stays a protracted, very long time and continues this common, he can be near Harry Kane and near Alan Shearer.”