{"id":7965,"date":"2026-02-03T21:33:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/grumpy-guardiola-jokes-about-man-city-spending\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T21:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:03:50","slug":"grumpy-guardiola-jokes-about-man-city-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/grumpy-guardiola-jokes-about-man-city-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Grumpy&#8217; Guardiola jokes about Man City spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/topics\/clmm2zp829jt\">Shamoon Hafez<\/a>Manchester City reporter<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published19 minutes ago<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#comments\">35 Comments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pep Guardiola mischievously said he is &quot;a little bit sad and upset&quot; that Manchester City have only the seventh highest net spend on transfers in the Premier League over the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>City were <a href=\"\/sport\/football\/articles\/c30154v3r0zo\">the heaviest spenders in January<\/a> for a second year running, signing Antoine Semenyo and Marc Guehi for around \u00a384m after shelling out \u00a3180m last January.<\/p>\n<p>But City&#x27;s ability to generate money from sales has seen them bring in \u00a3550m over the last five years, according to numbers from Transfermarkt.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how much praise director of football Hugo Viana should be given for the transfer activity, Guardiola replied: &quot;Really good. Txiki [Bergiristain] before and Hugo now.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I am a little bit sad and upset because in net spend the last five years we are seventh in the Premier League. I want to be the first, I don&#x27;t understand why the club don&#x27;t spend more money. I am a little bit grumpy with them.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But like we won in the past because we spent a lot, now six teams have to win the Premier Leagues, Champions Leagues and FA Cups because they spend more in the last five years. These are facts. It&#x27;s not an opinion.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You can say an opinion, like you say you play good or bad against Spurs &#8211; we can agree or disagree. But they are facts. Good luck to the six teams who are in front of us for net spend for the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Let&#x27;s go. I&#x27;m waiting. That&#x27;s a nice quote, eh?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola and City failed to win a major trophy last season, but have claimed six of the past nine Premier League titles.<\/p>\n<p>City have broken the \u00a3100m mark once in their history to sign Jack Grealish from Aston Villa in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>But the club have recouped cash astutely in recent years, making more than \u00a3250m from the sale of academy products alone since 2020. <\/p>\n<p>Argentina forward Julian Alvarez joined Atletico Madrid from City in 2024 for a record \u00a381.5m, while Raheem Sterling&#x27;s move to Chelsea the previous summer fetched the club \u00a350m. <\/p>\n<h2>Who has the top net spend in last five years?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Manchester United (\u00a3675m)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Arsenal (\u00a3663m)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Chelsea (\u00a3651m)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Tottenham (\u00a3574m)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Newcastle (\u00a3424m)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Liverpool (\u00a3420m)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Manchester City (\u00a3396m)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*All figures according to transfermarkt.com<\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/teams\/manchester-city\">Manchester City<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\">Football<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/league-cup\">EFL Cup<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x27;Grumpy&#x27; Guardiola jokes about Man City spendingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Pep Guardiola joined Manchester City from Bayern Munich in 2016ByShamoon HafezManchester City reporte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}