“Guardiola’s teams can never be considered dead”

The future of Manchester City could be on the throne Premier League. The team of Pep Guardiola won at Arsenal and is at three points with one more game to play. Paolo Fernandes He knows the club perfectly. He went from playing with his friends in the streets of Zaragoza to signing for the Manchester City youth academy at the age of 15. “My agent showed me the teams that were interested in me… The Cityhe Arsenal and the Liverpool of the Premier and the Real Madrid and the Barcelona from Spain,” the Spanish striker confesses to MARCA.

When he headed to Manchester he coincided with several players born in Spain such as Aleix García, Angeliño, Manu García, Brahim Díaz or Pablo Maffeo. “The sports director was Little Begiristain. Spain had just won the World Cup a few years ago and Spanish football revalued much more“explains Paolo, the reserve team’s top scorer in the 2016/17 season.

Another cause of that Spanish fever at Manchester City was Pep Guardiola. The one from Santpedor arrived in 2016 and had Paolo in several training sessions. “There were two things that surprised me for the better of him. One was his gestures y chow do you explain everything so quickly and then how close he was with young people“, he declares.

It has been nine years since he left Manchester, but Paolo has fond memories of that time. “It changed my life“. He currently follows the ‘Citizen’ club and has no doubt that he could win the Premier League. “Now I see it very possible… Pep’s teams can never be considered dead,” he concludes about his time at City.

Pass through Holland and return to Spain

The first adventure in professional football for Paolo Fernandes was the NAC Breda Dutch with which he completely changed his lifestyle. “I went there with my family and it was a little bit out of my comfort zone.” His performance was marred by a series of injuries that also affected him during his time with the Castellon.

“When COVID happened, I wanted to return to Spain. It was good to come home, but things didn’t turn out as I expected,” about his Albinegra stage.

Enjoy football again in Greece

Paolo arrived at Cakes in the summer of 2021 and in Greece everything changed. “I felt very loved and luckily everything worked out.“, a performance that earned him interest from the Greek greats. Finally he ended up deciding on AEK Athens where he coincided with Matias Almeyda. “As a person he is a twelve, not a ten… The truth is that it is a shame that it did not happen in Seville,” he recalls.

Now it is on loan Al-Khaleej where you enjoy the hospitality of your city. “I asked a colleague where his cologne was from and he brought it to me the next day,” he says.

A future in Spain?

Paolo Fernandes’ contract expires at the end of the season, but he still belongs to AEK. Even so, he sees a future in Spain. “I don’t think so now, but At some point I would like to play for Zaragoza again.“When I was little I went as a ball boy to the first team and to the second if they let me,” he confesses. In addition, he longs for the team to remain in the Second Team. “That’s what I would like most, for them to be saved and to breathe,” he concludes.