Bernardo Silva Why Man City are yet to see the best of ‘bargain’ Bernardo Silva Sam Lee Last updated 1 year ago 20:15 11/24/17 FacebookTwitterRedditcopy Comments(3) Getty Images Manchester City Raheem Sterling Guardiola İ. Gündoğan Kevin De Bruyne Sergio Agüero Yaya Touré Leroy Sané Premier League City coaches have been impressed with the playmaker’s individual talent but believe he is taking a while to learn Pep Guardiola’s specific principles Manchester City were very pleased with themselves at the start of the summer. Within days of the end of last season they had agreed deals for two key figures in the Pep Guardiola revolution, and they were letting people know about it.Were it not for a journalist happening to board the same flight to Manchester as Bernardo Silva, City would have had the bonus of becoming the first club in years to pull off a major transfer without the press getting wind of it. Bernardo 7/5 to net vs. Terriers Article continues below Editors’ Picks Lyon treble & England heartbreak: The full story behind Lucy Bronze’s dramatic 2019 Liverpool v Man City is now the league’s biggest rivalry and the bitterness is growing Megan Rapinoe: Born & brilliant in the U.S.A. A Liverpool legend in the making: Behind Virgil van Dijk’s remarkable rise to world’s best player Given most major deals become very public sagas months before completion, it was a disappointment for the club that they could not #announcesilva completely out of the blue on a Friday evening.It’s official. @BernardoCSilva will join City on July 1st! #WelcomeBernardo https://t.co/dWswQzTPYB — Manchester City (@ManCity) May 26, 2017 But they were still very pleased themselves. With Silva in the bag, they quickly reached a breakthrough in their pursuit of Benfica goalkeeper Ederson, and were it not for a paperwork issue he would’ve signed the other side of the weekend. Not a bad start to a crucial transfer window, and certainly a statement of intent.Yet it was the money spent that most pleased City officials. They were keen to point out that Silva cost just £43 million, which did seem a little low for one of Europe’s brightest prospects, even a couple of months before Neymar blew up the market. And although eyebrows were raised at Ederson’s £35m fee, making him the second costliest goalkeeper in history, City were telling people they had secured two ‘bargains’.That did come back to bite them a couple of months down the line; Spurs chairman Daniel Levy got wind of what he deemed to be boasting on City’s part, and effectively told them, ‘if £35m for a young goalkeeper with fewer than 100 senior games under his belt is a bargain, then what’s Kyle Walker worth to you?’. After Dani Alves’ snub made the situation all the more tricky for City, Levy managed to get £54m out of them. Monaco saw the Walker fee and quickly demanded similar for Benjamin Mendy, so perhaps lessons need to be learned behind the scenes.Yet given City’s incredible results and performances, and another profitable set of accounts, few will care about all that now. Walker and Mendy have already proving to be big hits (even if the latter has mainly boosted morale from the sidelines), while Ederson is bringing the attributes Claudio Bravo was supposed to bring.The Brazilian has exceeded all expectations and could indeed already be regarded as a bargain. Silva, however, has had a slower start to life. Much like Leroy Sane a year ago, there is a distinct feeling that the best is yet to come. In fact, at several stages last season there were a large number of City fans wondering why the best part of £40m had been spent on the German when full-backs were so clearly needed. Nobody is questioning the winger now, of course, and it is partly because of his fine form, as well as Raheem Sterling’s improvement and the continued brilliance of Kevin De Bruyne and David Silva, that there has been considerably less pressure on Silva.The 23-year-old has not been helped by the fact he only started training with City in August, after the club’s pre-season tour. It is clear that the vast majority of City’s players are carrying out Guardiola’s orders better this season, and as the Catalan explained this week it is during the summer that he works hardest on tactical drills.“In pre-season people think about physical preparation, but that is when you have to look at the tactics,” he told a press conference. “That is when you have to forget about runs, and think about tactics.”Silva, thanks to his involvement with Portugal at the Confederations Cup, would have missed a lot of important information. Adapting to a new club in a new league is another obvious hurdle. But while it is completely understandable that he cannot yet do what Guardiola wants as well as those who were at the club last season, it has been noted behind the scenes that the playmaker is taking a little longer to get it than most.As a potentially surprising example, the club’s English players are said to have picked things up much quicker, whether Sterling last season or Walker this. And Silva’s case is not entirely comparable to Sane’s early struggles; Guardiola and his staff believed it was a lack of confidence that held the winger back, not a lack of understanding. Not that there is a major issue with Silva; the City coaches are genuinely pleased with his contribution to the team so far, and are particularly happy with his individual talent; how he can destabilise teams with dribbles or passes.But they want to see a better grasp of the classic Guardiola ‘positional play’ principles; particularly his reading of the game so he takes up the right positions in regards to his team-mates. “Bernardo is a player who never plays bad,” Guardiola said, rather generously, following City’s 1-0 win over Feyenoord on Tuesday. “He makes little mistakes with the ball or in taking decisions, but he is probably the guy who runs the most.”He is clever and intelligent, a player who is clear inside or outside. He does not have the speed of Raz or Leroy, for example, but he is so, so clever. He’s a young player, he was so important last season for Monaco. For example, the last 10 or 15 minutes he played against Napoli, when it was 3-2, he came on and helped see out the game, he had the quality to have the ball and keep it.”He is in the beginning, we are getting to know each other and maybe he needs a little bit more time to understand exactly what we are looking for, but he is so intelligent.”Although he has played in the front line, City still see Silva as a central playmaker, and coaches want him to be more like David Silva, the first Blues player to grasp Guardiola’s demands; it is said he only needed one chat with the Catalan to realise exactly what was needed.But it is also noted that the Spaniard took a season to get used to his surroundings when he first arrived in Manchester, so there is confidence the younger Silva will get there with time. Then he really will be a bargain. read more

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly has sued a New Jersey ex-politician for writing on his Facebook page that O’Reilly sexually harassed his ex-girlfriend and wanted her to dig up dirt on another accuser.A summons filed on Friday in New York state court seeks redress for Michael J. Panter’s “intentional, malicious, and bad faith actions in making defamatory and false statements in a publicly available social media post.”Panter served in the New Jersey assembly as a Democrat for two terms from 2004 to 2008. There was no immediate response to a phone message left at his office.O’Reilly is asking for at least $5 million in damages “for the public hatred, ridicule, disgrace, and permanent harm to his professional and personal reputations” as a result of the post, according to the court document.In a Facebook post earlier this week, Panter wrote that his ex-girlfriend, a Fox employee he didn’t name, had settled a claim against O’Reilly and was bound by a non-disclosure agreement. But he said he felt compelled to speak out after hearing “O’Reilly spinning his falsehoods almost daily.”Panter then detailed a phone conversation between the girlfriend and O’Reilly in which, according to Panter, O’Reilly asked her if she knew anything about another accuser’s sex life and use of illegal drugs.“In essence, the leadership of Fox … was demanding information to attack another victim,” he wrote. read more

Junior left fielder Ronnie Dawson (4) takes a swing during a game against Bethune-Cookman.Credit: Giustino Bovenzi | Lantern reporterIn a winner-take-all semifinal game on Sunday morning, the Ohio State baseball team came up with the necessary hits to beat Michigan State for a second straight day and punch its ticket to the Big Ten championship game against the Iowa Hawkeyes.The Buckeyes came right out of the gate swinging the bat, reaching base with their first three batters of the game to load the bases with no outs. After a fielder’s choice gave OSU an early 1-0 lead, junior center fielder Troy Montgomery laid down a perfect squeeze bunt that extended the lead to 2-0.The third inning was filled with plenty of run scoring for both teams. In the top half of the third, Montgomery drove in his second run of the day with an RBI single to center field. But after falling behind 3-0 to the Buckeyes, the Spartans bounced back quickly.MSU junior second baseman Dan Durkin drove a double to right field to bring the score to 3-2. He was able to score and knot the game up at three after redshirt freshman right fielder Dan Chmielewski singled to center field.Started on a double steal attempt in the top of the sixth inning, OSU capitalized on some Spartan miscues. A throwing error by the Spartans’ catcher allowed sophomore right fielder Tre’ Gantt to score and reclaim the lead for the Buckeyes. Then in the seventh, an errant throw on a sacrifice bunt attempt and a wild pitch to the next batter allowed a fifth and sixth Buckeye run to score. A three-run seventh inning by The Scarlet and Gray jumped the lead to 7-3 and gave its bullpen the run protection it needed.After plaguing the Buckeyes in the second round against Iowa, the OSU bullpen was rock-solid for them against MSU. First, redshirt sophomore Kyle Michalik came into the game, pitching 2.2 scoreless innings while allowing just four hits and striking out one. Sophomore Seth Kinker was the second and final arm out of the bullpen, delivering 3.2 scoreless innings of his own, allowing no hits and striking out two to earn the save and send the Buckeyes on to the Big Ten Championship.In a rematch of the second round of the Big Ten tournament, OSU will take on the Iowa Hawkeyes with the Big Ten Championship on the line. That game will begin at 2:20 p.m. with redshirt sophomore right-hander Adam Niemeyer set to toe the rubber for the Buckeyes. read more

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