Who Can Replace the Wizard Kevin?…
Hold your horse-and-carts, City fans! The Etihad’s going to be missing some magic as Kevin De Bruyne is swapping his City shirt for flip-flops and a cocktail this summer. For a decade, Kev has been the midfield maestro, serving up passes crispier than your nan’s Sunday roast. He’s been compared to legends like Gerrard, Lampard, and Scholes – he’s basically the Beatles of footballers! But now, Pep Guardiola faces the head-scratching conundrum as epic as finding a needle in a haystack filled with spaghetti on who will fill the De Bruyne-shaped chasm in midfield.
Our Belgian wizard only managed to conjure four goals and seven assists this season, appearing just 12 times in the Premier League like a friendly ghost haunting the pitch. But what a gap to fill! Spoiler alert: City might have already made the oops-a-daisy move of letting the perfect replacement, one Cole Palmer, saunter off to Chelsea for the price of a fancy cheese platter (ÂŁ42.5 million, if we’re counting pennies). Palmer’s been busier than a squirrel at a nut sale, banging in 39 goals and 23 assists for Chelsea, not to mention a cheeky goal for England against Spain. Talk about ‘What could’ve been!’
Now Guardiola, the bald wizard in the dugout, must rub his thinking lamp and magic up a new plan as City round off another Premier League title with more trophies than a kid’s soccer star birthday bash. If there’s no new star to fill the void, the existing gang in sky blue will have to step it up and sparkle in the way Kev has since his City debut. Will there be a magical solution or are Manchester City cruising for a bruising? Stay tuned, and maybe send a pigeon with some wisdom to the Etihad!
