2024-02-15 03:34:20
Kalvin Phillips (26) was not comfortable at Manchester City and in January he was loaned to West Ham United, where he hopes to find the confidence and prominence that he has not had in recent times at the Etihad Stadium under the orders of Pep Guardiola whose methods he has questioned in a juicy interview in which he talks about a little bit of everything.
«I wouldn’t have been at the Eurocup this summer if I hadn’t left in January. I spoke to England manager Gareth Southgate about some teams a month before the January window and he influenced me to stay in the Premier League rather than go abroad. I thought West Ham was the right place,” says the footballer in ‘The Guardian’. “I look for consistency, otherwise there was the possibility that someone else would play in my place and that would be heartbreaking.”
Phillips, signed by City in July 2022 from Leeds, admits that there were “bad days when I didn’t feel any emotion and that was stressful.” Guardiola’s overweight mockery after his return from Qatar 2022 was his lowest point. «After the World Cup I experienced the most difficult thing, when Pep came out and said that he was overweight. He was right, but there are different ways to do it.
«Pep was very frustrated because I returned 1.5 kg above my goal weight. It was a big blow to my confidence and how I felt at City. “My family wasn’t happy about it either, especially my mother.” Lindsay Crosby couldn’t stand seeing her son in the dock so often. “He got frustrated, he didn’t come to watch much because he didn’t like watching football without me playing.”
TAKEN FROM SPORTS WORLD