Manchester City-PSG: how the Skyblues and Guardiola changed the course of Ferran Torres’ career
Four and a half years after his departure from Manchester City, the Spanish striker faces his former club in the Champions League.
Quick Look
Ferran Torres returns to the Etihad Stadium to face Manchester City with Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League, four and a half years after his departure from the English club.
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Why It Matters
Ferran Torres played for Manchester City before joining Barcelona in January 2022.
How we meet again... Four and a half years after his departure for Barcelona, in January 2022, Ferran Torres is back at the Etihad Stadium to face his former club, Manchester City, this Wednesday (9 p.m.), in the Champions League, under the colors of Paris Saint-Germain.
Trained at Valencia, his hometown club, the 26-year-old Spanish international spent only a year and a half in the north of England, scoring 16 goals in 43 games. Failure or success? It's not that simple. Promises, a lot of bench time, moods and a metatarsal fracture to finish. But Torres didn’t make the trip for nothing. A turning point.
It was in fact as a winger that he caught the eye of Pep Guardiola. It is in this register that City paid a little more than 30 million euros to offer themselves. But the Catalan coach quickly saw something else in him. A little constrained and forced due to injuries to his center forwards, Sergio Aguero and Gabriel Jesus, Pep Guardiola…
Open Questions
- How will the public at the Etihad Stadium react to Ferran Torres?
