I have recently been wondering why Pep Guardiola decided to send Joe Hart to Torino on loan and buy Claudio Bravo. And, I just can’t find the answer. Yes, the Chilean is a good goalkeeper, but he has performed awfully since his arrival at the Etihad Stadium. Bravo made two terrible errors on his debut against Manchester United, which didn’t cost him much. However, he continued with the unpersuasive performance and in the last City’s match in The Champions League the goalkeeper made an incredible gift to Barcelona’s forwards, being sent off in the 53rd minute.

Moreover, Joe Hart has saved The Citizens a million times. The English international goalkeeper was the key reason for Manchester City’s performance in the Champions League last season, when The Citizens reached the semi-finals of the competition. Now, Joe Hart is in a good shape. He has only lost once since he has arrived in Torino! It’s always sad when such a loyal player come across such a situation, but Hart has acted really smart, agreeing gently with his manager and not saying something he would regret further.

It’s not a normal thing, when you say you have no problems with a player, to send him “in exile” and sign a player who isn’t better than him. Such things may cost the manager even his job. In Guardiola’s case this will hardly happen, but his actions were very stupid…

In conclusion, Pep Guardiola will soon realize he has made a mistake. But, I am not sure whether he is going to admit it. If we see Willy Caballero among the starting eleven – it will be a tacit admission for the mistake! However, Josep Guardiola must recall Hart as soon as possible, because with Claudio Bravo, who has a lack of confidence, The Citizens are not going to win anything this season!

The football coach Harry Redknapp has almost killed his wife Sandra in a tragic accident in Westbury (Bournemouth) on Tuesday, revealed “the Sun”. The 69-year-old manager has parked his car next to a shop, where his wife was on shopping. However, Redknapp’s wife’ jacket has been pinched by the door of the coach’s car. Harry has been so stray, that he has dragged his wife a lot before seeing that she actually hasn’t been inside the car, but outside it… So, Harry has dragged his wife several metres, but that has been enough to cause her a severe wound to her feet. Witnesses say that there has been of a lot of blood.

After the accident, Sandra has immediately been taken to a hospital, where the doctors have made an operation. At both ends, she is now okay: “She is okay, she will be fine,” a close friend of the family said. Sandra, who is also 69 years old, has a twin sister – Patricia, who is Frank Lampard’s mother.

Now, when the situation is in the past, Harry Redknapp can feel relief. Everyone is okay and the manager should be the happiest person in the world, because I’m not sure if he could forgive himself if something else has happened.

However, let’s say a few words about Harry Redknapp’s career, which has recently been sluggish. The last time he worked as a coach, was earlier this year when he was appointed as the national team manager of Jordan, but he has left the position after only 2 matches (8-0 victory against Bangladesh and 5-1 defeat to Australia). In his long and successful career, Harry Redknapp has been a football manager at Bournemouth, West Ham United, Portsmouth, Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers. It will be really interesting if Harry returns to The Premier League (there are teams, which can be changing their managers soon).

Born in 1999, Alexander Isak is the name of maybe the most talented Swedish youngster nowadays. He has been observed by the big fishes in the football world. The talent has recently turned 17 years. He is a prodigy for his age as he shows a great set of qualities. The comparisons with Zlatan Ibrahimovic are not accidental!

The young talent is a product of the AIK football academy, as he is a part of the youth team from the distant 2005. On 28th February this year Isak made his debut for AIK. The forward came as a substitute in a match of the Swedish cup and immediately scored his first goal! Several months later, he is selected for his team’s match against Ostersunds. Alexander Isak then scored his first league goal to secure the 2-0 victory! He became the youngest goal-scorer in AIK’s history, finding the net at the age of 16 years and 199 days. He received his first professional contract shortly after this. Since then, the youngster has scored 8 goals in the league and has found the net on 3 occasions in cup matches! His teammate Chinedu Obasi has compared Isak to Zlatan Ibrahimovic and I think he is very close to the truth!

The young Swedish forward has a great physique, but this is only a small part of the qualities we can see in him. Alexander is a very fast player with a great vision. He has good finishing skills. In addition, he can play one-touch football! The thing Isak must improve is his performance in a defensive aspect. However, he has the time and the basics to build on and if he keeps going like that, he will be the next Zlatan Ibrahimovic!

So, I don’t wonder why Real Madrid, Barcelona, Liverpool and Juventus are among the teams, which has declared their interest for the player. Moreover, Alexander Isak has already made his debut for Sweden U21, even though he is 17! The forward has also scored twice in 6 matches for Sweden U17. Now we must wait and see whether Alexander Isak can improve and see his name in a bigger club.

It’s been now 20 years since the start of the career of one of the greatest midfielders in the history of football – Andres Iniesta. The Spaniard began his youth career on 6th October 1996, appearing on the pitch just 20 days after joining Barcelona’s academy “La Masia”. The midfielder has spent his entire career at Barcelona. Moreover, he (alongside with Lionel Messi) is the player to win the most trophies with the club (29 so far). Iniesta is one of Barcelona’s legends and he still has what to show on the pitch.

To continue with, the player made his debut for the senior team of Barcelona on 29th October 2002 in a Champions League match against Club Brugge in Belgium. His first goal for the club came against Levante in a Copa Del Rey match, just 3 minutes after he appeared on the pitch. Another memorable moment for the midfielder is his first Champions League trophy in 2006, when he appeared on the pitch in the final game at the halftime. He was the key reason for Barcelona to turn things around against Arsenal, setting up the equalizing goal.

But, Andres Iniesta is also very successful at international level. The first trophy he lifted with the Spanish national shirt was the UEFA European U17 Championship in 2001, then a year later, he was a part of the team, which won the Euro U19 Championship. Iniesta played for Spain U21 until 2006, when he made his first appearance for Spain. He was surprisingly included in Spain’s squad for the World Cup 2006. However, he only took part in one match – against Saudi Arabia (1-0 victory).

Then, Iniesta was a crucial part of Spain’s biggest successes at international stage. He lifted the European Championship twice (2008 and 2012) and the World Cup in 2010. Andres Iniesta scored the most important goal of his career in the final of the WC against Holland in the 116th minute, bringing the trophy to La Furia Roja.

The Spanish champions Barcelona missed the chance to take the leadership position in La Liga, after losing to Celta 3-4 in their visit to Vigo in a game of the seventh round. The Catalans were shocked, after they conceded 3 goals before the break.

As you know, Lionel Messi is still injured and he couldn’t take part in the game. However, Barcelona have enough classy players, who can replace the Argentinian magician, but it this case they weren’t at their usual level.

Luis Enrique’s players conceded all the Celta’s goals because of huge errors in defence. Barcelona weren’t concentrated enough and the logical thing happened in the 22nd minute of the game, when Sisto took advantage of a poor clearance and found Barcelona’s net. 1-0! Then, just 10 minutes later Iago Aspas scored after a great counter attack. Just 2 minutes after the second goal for Celta Vigo, the French international defender Jeremy Mathieu scored an own goal after unsuccessful tackle. So, the home team punished Barcelona’s poor performance in defence with 3 goals in just 12 minutes.

The captain of Barcelona Andres Iniesta replaced Rafinha at the break. That was the 600th match for the Spanish international midfielder with Barcelona’s shirt. And the result was obvious after the inclusion of the experienced midfielder. Gerard Pique started to play more often in attack for the champions and the defender scored a cancellation with a header in the 58th minute after Iniesta’s great cross in the box.

6 minutes later, the Brazilian superstar Neymar bagged another goal for Barcelona. This time, he scored from the penalty spot. 3-2! But, the lack of concentration again costed too much to Barcelona. The goalkeeper ter Stegen kicked the ball in the head of Hernandez in the 77th minute and the ball was in the Barcelona’s net for the 4th time in the match. The Catalans didn’t stop chasing the point until the final whistle of the match, even though they were losing 4-2.

Gerard Pique scored another goal 3 minutes before the end of the regular time, but that was the last goal in the match and Barcelona couldn’t take the 1st place in the league, leaving at 4th position after the teams of Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid and Sevilla.