{"id":655864,"date":"2025-06-18T11:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=655864"},"modified":"2025-06-18T11:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:50:17","slug":"bernardo-silva-pep-guardiola-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/06\/18\/bernardo-silva-pep-guardiola-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I Decided’: Pep Guardiola Makes Bold Call at Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City endured a difficult 2024\/25 campaign, winning only the Charity Shield. They ran into awful periods of form but did turn things around in the last part of the campaign to finish 3rd in the league. City traditionally held a player’s vote to appoint their captain, with Kyle Walker<\/a> being elected last season before he departed for AC Milan. <\/span>Pep Guardiola<\/span><\/a> has decided after last season, that<\/span> it’s time for a change, and has elected Bernardo Silva as the new captain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Guardiola Takes Control of Captaincy Decision at Manchester City<\/h2>\n

Guardiola Explains Bernardo Silva Choice<\/h3>\n

Manchester City are not surprisingly looking to strengthen their playing squad, and Pep Guardiola has now made a big move to designate a new leader, with Guardiola scrapping the normal players’ vote for the new captain, to elect Bernardo Silva. This will be the first time in nine years that the Spaniard has picked his <\/span>own<\/span> captain, but after the last season, it’s understandable he wants to shake things up.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reflecting on his decision to change, Guardiola said: <\/span>\u201cFor the first time in my career, I decided my captain.” <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

“I didn\u2019t like what happened last season, and I decided this season I will represent the team. Sometimes I want to be the boss.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Guardiola Praises Bernardo Silva<\/h3>\n

\u201cWith captains, it\u2019s complicated sometimes, but at the same <\/span>time<\/span> it\u2019s so simple. You have to put the team, your mates, <\/span>the <\/span>club, always in front of you all the time, and <\/span>to<\/span> ask all the time what is <\/span>the best<\/span> for the team. And when you decide what is <\/span>the best<\/span> for the team, you never make a mistake, never, ever, and this is what you have to do as captains, and I think Bernardo has been an incredible figure for us, many years here. Always in the bad moments, he knew he had to make a step up,\u201d <\/span><\/em>added Guardiola<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester City endured a difficult 2024\/25 campaign, winning only the Charity Shield. They ran into awful periods of form but did turn things around in the last part of the campaign to finish 3rd in the league. City traditionally held a player’s vote to appoint their captain, with Kyle Walker being elected last season before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":635924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,30],"tags":[963,181],"class_list":["post-655864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-city","category-news","tag-bernardo-silva","tag-pep-guardiola"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655869,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655864\/revisions\/655869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}