Winning is not enough for Manchester City to move on from this crisis | Jonathan Wilson

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What’s she hinting at? So proud of everyone. [It’s] important to stay strong mentally, stick together and do what you can do something about, and the thing we can do something about is to play good football and fight together.

This was a mental battle, [it’s] never easy coming back from internationals.”But of course this wasn’t really about coming back from internationals; that’s not what made this difficult for City. Nobody knows what’s coming next.The gravity of the situation still seems to have not dawned on many in football.

This is another of football’s absurdities: it’s always the manager and players who end up becoming the faces of the institution, being quizzed about things that have very little to do with them as the executives and directors responsible lurk away from public scrutiny.“My message to the players since we were together three days ago, when they all came back from their national teams, has been quite clear,” Enzo Maresca said. This is a crisis unlike anything English football has ever known, and it is one with which football’s language is struggling to cope.