EPL: Man City now have squad to challenge Arsenal – Maresca

Manchester City boss, Enzo Maresca, has said that the nine present has the squad extent needed to situation Arsenal.

He stated this pursuing Manchester City’s 1-0 triumph implicit Coventry City on Saturday, courtesy of a first-half header from Erling Haaland astatine the Etihad Stadium.

City concluded the summertime transportation model strongly, signing Ayyoub Bouaddi for £86 cardinal successful summation to spending £65 cardinal connected Iliman Ndiaye and £125 cardinal connected Enzo Fernandez connected deadline day.

Last season’s Premier League runners-up besides invested £116 cardinal successful Elliot Anderson earlier successful the summer, bringing their full spending to £458 cardinal and mounting a caller Premier League grounds for a summertime transportation window.

City finished 7 points down Arsenal past season, but pursuing the triumph implicit Coventry, Maresca is assured that his squad has capable extent to situation their Premier League rubric rivals.

He told the property aft City’s 3rd triumph of the season: “If you look since the Community Shield, we played the Community Shield and past Arsenal played 2 further matches [against Coventry and Aston Villa] and they made 5 changes successful each game.