

Every season this happens with some player inside the club, every time Pep Guardiola starts a new season something goes wrong with a player and internal problems start to appear. This time it has been Joe Hart, the veteran goalkeeper has been left out of the last two official matches due to external issues with Pep Guardiola who doesn't take time to clarify his reasoning behind the decision. The only certainty is that Hart is closer to leaving the club than staying, transfer rumors place Chilean goalie Claudio Bravo taking his place before August 31st.
There is quite a bit of outrage among former players and football pundits for the treatment that Hart is getting from Pep. In an interview with talkSPORT, former City player Joey Barton spoke about how things have drastically changed at the club: “It is not the club I left. The club I left and the one I watch now are two totally different organisations. The club I played for wouldn’t have treated a player that had been a servant for as long as Joe has, in the manner that it has. It is disgusting.”
Barton also added: “He is a full international, somebody who, probably before City took the money (from foreign investors), could have gone on to bigger and better things himself but stayed and wanted to be at City. I don’t see what he has done wrong to be treated the way that he has. His attitude isn’t terrible. I don’t like this. It is common human decency, regardless of how good a coach you are. Why treat him like that?“Why not let him fight for his place and then if he is not good enough say: ‘I have given him an opportunity.’ That’s what every manager should do - give everyone the opportunity.”
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