Jonathan Wilson

So sometimes on the touchline, it is so, so tough to watch.

My heart.

Yeah.

He gets the ball, he starts the tricks.

My instinct is to shout, Ryan, please play it simple.

But if I tell him, stop this, I destroy the player.

So Guardiola has done something very interesting there, John, and certainly that Mikel Arteta has seemed a lot less capable of doing, and that is to actually compromise a little bit on how he thinks things should be done and have a little bit of creative tension between himself and some of his players.

Yeah, but again, in this scenario, the identity of the person in question is important.

Another player who doesn't fit the Guardiola identikit goalkeeper, Donnarumma.

I mean, Donnarumma can't do that.

He can't dilly-dally on the ball.

He doesn't have the footballing ability.

That's why Luis Enrique got rid of him.

What he does do is save a lot of shots, as he did against Havertz himself, I think it was, really late on to win the game for them.

So is that not just part of the trade-off?

If you're going to ask Donnarumma to do that, is he just going to make mistakes?

That doesn't sound like Wilson.

That's the Wilson I know.

You would have sent them on to other football journalists you know, knowing that they would then do your dirty work for you, Jonathan.

But it didn't quite come to pass.