{"id":295821,"date":"2023-12-03T08:46:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T08:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=295821"},"modified":"2023-12-03T08:46:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T08:46:29","slug":"pedro-porro-on-right-path-after-falling-under-pep-guardiolas-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/pedro-porro-on-right-path-after-falling-under-pep-guardiolas-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Porro on right path after falling under Pep Guardiola&apos;s radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Pedro Porro on the right path after falling under Pep Guardiola&#8217;s radar at Man City &#8211; never even making it to Manchester &#8211; and finding himself under Ange Postecoglou at Spurs<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Pedro Porro was a Manchester City player for three years, but never joined them<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>He is now part of the Spurs team tasked with handling Jeremy Doku on Sunday\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>IAN LADYMAN: If Spurs go toe-to-toe with City, they&#8217;ll have their trousers pulled down &#8211; It&#8217;s All Kicking Off<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pedro Porro lets out a little chuckle before considering his answer. How does he reflect on his time at Manchester City?<\/p>\n<p>It is worth pointing out at this early juncture that, yes, Porro was once a City player. He spent nearly three years on the champions\u2019 books but you would be forgiven for missing it.<\/p>\n<p>He never played for the first team. He never trained with the squad. He never spoke to Pep Guardiola. He never held up the City shirt, grinning, in one of those new-signing announcement photo shoots. He never even made it to Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>City signed the 19-year-old Porro on the final day of the summer transfer window in 2019 from Girona, the Spanish club they own, but he was immediately sent on loan to Valladolid. Porro had his medical in Girona and flew straight to his new club.<\/p>\n<p>Porro\u2019s only visit to the Etihad during his time at City was to play against them in the Champions League for Porto, another club to which he was farmed out on loan. The closest he had got before then was a pre-season training camp with Girona held at the City academy facility next door.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/02\/21\/78509499-12818489-image-a-32_1701552083343.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pedro Porro spent three years on Manchester City&#8217;s books &#8211; but never made it to the city<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/02\/21\/78509563-12818489-image-a-34_1701552174023.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Porro never even spoke to Man City boss Pep Guardiola during his time on their books<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/02\/21\/78509505-12818489-image-a-33_1701552119124.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Instead, he has found himself as a key cog in Ange Postecoglou&#8217;s Tottenham Hotspur<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>He returns to the Etihad on Sunday afternoon, this time as a key cog in Ange Postecoglou\u2019s Tottenham. An ideal moment, then, to consider what happened then and where he is now.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s not just in football, in any walk of life when you realise that you don\u2019t fit in or not part of something, you have just got to get on with it,\u2019 says Porro of his time at City. \u2018You\u2019ve got to follow your own path.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018One thing I am as an individual, I\u2019m very ambitious and I showed quite a lot of strength to come through that and to get where I am today by following my own path.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s cool. I have total respect for City. It happens in football, I just probably wasn\u2019t in their plans at that time. When you are a footballer, you have to look for ways out of that situation, whether it\u2019s a move or a loan.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Porro\u2019s path has brought him here, to Tottenham, who he joined on deadline day in January, initially on loan and then permanently in the summer for \u00a340million. At last, he has found somewhere he belongs. He has been helped to settle, he says, by Christian Romero, Richarlison and Emerson. Eric Dier, too, who can speak Portuguese. Porro speaks here with an interpreter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Whenever you go somewhere new to play, that settling in period is vital,\u2019 he says. \u2018It is a key to everything. From the first day, I have done my best to fit in and be a part of things and, apart from a bit of criticism I received from my first game, I have felt loved by the supporters. As a result of that, I feel very much at home. Long may that continue.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as he mentioned it, how about that first game. Tottenham\u2019s defeat by Leicester in February that led former Spurs boss Tim Sherwood to describe Porro\u2019s performance as \u201cso bad, it\u2019s unbelievable\u201d. \u2018I\u2019m pretty laid back about it,\u2019 says Porro. \u2018In football, everyone has an opinion. Everyone can criticise, it comes with the territory. What makes me happy is knowing I have everything to improve every day.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/02\/21\/78508865-12818489-image-m-36_1701552211089.jpg\" height=\"418\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Porro&#8217;s Spurs head to Man City on the back of three defeats in a row, and have dropped down the table<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/02\/22\/78508883-12818489-Porro_declares_that_Man_City_winger_Jeremy_Doku_is_in_for_a_batt-m-20_1701557291913.jpg\" height=\"516\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Porro declares that Man City winger Jeremy Doku is in for a battle as they go head-to-head<\/p>\n<p>Spurs head to City on the back of three defeats on the spin. They went from top of the table at the start of November to out of the top four by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve not lost four in a row since 2004. And yet, amid the results and a personnel crisis that sees Tottenham without 11 first-team players through injury or suspension \u2014 \u2018it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve ever experienced anything like this\u2019 \u2014 there\u2019s still a sense of positivity around the place.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Look back at two of the last three games, no one would have argued if the score had been 4-0 to us after 25 minutes,\u2019 says Porro. \u2018We feel positive because we are doing the right things and performing well. What we have achieved so far this season is great. The mood is great.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Porro will be up against rampaging City winger Jeremy Doku on Sunday afternoon and knows he has a battle on his hands. \u2018Clearly, I\u2019m not going to have an afternoon off,\u2019 says Porro. \u2018But neither is he!\u2019<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12818489\/Pedro-Porro-right-path-falling-Pep-Guardiolas-radar-Man-City-never-making-Manchester-finding-Ange-Postecoglou-Spurs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro Porro on the right path after falling under Pep Guardiola&#8217;s radar at Man City &#8211; 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