CITY Fly-on-the-wall TV show filming at City
CITY have confirmed Amazon will be filming a behind-the-scenes show at the football club for the 2017/18 season.
According to the press release , the show will ‘offer fans a glimpse into the historic club, its legendary coach, Pep Guardiola and the week-onweek stories that unfold within the lives of the players currently sitting top of the English Premier League table.’
But which walls will it most be worth being a fly on? What situations will reveal the most about the team or players in what could be a historic season at the club.
Here’s a few suggestions about what we would most like to see when the documentary comes out. Dressing room secrets City have already tried to give more insight into the players’ match-day experience, albeit only to those willing to pay an eye-watering fee in the Tunnel Club.
But from the players singing Kevin De Bruyne’s name at Chelsea or the speech Sergio Aguero gave in Naples after breaking the club goalscoring record, there are a lot of raw emotions that could be unearthed from particular games or incidents.
Other sports already offer this level of access and it will be a (carefully managed) step forward for football to join the party. Laid-back Pep Despite the best efforts of the fourth estate, you are never going to learn much from seeing Guardiola answering/pawing various parts of his head at weekly questions from journalists.
The Catalan has not got to where he is in the game by excelling in press conferences and gives little away before games.
A chance to see what the coach is like on a daily basis with his players should reveal far more about how Guardiola works and what his relationship with players and the backroom staff is like. Deadline day deals The bi-annual Sky roadshow has pumped the drama into the last day of the summer and winter transfer windows, but what is it really like at a top club?
There should be plenty to go at from the August finale alone.
As well as the uncertainty surrounding Eliaquim Mangala and Jonny Evans, the day was dominated by Alexis Sanchez.
Arsenal and City blamed each other for the failure to get the deal done, but there could be some explosive footage that makes plain what really went down at boardroom level. The breakout star However mundane, every documentary has one.
You start watching for the big names or topics you are expecting to see and end up talking about someone that has popped up completely out of the blue.
The cameras are taking a look at every aspect of the club, so there could well be a chef, groundsman or office worker waiting to take centre stage. Guardiola team talks These are legendary. As Dani Alves said about his time at Barcelona: “Pep would tell you exactly how everything was going to happen in a match before it even happened.” There was the Gladiator video for the Champions League final and Oasis has been introduced to the match-day routine at the Etihad this season. City have reportedly been unwilling to allow access to one so far this season, but a change of mind would definitely be appreciated. Dani Alves
Mendy’s motivational skit Sticking with team talks, Mendy sent a video version before the stirring win over Chelsea.
It had every City player in stitches and the insinuation was that the Frenchman had taken the mickey out of Guardiola’s style to give his own take on the motivational speech.
It has not yet seen the light of day and would surely make good trailer fodder for Amazon to tease the show and get people to pay for it. Better than Juventus Amazon are trying to take a slice of the football market but they are not the only ones.
Netflix are filming a similar documentary series about Juventus this season to be aired next summer.
City are aiming for their show to be groundbreaking, but it won’t look as good if it doesn’t give anywhere near the level of access that the Juventus one does. Dsquared2 meeting Another year, another questionable outfit forced upon Brian Kidd.
City signed up the fashion label last year after Guardiola’s arrival at the club, and have dressed in a number of, erm, ‘interesting’ outfits on their travels.
You can probably imagine how City’s assistant reacted on seeing his latest apparel, but the moment captured on camera could be some TV gold.