{"id":478043,"date":"2024-02-11T11:21:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=478043"},"modified":"2024-02-11T11:21:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T15:21:15","slug":"phillips-labels-man-city-period-as-stressful","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/phillips-labels-man-city-period-as-stressful\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillips labels Man City period as stressful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kalvin Phillips claimed his period at the Sky Blues was &#8220;stressful&#8221; &#8211; and his loan move to the Hammers has made him feel \u201cbetter.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udd35 Kalvin Phillips: \u201cI felt like if I wasn\u2019t going to play at Man City, I want to go to a club where I\u2019m wanted\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot that Man City didn\u2019t want me but I just wanted to go somewhere where the manager was really keen and where he really wanted me\u201d, told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanTaylorSport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RyanTaylorSport<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QnPUPbkPCl\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QnPUPbkPCl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1756656341857218724?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The England midfielder made only 6 starts for Manchester City after his 42 million dollar transfer from Leeds United 2 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>His time at Guardiola\u2019s side included criticism from the head coach over his weight, which Kalvin admitted knocked down his confidence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now I&#8217;m here with the Hammers, and on the pitch, I feel a lot more alive,&#8221; Phillips claimed after his move south during the winter transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I still loved to play football; it just changed my way of thinking about the game,&#8221; the midfielder shared in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The football wasn&#8217;t letting me down, but the fact I had nothing to expect to kind of pushed me away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Philips admitted that his toughest period was after the World Cup in Qatar when the manager told him he was overweight, and that was a big hit to his confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalvin Phillips claimed his period at the Sky Blues was &#8220;stressful&#8221; &#8211; and his loan move to the Hammers has made him feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":478044,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21528,17317,16862],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[21529,17886,17884],"acf":{"announce":"Kalvin admitted that the West Ham loan has revitalized him.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478058,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478043\/revisions\/478058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478043"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=478043"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=478043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}