{"id":73767,"date":"2026-05-20T04:58:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/this-weeks-soccer-questions-manchester-citys-next-steps-and-is-messi-peaking-at-the-perfect-time\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T04:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:58:50","slug":"this-weeks-soccer-questions-manchester-citys-next-steps-and-is-messi-peaking-at-the-perfect-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/this-weeks-soccer-questions-manchester-citys-next-steps-and-is-messi-peaking-at-the-perfect-time\/","title":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s soccer questions: Manchester City\u2019s next steps, and is Messi peaking at the perfect time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We look at what Celtic\u2019s title win means for Scottish soccer, Argentina\u2019s World Cup plans and the prospect of a Premier League without Pep Guardiola<\/p>\n<p>Sir Alex Ferguson may have him beat for longevity and number of titles. Ars\u00e8ne Wenger can take some credit for English soccer\u2019s modernization in the 1990s, but Pep Guardiola completely changed the landscape in his decade as Manchester City manager.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/may\/20\/pep-guardiola-man-city-lionel-messi-celtic-hearts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We look at what Celtic\u2019s title win means for Scottish soccer, Argentina\u2019s World Cup plans and the prospect of a Premier League without Pep Guardiola Sir Alex Ferguson may have him beat for longevity and number of titles. Ars\u00e8ne Wenger can take some credit for English soccer\u2019s modernization in the 1990s, but Pep Guardiola completely &#8230; <a title=\"This week\u2019s soccer questions: Manchester City\u2019s next steps, and is Messi peaking at the perfect time?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/this-weeks-soccer-questions-manchester-citys-next-steps-and-is-messi-peaking-at-the-perfect-time\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about This week\u2019s soccer questions: Manchester City\u2019s next steps, and is Messi peaking at the perfect time?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}