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B<\/span>ernardo Silva is more than a footballer. He\u2019s a time-travelling, shapeshifting superhero. He even looks like a superhero \u2013 a nine-volt battery of a man doing battle with feral giants on the pitch. In 55 years of watching football I\u2019ve never seen anybody or anything like him. For the past decade I\u2019ve been lucky enough to watch him turning out week in, week out for my club, Manchester City<\/a>. And now it\u2019s time to say goodbye.<\/p>\n

Some footballers are famous for having played in virtually every position on the field. James Milner, John O\u2019Shea and Phil Neville come to mind. They tend to be solid, stolid types, as reliable as they are unimaginative.<\/p>\n

Silva is in a sphere of his own, though, when it comes to versatility. Not only is he supremely skilful, he often plays in every position in a single match. Occasionally he even plays in every position in a single move. He\u2019ll collect the ball from the keeper, the Lisbon Beckenbauer and the most unlikely libero on earth. As the ball is recycled in defence, he\u2019ll pop up at right-back. More recycling, and he\u2019s now the playmaker extraordinaire, turning on a sixpence for the eye-of-a-needle, defence-splitting pass. More recycling. Then he pops up on the wing to curl an inswinging cross into the back post. By the time the ball gets half-cleared to the edge of the penalty area, Bernardo will be there to blast a shot high and wide into the crowd.<\/p>\n

To be fair there have been great goals \u2013 the curler into the top corner against Arsenal, the screamer against United, the astonishing volley against Birmingham<\/a> in the FA Cup where he can-cans the ball into the net (it\u2019s such a one-off that fans debate whether it\u2019s a volley, half-volley or a shot that transcends language). Then there are the hugely important goals \u2013 none more so than the two against Real Madrid in the 2023 Champions League semi-final. And the surprising number of headers for a man of his height (he is a head-tennis genius).<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>In Manchester City\u2019s 2-1 win against Liverpool in January 2019 Bernardo Silva ran 13.7km, a Premier League record.<\/span> Photograph: Richard Sellers\/PA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His stats aren\u2019t outstanding. He won\u2019t be remembered for the number of goals or assists (76 goals and 77 assists in 459 appearances). But he will be for his astonishing grace, huge intelligence, the ability to find space where none exists, to beat men with shimmies so subtle you don\u2019t see them, and to dribble through brick walls. Most of all he\u2019ll be remembered for that superhuman double engine. The sheer stamina. He never seems to tire, never wants to be substituted, is hardly ever injured. Bernardo is one of life\u2019s great endurers. In City\u2019s 2-1 home victory over Liverpool in 2019<\/a> he ran 13.7km, the greatest distance recorded in a Premier League match. If he hadn\u2019t been a world-class footballer, he could have been a samurai.<\/p>\n

When it came to Manchester, he also endured. Every season he told us he wanted to leave, but that wasn\u2019t because he didn\u2019t love us. It was just because he and his family wanted sunnier climes. In the end, though, Manchester and City won out. Until now.<\/p>\n

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For 109 glorious games, Bernardo played in midfield alongside his namesake David. The original magician and his prodigy. This was Pep\u2019s prime pocket-size era. Guardiola didn\u2019t want players who could embarrass the opposition by putting the ball through opponents\u2019 legs, he wanted players who could put themselves<\/em> between opponents\u2019 legs.<\/p>\n

We used to sing to the Spandau Ballet classic: \u201cWho needs Gold? Gold! We\u2019ve got two Silvas, you know. David and Bernardo! We\u2019re indestructible!\u201d And we were. In the era of the two Silvas, City became the first and only Premier League team to secure 100 points in a season and the first and only to win a domestic clean sweep of trophies. With one Silva they then secured a treble of league, FA Cup and Champions League and went on to became the first team to win four successive Premier League titles.<\/p>\n

My friend BriceyG and I have a nickname for Bernardo that shows our age. To us, he was Schnorbitz, a tribute to Bernie Winters\u2019 adorable dog. In a way, it couldn\u2019t have been less suitable. Schnorbitz was a huge, lumbering, slobbering Saint Bernard. But in another way it was perfect. Bernardo could dribble just as well as Schnorbitz, and there has always been something puppyish about him.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s cute, fun, lovable \u2013 when he likes you. There are endless videos of City players carrying him around like a doll, or chucking him into a pool because it amuses them. But he can also bite. Rivals would love him to play for them, but they can\u2019t stand him when he\u2019s playing for us. He\u2019s master of the tactical foul, the sly nudge, and he has been known to let his boot linger. Against Brentford a couple of weeks ago, he clashed with Nathan Collins and I genuinely feared for the 6ft 4in defender. \u201cBernardo does have a tendency to rile opponents,\u201d the commentator said, admiringly. And his tongue can be just as sharp as his tackle. When asked in one video why he hadn\u2019t been training in the gym, Bernardo said: \u201cI don\u2019t do gym. That\u2019s for the guys who don\u2019t know how to play with their feet.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Perhaps he was at his spikiest when City formed a guard of honour after Liverpool won the league in July 2020. He was the only City player who refused to clap the newly crowned champions. When the cameras homed in on him, it turned out he had a mug in his hand. Cupofteagate was a succ\u00e8s de scandale<\/em> that assured him legend status at City. Afterwards he explained himself in true Bernardo style. \u201cIn my opinion, it\u2019s a kind of a hypocrisy. It\u2019s not a tradition we have in Portugal. If they want to do it, they can do it, but I wasn\u2019t going to clap Liverpool because that\u2019s not how I celebrate defeat. When I win a title, I don\u2019t need anyone else to clap for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Bernardo Silva battles for the ball with Brentford\u2019s Mathias Jensen (right) and Nathan Collins.<\/span> Photograph: Martin Rickett\/PA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In his final season at City he\u2019s been captain and led a new team to triumph in the League Cup and FA Cup. Again, his numbers haven\u2019t been anything to write home about (three goals and five assists), but the only thing this proves is that stats do lie. He\u2019s leaving at his peak. Never has he been more omnipresent than over the past nine months. This season he\u2019s not only been undroppable, he\u2019s been virtually unsubstitutable. My defining memory of Bernardo 2025-26 is him flying through the air to beat Arsenal\u2019s Viktor Gy\u00f6keres (6ft 2in) to a gravity-defying, potentially match-winning clearance. This was the header that prompted Erling Haaland to tell him: \u201cYou were like fucking Cannavaro.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Pep, Bernardo was more than a footballer he admired, more than a player he dare not drop, more than an obsession. For Pep, Bernardo was an addiction. He put it best last December after City beat West Ham 3-0. \u201cBernie\u2019s my weakness. My favourite one,\u201d he said. Who am I to disagree with Pep?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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