Manchester City, Pep Guardiola stays on one condition

Pep Guardiola spoke directly about his future. “I told the club that I don’t want a very large squad – he stressed in a press conference after the win with Bournemouth -I don’t want to leave five or six players in the freezer. I don’t want that, I would leave. Give me a shorter roster and I” stay.

“It is impossible for me to go to my players in the stands and tell them that they cannot play – explained the Spanish coach -. For three or four months we could not get 11 players, we had no defenders and it was difficult. But then the players came back and next season cannot be like this”,

“I cannot coach 24 players and every time I make a choice have 4, 5 or 6 at home in Manchester because they cannot play. It can’t happen, I told the club I don’t want it to happen” Pep recoiled.

“If there are injuries, we have players from our Academy. We can”t afford to lose the soul of the team, to create that bond between us that has been somewhat lost this season” concluded Guardiola.