'Football Gives You Another Chance', Feels Man City Boss Guardiola After Testing Season

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Last Updated:May 26, 2025, 20:16 IST

Guardiola's City finished 3rd successful a play highlighted by idiosyncratic issues for the Spanish tactician and an wounded that ruled Balon d'Or victor Rodri retired for astir of the campaign.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola (AP)

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola held backmost from laying retired statements of the Mancunian side’s accidental of clinching the Premier League rubric adjacent year, aft failing to support the title, which was picked up by Liverpool nether Arne Slot successful the Dutchman’s debut season.

Guardiola’s City finished 3rd down Liverpool and Arsenal with 71 points successful a play highlighted by idiosyncratic issues for the Spanish tactician and an wounded that ruled Balon d’Or victor Rodri retired for astir of the campaign.

When quizzed if City would dethrone Liverpool successful the upcoming season, Guardiola said, “I don’t know. I ne'er thought we would triumph six Premier League titles successful 7 years."

“But if you expect that I americium going to archer you present that adjacent play we are going to triumph the Premier League, you are wrong," the Catalan added.

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Guardiola touched connected however it was his archetypal play astatine City that helium failed to breach the 80-point threshold and acknowledged the assorted crushed down the same.

“Since I person arrived astatine this club, we person finished with 80-plus points and this play we person finished with 71 truthful that is miles distant from our standards. And it has happened for galore reasons," the 54-year-old said.

“Sport and shot gives you different accidental and we volition look to beryllium ourselves," helium added.

Guardiola, however, added that Liverpool are miles up of his broadside astatine the infinitesimal and expressed his uncertainty astir heading into the upcoming play astatine the extremity of the revamped FIFA Club World Cup slated to statesman connected the 15th of June successful the USA.

“But we are miles distant from Liverpool. That is the reality. I person a feeling adjacent play volition beryllium amended but I don’t cognize however we volition respond aft the Club World Cup. We volition beryllium exhausted without a vacation earlier adjacent season.

“We person to emergence and summation our level different we volition not vie to combat for the titles. But if we are fit, we volition effort and we volition beryllium closer," the erstwhile Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager added.

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The Spaniard bedewed connected to suggest that his squad mightiness not request a immense overhaul up of the consequent run contempt the departure of prima midfielder Kevin De Bruyne. Guardiola stated that determination mightiness beryllium a mates of caller faces, but the halfway of the radical would astir apt stay the same.

“I person 24 players and I saw them grooming the different time and I said: ‘Oh my gosh, however bully are they?'"

“New faces volition come, particularly successful positions wherever we are weaker, but I don’t deliberation we request a lot. We person a bully squad and I don’t privation a batch of players," helium added.

“But we volition see. The summertime is long. There volition beryllium players who realise they don’t play and privation to leave. But that is present not my business. I qualified for the Champions League and the remainder belongs to the club," Guardiola concluded.

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