Pep Guardiola on whether him receiving a red card this season is inevitable due to new rules: "Me? This is the only title I don’t have here in England… This is the only one..."
Pep Guardiola on Erling Haaland not needing more than one season to adapt to ManCity: "I would say that Erling didn’t need a second season, he needed maybe one Community Shield game to realise, no more than that..."
Pep Guardiola: "I did not expect to win five PL [titles] in seven years, honestly. And the people said, ‘Ah, without the UCL it will not be enough’. Okay, now we have it. What’s next? What’s next is Burnley..."
"Many players asked me to give them more days off to come back later [in pre-season]. I can’t. We had to go to Asia to prepare, it’s what ManCity needs to pay our salaries, and after we had a Community Shield. We had to come back earlier..."
"I love to play in the Super Cup, also Community Shield. Because ManCity never won it, and to be there you have to win the UCL. Winning the Champions League gives you this opportunity and it's a pleasure to go to Athens. I love it. We like it..."
"I’m not going to promise we’re thinking about winning the PL or UCL, it’s too far away. Many things will happen in 11 months, not just ManCity but all the clubs will have ups and downs. If we will fall down, not too much..."
"Stay close to our rivals who I have a feeling will be in front and then in the last four/five/six months, let’s do what we've done the last few seasons. In the moments we should do it, we did it. Not now, now it’s about not dropping much..."
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