Pep Guardiola on Kevin De Bruyne's injury: “For tomorrow he's not ready... How can he go [with Belgium] when he didn't play one game [for Man City since injury]? I never understood that. But, anyway. He cannot play with us, he cannot play with Belgium.”
“He didn't say to me, I don't know when he's going to retire for the national team from Belgium. He didn't say that, to me. I don't know what's in the mind of Kevin. But for those games, he's injured, he's not available.”
“He didn't say to me, I don't know when he's going to retire for the national team from Belgium. He didn't say that, to me. I don't know what's in the mind of Kevin. But for those games, he's injured, he's not available.”
Pep Guardiola on FIFA's regulations for the Club World Cup insisting that teams MUST bring their 'strongest' squads: “What is the strongest players? Which ones? FIFA will tell me for THEM which players are stronger than the other ones? I don't understand that.”
“We will go all the squad there. We don't go for one game, right? So I don't know who is the competition itself right now, but we're not going with 11 players, we're going with the whole squad.”
“I don't understand how the selection of players is 'stronger' than other ones? I know! Stronger means in-form, and maybe the strongest for them is in really, really bad conditions! For many reasons; personal, physical, injuries, niggles, and we're going to play other ones.”
“I'm not going to be told before the games which players are going to play, I will decide, for sure!”
“We will go all the squad there. We don't go for one game, right? So I don't know who is the competition itself right now, but we're not going with 11 players, we're going with the whole squad.”
“I don't understand how the selection of players is 'stronger' than other ones? I know! Stronger means in-form, and maybe the strongest for them is in really, really bad conditions! For many reasons; personal, physical, injuries, niggles, and we're going to play other ones.”
“I'm not going to be told before the games which players are going to play, I will decide, for sure!”
BREAKING: The Premier League rejected an approach by Man City to postpone "the first or second games" of the 2025/26 season to allow for more recovery/holiday after the FIFA Club World Cup, says Pep Guardiola.
Pep: “The Premier League say yes to US?! No! Absolutely not!"
Pep: “The Premier League say yes to US?! No! Absolutely not!"
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BREAKING: The Premier League rejected an approach by Man City to postpone "the first or second games" of the 2025/26 season to allow for more recovery/holiday after the FIFA Club World Cup, says Pep Guardiola. Pep: “The Premier League say yes to US?! No!…
Pep Guardiola: “After the [2025 summer] holidays, the Premier League didn’t allow us to postpone, with @Chealsea I think or all the teams that went to the World Cup, the first two games [of the 2025/26 season] to come back for recovery... THANK YOU SO MUCH.”
Pep Guardiola on Kyle Walker on the verge of 400 PL appearances: “I don’t have any doubts about his physicality. He can play whenever... I’m happy he’s back in the national team, and this milestone is unbelievable. His win rate is not spectacular, it’s superior.”
“How consistent, how many games you have to play, how few injuries, his physicality is out of the normal. Kyle has to be completely focussed to get the best of him.”
“How consistent, how many games you have to play, how few injuries, his physicality is out of the normal. Kyle has to be completely focussed to get the best of him.”
Pep Guardiola on Kevin De Bruyne’s injury: “I don’t know in English - Pubis? I don’t know! It’s something here [points to groin], the upper body for the lower body. It’s not a big issue, but still he doesn’t feel good.”
“He knows his body. Every player knows, but especially his age, after tough surgery. It'll be the same with Rodri. When you have this long injury, you have to be careful. The problem Kevin has is a consequence from last season, five months out.”
“He knows his body. Every player knows, but especially his age, after tough surgery. It'll be the same with Rodri. When you have this long injury, you have to be careful. The problem Kevin has is a consequence from last season, five months out.”
Pep Guardiola: “It’s my advice; when they're fit, go to the national team. If you don’t feel good, don’t go. This is my advice. But… it doesn’t mean they have to follow me! If they feel good, you have to represent your country. For many players, it's the most important thing.”
Pep Guardiola: “Prepare Fulham. All my preparations are Fulham. Not because in February, March it will be better. In February we are 20 points behind, or maybe 20 points in front - who knows?! The game next is the best solution. In my experience, it’s the best way.”
Pep Guardiola: “I never think about future, March, February, the World Cup, never ever! I demand from my team, myself, every single game do the best! ‘No we’re going to do that because in February we’ll be perfect!’ Who knows?! I plan to be 12 months perfect! This is my plan.”
Pep Guardiola: “I would like to be told, 'Today I'm tired, today I'll not be ready, it’s better to have less minutes', but players don’t say that. I would love it! They want to play every game. That’s nice, that’s fine, but in some moments the body says, ‘Warnings! I’m here!’”
“It’s a lot of games, a lot of years, many years of injuries, long ones, consequences are here. The same with a car when they go to be replaced for some things, and it’s not the same car. It’s not the same as when you go to buy a car.”
“It’s a lot of games, a lot of years, many years of injuries, long ones, consequences are here. The same with a car when they go to be replaced for some things, and it’s not the same car. It’s not the same as when you go to buy a car.”
Pep Guardiola: “I don’t know if this season, at the end of the season for the States in the [Club] World Cup, we are going to play more games than the Treble year, when we won the Treble and played all the games in the season. Maybe we will play less games!”
“It’s quite similar from previous seasons, I'd say... The only problem I'd say will be the next season, in the beginning... As much as you go through in the competitions, you have two more games in the UCL, but two more games is not much, much different.”
“It’s quite similar from previous seasons, I'd say... The only problem I'd say will be the next season, in the beginning... As much as you go through in the competitions, you have two more games in the UCL, but two more games is not much, much different.”