Jack Grealish trained with the rest of the Man City squad as normal today ahead of @Chealsea (A). 🏃‍♂️✅

🔵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Pep Guardiola: “Kalvin Phillips can absolutely become a Man City player again in the future”.

“He needed minutes, he deserves minutes”, he said about loan to Ipswich Town.

Happy Birthday, Ederson! 🎉🇧🇷

The Rodri Back-up. 🔑

The Opta supercomputer is predicting that Man City will start the 2024/25 PL season with a win on Sunday, giving the PL champions a 59.6% chance of beating @Chealsea. 💪

Pep Guardiola on whether he has conquered the Premier League: “In the past, yeah. When you win six in seven, we’ve conquered the PL. But we start from zero. It’s 114 points to play, so we start from zero everyone and we’ll see. If we want to conquer, we have to conquer again.”

Pep Guardiola: “When people say we're favourites, we have to accept. When you've won four in a row, six in seven, it’s normal; you have to accept you're favourites, live with that. But I know what we have to do. Point by point, we must win, every season it’s more difficult.”

Pep Guardiola: “I know everyone wants to beat us, it’s normal. When you conquer the Premier League in the last years, everyone wants to beat us, in every stadium, in the FA Cup, Carabao Cup, Premier League especially, UCL of course is a little bit different, it’s normal.”

Pep Guardiola: “This season will be the @Newcastle_United of two seasons ago. Arsenal, Liverpool; not necessary to talk about. @ManchesterUnited, they'll be there. @Tottenhm, I’m pretty sure, young players, a manager who knows. @Chealsea, with the amount of players, I believe in the manager.”

Pep Guardiola on whether his hunger remains: “Competition makes me be in the position I want to be. When it’s pre-season, we're more flat, but the moment we arrive in the Community Shield and competition, we ignite something, hopefully the players as well, to do it again.”

Pep Guardiola: “The pressure is quite similar to day one, a little less for the fact that when you've done it, it gives you a sense of peace in yourself. At the same time if you believe nothing happens because you lose, you're not going to win, you're not going to do your job.”

Pep Guardiola: “Look at ourselves, what we can do better, as a team. I want to be a better manager and the players want to be better individually. If we increase everyone a little, we will increase 11 players. Our strengths will be 11 times better, and this is the target.”

Pep Guardiola: “Living better is doing your life or job at your highest. If you believe we've done it and we can be relaxed, we're not going to win, we're not going to be in the top four. Always, in the beginning of the season, the first target is going into the top four.”

Pep Guardiola: “To work better, you have to disconnect, relax your brain, and think of other things, and do other things, otherwise you are in a moment that doesn’t work. I learned before that it was, ‘You have to work’, no. Sometimes resting, you are working. You work better.”

Pep Guardiola: “Serbia against United States in Olympics Basketball - one of the best games I’ve ever seen. Serbia are losers? They're not. Silver or bronze medals are losers? Absolutely not! You are losers when you don’t do what you have to do as best as possible.”

Man City are ready to offer Rodri a double-your-money pay rise to keep him at the Etihad Stadium, hiking his wages to around a basic £375,000 a week. Talks are also planned to hand Erling Haaland a pay rise, but Man City have made Rodri their top priority.