The coach of Manchester City, PEP GuardiolaHe asked the club he wanted to work with a smaller squad next season, as he was concerned to “leave so many players in the stands when everything fits.
The international Savinho, Abdukadir Khusanov and Claudio Echeverri They could not enter the call on Tuesday to the city’s success 3-1 against the Bournemouth. The English James Mcatee and Rico Lewis They stayed too.
She is City He has 28 players in the first team, not counting four Cededs, and there is one of the most important templates in the world, which some media appreciate more than 1.3 billion euros.
“I told the club … I don’t want to leave five or six players in the stand,” he said Guardiola to the press after the City Third will be placed in the absence of a day for the end of the campaign.
“I don’t like that. I’m leaving. If you make a shorter template, I’ll stay,” said the coach with a contract until June 2027.
Despite its massive template, the City He faced a crisis in damage by the end of last year, when the team confined a verse of five losses in all competitions between October and November.
In January, the City signed a Omar Marmous, Vitor Reis, Khusanov and Nico González for nearly 200 million euros.
But in the defenses John Stones and Nathan Aké As only two players who are currently low due to injury, Guardiola He said it was “impossible” for his “soul” to continue to tell many players that they would see the game from the stands.
“It’s a club thing. I don’t want to have 24, 25, 26 players when it all fits. If I have injuries, bad luck, we have some players (from) the academy and we do it,” the technician added.
Guardiolathat expanded his contract to City Until 2027 in November, he will lead the club to defending the title of the Club World Cup next month.
Source: La Verdad

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