At a press conference this Friday, the Mancuniens manager focused on upcoming recruitment.
Pep Guardiola “don’t know” if Manchester City will recruit one or more players during the winter transfer window, a window “not easy” to obtain the necessary reinforcements, said the coach of the reigning quadruple English champions on Friday.
“Right now, I don’t know.”replied Guardiola, when asked about the possible arrival of new players in January. “It’s not easy, it won’t be easy. Maybe we’ll sign, maybe we won’t sign anyone.”he added.
Manchester City are in sixth place after having won only two of their last ten league matches, a decline which coincides with the absence of many injured players, including Ballon d’Or Rodri. In recent weeks, Guardiola has publicly repeated his desire to obtain reinforcements in January, particularly in defense and in the defensive midfielder position. “The club must be wise, not do it for the sake of doing it”he said on Friday.
Evasive on the De Bruyne file
On the future of Kevin De Bruyne (33), whose contract ends at the end of the season, the coach first kicked in: “it’s not my job” to talk about it with him, he said.
The Belgian leader, often injured, is “a decisive player” when he is in peak physical shape, Guardiola added. For him, it will be necessary to take into account “his performances until the end of the season, the age he is, a lot of things”SO “I think the club needs to think about it”.
Manchester City welcomes West Ham on Saturday after putting a series of four matches without a win in the league behind them on Sunday against Leicester (2-0). “It’s just a match where we didn’t play at our best”he commented. “But we won, because football is like that sometimes. There are matches where we played better and where we didn’t win..
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