Pep Guardiola attacked the FIFA during the press conference before the match against Fulham. The manager spoke to the media ahead of the Premier League matchday 7 match. In it, they questioned him about the decision of the highest body of world football to ask clubs to summon their best players for the Club World Cup, regardless of the length of the season.
“Who are the best players? Maybe FIFA should tell me which players they consider to be the best“, began by saying the Manchester City coach, who claimed not to understand the said decision: “I don’t understand it. We will take all the staff. We will play more than one match, so we will take more than eleven players,” he insisted.
Guardiola stressed that those considered by FIFA to be the best players might not arrive in their best condition because the calendar is very busy with matches: “I don’t know who the best players will beit depends on how they get to that moment. Perhaps the best FIFA players arrive in very bad conditions“It can happen for many reasons: personal, physical, injuries… and then we will have to bring in other players.”
On the other hand, Guardiola spoke about the state of the team before facing Fulham: “With the exception of Aké, Rodri, De Bruyne and Bobb, the others are fit to play,” he replied . Due to the fact that DeBruyne asked the Belgian federation not to call him up for his team’s next matches, Pep replied: “Not available to play tomorrow. If you couldn’t play a single game, why should you go with your team? This is something I never understood. If he can’t play for us, he can’t play for Belgium. “He is not retiring from the national team, but he is injured and cannot play.”
Regarding the fact that this season he has to defend Manchester City more than usual due to the 115 accusations against his club, and if he feels it as something personal, he commented this: “I am part of the club . Basically, The best way for me to defend the club is to win matches.“There’s no mistaking why I’m here.”
“In the end, in each club, the coach is the one who speaks the most to the press and who can send messages to the supporters, etc. I will defend my club because I trust the ownerto the president and to all the people I have worked with here for so many years. I know them very well, better than you. “The club has given me a lot,” he added.
Banner in Catalan for Guardiola
The continuity of Guardiola inside City This worries the supporters of the English club quite a bit. That’s why several fans raised money to display a banner in Catalan during Saturday’s match asking him to stay. Asked about this detail, the man from Santpedor replied that they had to send him the bill and that he would pay it.
“Bring me the bill, I’ll pay it. I don’t want them to spend money on that. I am grateful to them, I felt their love from the moment I arrived,” he said. Finally, he was asked if he wanted to stay at Manchester City, to which he did not want to answer: ” I won’t talk about it, what happens will happen.”
