Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has confirmed he is interested in signing Everton defender John Stones, reports BBC Sport. “You know, I know, everyone knows we would like to have Sané but at the moment he is a Schalke player”. Hopefully in the next two weeks, he will be OK. “But I saw what I wanted to see [tonight] – we are aggressive and we want the ball”.
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The Ivorian left Barca in 2010, and later revealed that Guardiola ignored him for a year until Manchester City made a bid for his services.
Guardiola will have two more friendlies, against St Johnstone in Manchester and Arsenal in Gothenburg next week, to prepare his team before City – who were flying home overnight from China – face Sunderland in their opening game of the new Premier League season on Aug 13.
Pep Guardiola says Man City supporters should be proud of the work ethic his team are displaying. “But we have to adapt”. We want the players on the pitch to be fit …
On Thursday City beat Borussia Dortmund 6-5 in a penalty shootout in Shenzhen after drawing 1-1, Sergio Agüero’s 76th-minute goal being cancelled out by Christian Pulisic’s last-minute equaliser.
Twenty-year-old substitute goalkeeper Angus Gunn proved to be the hero for City, saving penalties from Felix Passlack, Jacob Larsen and Mikel Merino, whilst Raheem Sterling and Garcia both missed their opportunities.
Fabregas was sent off with 20 minutes remaining following a late challenge on new Reds signing Ragnar Klavan.
By then Californian referee Baldomero Toledo had already been forced to show yellow cards to four Liverpool players – with another to come – and one to Chelsea’s Gary Cahill. He’s much, much, much better now.
“I think that in this period, the fatigue sometimes can bring a (player) to go too late”, he said.
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“And I think by August 31, we will have the right players to play the way we want”.
