“He is a player of us and he is training unbelievable, but I was not sure if he was going to play, and so I prefer it if he stays there training good in Manchester”, the City boss said of the ex-Barcelona midfielder.
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Guardiola said: “The fact he missed the penalties is part of the game but it was important that Sergio stayed focused and didn’t get down. That is why he didn’t play, the only reason why”.
Hart is reportedly unwilling to leave City and to fight for his place in Guardiola’s plans, but he definitely felt that it could be it for his tenure in Manchester.
I’ve watched Caballero and are you telling me Caballero is better with his feet than Joe Hart?
Expensive flop Eliaquim Mangala’s future looks in doubt after the £47.5m signing of Everton star John Stones.
Liverpool have been tenuously linked with the 29-year-old – as debunked in Wednesday’s Mediawatch – meaning Everton or Sevilla appear his most likely destination.
Speaking at his pre-match press conference at the impressive Arena Nationala, Reghecampf said: “We will try from the first match to attack and score goals”.
Guardiola said: “I think it is not the moment to talk about players who are not in Manchester City”.
“The way to go to the Champions League with the big clubs in Europe is to play with passion, with love in our games and our job”.
Pep Guardiola dropping Hart has hardly come as a bombshell to most, but it’s definitely one that has repercussions on the state of goalkeeping in this country, leaving the Premier League with just four starting English goalkeepers.
“First of all, he had more time, he arrived on the first day, in the first training session we worked on that. He is a big professional”. After that the result is coming. “That is how I would like to feel”.
Ever since the Abu Dhabi United Group took over the club in 2008, Man City’s fortunes and status in world football has absolutely skyrocketed.
And sure enough, minutes after the game had kicked off, the predictable happened.
The 29-year-old has nearly become Mr. Manchester City over the past five or six years and, even though he’s made the odd mistake during that time, is still considered to be one of the best goalkeepers in the country.
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These statistics offered up by Sky Sports highlighted the glaring difference between Hart and Bayern Munich keeper Manuel Neuer, who has been working with Guardiola over the last three seasons.
