Hart has already been told by Guardiola that he can leave City, and the Spanish coach said on Friday the club will help him secure a move away this transfer window.
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But that wouldn’t concern Guardiola, who said the 33-year-old Bravo would be a valuable member of City’s team because of his high-level experience with Barca and Copa America champion Chile, and his ability to start attacks from the back.
Hart has effectively been demoted to third-choice goalkeeper behind new signing Claudio Bravo and his former deputy Willy Caballero as Guardiola looks to offload the England global.
On the subject of exits for Wilfried Bony, Samir Nasri and Eliaquim Mangala, he added: “We’re working on it”.
“Maybe one of them will be in the squad for Sunday’s game”, Bilic said. We’re going to decide the best for Joe, but for Willy Caballero and Angus Gunn as well.
West Ham have been without both of their key creative fulcrums for the start of the season and, further shorn of captain Mark Noble, thoroughly lacked incision and guile as they lost 1-0 to Astra Giurgiu, ending their participation in the Europa League.
“Maybe they go into rotation to find a solution – the best for us and them”.
“After West Ham, we continue to speak and we’ll see what the situation is”.
“I can not deny this was special for me”, said Guardiola.
Guardiola has warned the England No. 1 he could spend most of his campaign watching from the touchline as part of a rotation policy if he fails to find a new club by Wednesday.
“Dimitri Payet and Manuel Lanzini, we’re going to know more on Saturday”.
“I was lucky to have under my command Chilean players like Alexis Sanchez and Arturo Vidal before and now Claudio Bravo”.
“It happened last season with Bayern Munich”.
Not a lot was made of it at the time – City had 72% possession and 27 shots at goal – but in the wider narrative it became the first wobble in a campaign that very quickly became unsteady.
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The Talksport co-host says the Manchester City keeper needs somewhere to play and suggested Sunderland as an option. “We have to put up with that because it is the draw and we will have to face it”.
