Asked if he might be leaving the club, the 29-year-old said: “That’s not for me to say; it is what it is”.
Advertisement
Hart was an unused substitute for City’s first three games of the season, with Willy Caballero preferred by Pep Guardiola.
As Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City advance upon the Champions League group phase, previously maligned winger Raheem Sterling appears to have been reborn.
Guardiola told a news conference: “Joe is still our player”.
“I know he is a legend for this club”. “I am going to sit with my people and going to see which players need more training than play, which players have more minutes in their legs. I will make some rotations with the players”. It’s a place I’d love to be but situations occur in football.
“I have an excellent relationship with Joe”.
Quizzed on his feelings having committed his future to the club, he declared: “I’m very happy to sign a new contract. We’ve just got to enhance the talent, play as a team and win”.
And following Barca’s 6-2 demolition of Real Betis on Saturday, in which fans chanted urging Bravo to stay, sporting director Robert Fernandez confirmed that an agreement with City was approaching completion. Whenever I get my chance, I will do my best for the team.
Anytime a player can miss two penalties and still finish the game with a hat-trick, you know that you have witnessed a rout and that was precisely the scenario which unfolded as Sergio Aguero helped Manchester City to a 0-5 first-leg victory in Romania last week. That’s why we saw Sergio was a little bit exhausted after playing four days ago and the travel (in the Champions League qualifier).
Nolito is honoured to be playing alongside the prolific Sergio Aguero at Manchester City. “We were the better team in Bucharest and we were the better team tonight”, he added.
Advertisement
It was thought that a fixture at the bet365 Stadium would present a big test for the embryonic Guardiola regime following Stoke’s 2-0 victory here past year and, after Aguero’s first-half double, the Potters hit back through a Bojan Krkic penalty. We were not in the right decisions. That is why I am confident that it will remain this way and we will have solidarity and help each other. After that he has to be able to help us to create a good build-up. If you pass, pass, with no chance. I’ve said many times he’s our player. We attacked with more intensity in the second half. But the rest, we saw again wonderful team spirit, how they communicate with each other, how they celebrate the goals, after the game with the fans.
