“And with the goalkeeper with more than 100 caps for the national team and a team that can compete with Argentina or Brazil he’s a really good asset for us”. We have a game at Stoke on Saturday and that is more important than all the rumours.
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On having a fully fit squad, Guardiola said: “No injuries from midweek”.
“Kelechi’s injury was nearly nothing so it was a scare but he’s fine”, he said. “It’s enough, we have 30 players, it’s enough”. It has happened this year and if I continue to train in the high level and we arrive in the Champions League it is going to happen more times. These guys who were here create this step and I respect (them) a lot.
He was also part of the UEFA Champions League-winning squad in 2015, but never played in the competition for Barca.
Torino finished 12th in last season’s Serie A.
“The first time it’s “wow” the second time it’s the second time, then it’s normal”.
But Hart has been told he leave the club before the end of the transfer window on Wednesday after falling down the pecking order under new manager Pep Guardiola.
City want a sizeable loan fee of around £7m for Hart, who also earns around £120,000-a-week. We’re going to decide the best for Joe but for Willy and Angus as well.
“It is not easy to leave a club like Barcelona where I had two fantastic years, but the opportunity to work with Pep Guardiola was too good to refuse”, Bravo said. Until now he’s our player and that’s all.
Koeman’s unequivocal response on Hart was at odds with his wider outlook on the final week of the transfer window. So if Joe, Willy and Angus stay, it won’t be the same one who is always on the bench. “Now we have one week and we have to make him [Hart] happy and if he can find a solution and find a club where he has a real chance to play regularly”.
Finally, Guardiola spoke on Aleks Kolarov and expressed his delight that the Serb has provided a new option at centre back.
“(City) is a place I love to be but situations occur in football but we are men, we get on with it.
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“He’s strong in the air, he passes between the lines or long balls to the other side for the right winger, so he has absolutely everything to play in that position”.
