“But of course the best solution is to find the best for them, and of course for Joe, for Willy, for Angus, they need to play”.
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The jilted number one is in limbo with next week’s window about to close and no apparent takers for his services.
Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers believes that Liverpool should sign Joe Hart.
Guardiola has said the 29-year-old can move if he wishes but Everton, the club most strongly linked with the goalkeeper, have said they have no interest.
City’s fans sang “Don’t sell Joe Hart!” and “City’s number one!”, while a second-half chorus of “Stand up if you love Joe Hart!” drew nearly the whole stadium to its feet.
Hart, 29, is in limbo after losing his place as the club’s first-choice goalkeeper following Guardiola’s arrival and City are not reported to have received any bids for the England worldwide. I am so happy with the way people treat him and love him.
Bravo told the club’s website, www.mcfc.co.uk: “I’m very proud to be joining Manchester City”.
Guardiola said: “I know he is a left-back but how he played against Sunderland and against Bucharest, it is hard to find a centre-back better than him. We’re going to decide the best for Joe, but for Willy Caballero and Angus Gunn as well”, he said.
Caballero, who has started both Premier League games so far under Guardiola, looks set to face West Ham as the match comes too soon after Bravo’s switch from Barcelona.
Bravo went on to describe how hard it was for him to leave Barcelona, where he had won La Liga twice and the UEFA Champions League as well, saying “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”.
It is therefore likely Caballero will play, even though England worldwide Hart returned for Wednesday’s Champions League play-off victory over Steaua Bucharest.
Being used by the Catalan club in LaLiga games – 70 in total – and virtually no other competitions, he has helped them secure the title in each of the last two seasons.
Hart is set to leave City after being reduced to a fringe role since Pep Guardiola’s arrival as manager and the England global had been strongly linked with a switch to Everton.
“After West Ham we will continue to speak to [director of football] Txiki [Begiristain] and we are going to see what the situation is for them”.
“I spent most of my life there”.
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“It happened last season with Bayern Munich”.
