Guardiola admits increasing squad size is not financially viable as he struggles to turn City around

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Guardiola admits increasing squad size is not financially viable as he struggles to turn City around  13/12/2024 embargoed until 14/12/2024  CFGA, Manchester, Uk

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00:00When results aren't going your way, when times are maybe tougher than usual,

00:06it's always the manager who is called on to inspire the players.

00:11Where do you turn to for your inspiration? Where do you get yours from?

00:17A good question. For my closest people, I would say.

00:23And reflect a lot and think a lot.

00:26I think what people think about what happens is necessary.

00:30I think all the managers, not right now in my case,

00:34you are alone in the decisions.

00:36You can share opinions and listen to opinions,

00:39but in the end it's you and your decisions you have to make.

00:43But ultimately it comes down on you, doesn't it?

00:45Yeah, that's why I am well paid.

00:51If I don't want that, if I don't want what happens, all the comments after the game,

00:55I have to get it off and I have to go to another job.

00:58It's not new.

01:00I didn't expect that the good moments would happen in the past,

01:04give me time in the bad moments.

01:06Never, ever happened in any manager in all the history.

01:10There's a reason, but I'm calm because I know the reason why when we were winning,

01:15I know the reason why we are losing.

01:17I don't know, all of you.

01:19The people don't know the reason how I want to ask to know exactly why we are losing.

01:23I know it because I'm there and I know the process and things that,

01:27of course, you don't have to know it.

01:29So this is the truth.

01:31So that's why I'm aware of how is the team for the circumstances

01:34and many little details how we are playing.

01:36It's not enough.

01:38I know that the players are not stupid.

01:40They know it.

01:42They taste the highest level in consistency.

01:46It doesn't matter what happens, always we found a way to win the games.

01:50Now we don't have the way to win the games.

01:52Even playing good moments or bad moments, we don't have it.

01:55So they crossed the halfway, you went to six times.

01:58Six times.

02:00Six times they crossed the halfway.

02:02So away in Champions League, the biggest English team there.

02:05So it's quite good.

02:07But it's not enough.

02:08We defend poorly.

02:10In attack, we are right there.

02:11Come on, shoot.

02:12We don't shoot.

02:13So, of course, we have to do many good things.

02:15The players know it.

02:16Of course, we have to improve.

02:18So it's not defense.

02:19It's the results.

02:20I don't have defense.

02:21We don't have defense.

02:22How you sustained the last nine games, you lost seven.

02:25A team when we win the season,

02:27maybe to lose seven games in one season didn't happen.

02:29And now another half happened.

02:31But it's football.

02:32It's life.

02:33I was thinking about that.

02:34It didn't happen.

02:35No.

02:36You tell me a month ago when we were top of the league and beaten,

02:38the only English team and beaten,

02:39we're going to lose the next nine, seven.

02:41Are you crazy?

02:42It's not going to happen in my team.

02:43It's happened.

02:44And maybe we can lose more.

02:46When you go through periods like that,

02:48I don't know if you've ever been through a period,

02:49but when you go through dips,

02:50does that make the good times even better when you come out and you're winning?

02:54Because I suppose if you're winning all the time.

02:56I know the people better.

02:59I know who they are wearing behind the scenes and how they come up.

03:02So, yeah, that's for sure.

03:03But the important is how we are inside,

03:06how the players feel and the staff.

03:10There is one thing when I would say,

03:13Pep, you have to think about it.

03:16It's when I lose the team.

03:18When I feel they don't run,

03:19I feel for everybody knows the manager,

03:21I lost the team.

03:23They don't follow me.

03:24In that moment, no one more minute will be here.

03:28But the moment is there.

03:32More than ever, I am there.

03:34More than ever.

03:35There's no doubt about that.

03:37And that can happen for the results,

03:38can happen for the style of direction,

03:40can happen because we are tired from many things.

03:43And I said one month ago, it should happen.

03:45And it should happen for one reason,

03:47the schedules for the injuries.

03:49I don't know what happened with all the players there.

03:52With Rodri there.

03:53Most of the problems are being there,

03:55with Phil there, with Oscar there,

03:56with the four central defenders there.

03:58I don't know what the position that would be.

04:00I imagine what it would be.

04:02I cannot prove it, right?

04:04Nobody knows what will happen.

04:06But I think it will be a better team.

04:08Everybody knows, I think.

04:10Just for the fact what happened in the past.

04:12But the reality is completely the opposite.

04:14Sometimes, sometimes it happens.

04:16Put an example.

04:18So, Liverpool were seven for the Europa League qualifier

04:21when many injuries happened.

04:23So, all that matters depends on the quality of the players.

04:26I'm not special.

04:27I didn't feel special before.

04:29Not now.

04:30But I don't feel bad now.

04:32Because always I make a contract with a football player.

04:35This business belongs to the players.

04:37And we are here to support them.

04:38But now, for the problems we have,

04:40it is a schedule.

04:41Crazy ones.

04:43So, why is Inger Rodriguez?

04:45He played 75 games last season.

04:47When I finished, I was on holiday.

04:49He was the Euro to win the Euro with Spain.

04:51And Inger with Spain and come back.

04:53And one game, two games.

04:55Do you know being fresh in the ACL?

04:57No.

04:58I promise.

04:59Strong is Rodriguez.

05:01But come back tired.

05:03Not on the top.

05:04But I need him against Inter.

05:05I need him against Arsenal.

05:06Not being on the top.

05:07You are not strong enough.

05:09And unfortunately it happens.

05:11And unfortunately it happens.

05:12The reason why?

05:13The schedule.

05:14Give you one month and a half, two months holidays.

05:16Give to Rodri.

05:17Two months holidays.

05:18After Euros.

05:19Like NBA.

05:20Three months they have.

05:21Four months they have.

05:22Tell them.

05:23It will be perfect.

05:24And I have to play 80 games if you want.

05:25But give three months.

05:27But next season.

05:28Next season, Manchester City.

05:30Or Chelsea already has a squad.

05:34There have to be 30 players.

05:3525, 30.

05:37How you sustain the club?

05:38That's economically, financially.

05:40We don't have revenue next season.

05:41Impossible.

05:44Impossible.

05:45Why we have revenue this season?

05:47We sell a lot of players.

05:49The academy especially.

05:50A lot.

05:51Julián and the other ones.

05:52A lot.

05:54Combine the financial and the demands for the team.

06:00It's tough.

06:01We would like to have 70, 80, 90 players.

06:03Financially, the conductor for the team is perfect.

06:06Today in the modern football it's impossible.

06:09Impossible.

06:10Even with 22, 23 years old, the young ones.

06:14In one team we say, no, because we work differently.

06:17We work perfectly in the preparation, physical preparation.

06:20No, because our nutrition is more special than the other clubs.

06:23No, because our beds are tough to rest.

06:28You see that, yeah?

06:29Next year, seven injuries.

06:31Doing the same.

06:34The schedule.

06:35Don't look at another way.

06:37Impossible.

06:40Pep, we can see your determination to turn this thing around,

06:43the way you're speaking now.

06:45When you get City back with an Olympic trophy,

06:48do you feel it's only your greatest achievements

06:50because you've come from this low?

06:52Or will it just be another one?

06:54The greatest achievement has already been done.

06:58I'm sorry.

07:00We have been the best.

07:02And we are not the best because we don't have the players.

07:04We don't have the players.

07:05Otherwise, Liverpool, we would be close, my friends.

07:09Close.

07:10But now we realise how difficult it was, what we have done.

07:14And when we come back, of course.

07:17When we come back, of course, we will be...

07:19Wow.

07:20We will not forget that moment.

07:23Because we want it and we do it and we are not able.

07:26We don't have defence, my friends.

07:28We don't have.

07:29We lose too many games.

07:30And when that happens,

07:32all the criticisms and the first judge deserve it.

07:38But I have to analyse a little bit the reason why.

07:40And there are moments that...

07:41Because another issue, there are things that I need to train.

07:45I need to practise.

07:46For the players to improve, I need to practise.

07:50When?

07:54Normally, when you have a game, the day after recovery,

07:56and they train the players like they didn't play the day before.

08:01They have seven, eight players, nine, the academy come.

08:04One player half.

08:06I have one player.

08:09So I don't have...

08:10We don't have time to practise all the mistakes that we have.

08:12We have a lot of mistakes, but we don't have time.

08:14With the video, the video is not enough.

08:16You have to practise.

08:17You have to...

08:18To be a writer, it's not necessary to read the books.

08:21You have to practise to write a novel.

08:25At least, unless you are William Shakespeare,

08:27after that, you don't need anything.

08:31Pep, this might be a short answer,

08:33but I just wondered, with all the problems that you're having,

08:35and you've explained,

08:36if you have any regrets at all or second thoughts

08:38about signing your contract extension?

08:41Absolutely not.

08:42I will regret leaving now.

08:45I could not sleep.

08:46Even worse than now, that I think now I'm leaving

08:48and leave the situation.

08:49Impossible.

08:51They will sack me.

08:52That can happen.

08:54But leaving now?

08:55No chance.

08:57If my boss, Khaldun, is not happy with me,

08:59they can do it.

09:01But leaving now in that position?

09:03No chance.

09:05No, no, no.

09:07Do you want to leave on top like Fergie did?

09:09No, no, no.

09:10Not even that.

09:11When I feel it's time to leave, I will leave.

09:13Not because I'm here or there.

09:15No, no, no.

09:16What we have done, we have done it.

09:18Satisfaction to do it, it's done.

09:20I don't have any, I would say, target to make my life

09:24or my tenure here, or my time here,

09:26completely different.

09:27Impossible.

09:29I leave tomorrow, I leave in a bit.

09:31I've been the best in this club.

09:34I will never, never, ever forget.

09:37No, no, no.

09:38I will not leave until I win another Premier League

09:40or Champions League.

09:41No, no, no.

09:42It's done.

09:43It's accomplished.

09:44The way we have played, the numbers and everything,

09:46always will remain.

09:47But now, in that situation, I could not leave.

09:50I could not leave.

09:51Of course, you have to do many things to do.

09:53To go to the market in the right moments,

09:54maybe in winter, or the other one, or the other one.

09:57For the reason I said, to make a better squad,

10:00for they compete each other,

10:02to outcome the best of every player competing,

10:04you know, during the week as enemies

10:08and the weekend as friends, against the opponents.

10:11So, that is for sure.

10:13But, listen, if I'm losing, and losing, and losing,

10:17and losing, one month more of losing,

10:19at the end I will say,

10:20it took someone else to fix these kind of things,

10:23because it cannot be eternal.

10:25Because, I said, you have to be honest.

10:29Still, I didn't feel, you know, to be, you know,

10:33get you off of my job,

10:34because we have done it in the past.

10:35So, I don't know if in a big, big club,

10:38in a big, big club,

10:39in the last nine games, lose seven,

10:40I don't know if I have the confidence that I have

10:42right now for all the departments.

10:44But it happened because we have done.

10:46And recently, the players and the club know

10:48the situation is completely exceptional

10:50for many, many reasons.

10:52But, I think, I'm not stupid to know that

10:57a lot of games lose and you have to do it better

11:01and you have to win.

11:03But, we try it.

11:05Every day we try it, but it's not enough.

11:08Thank you, guys.

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