Guardiola on Walker leaving City and Grealish performance

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Guardiola on Walker leaving City and Grealish performance   11/01/2025  Etihad stadium, Manchester, UK

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00:00Are you willing to let Kyle leave this month?

00:03Listen, I explained what I spend and I'm going further than that.

00:08So I said to him, now it's a question of the market,

00:14a question of his incredible play with incredible physicality,

00:18when his focus is unstoppable as a right back.

00:23He's a top class player.

00:25He's fit because he's fit in mind that he can play one, two, three, four more years as a professional.

00:32Because I never see a player with these physical conditions in my career.

00:40And of course I never, never, never have the desire for one player,

00:44but the other option has to be agreement with the club.

00:47And I'm sorry, I was never involved, never, ever, with all the players.

00:54Just because you said you didn't want to lose any players this month,

00:57but if he wants to go and the club agrees?

01:00I think I was clear for all the time.

01:03If you want to explore the club, we're going to explore,

01:06and he has to decide, not me.

01:09I'm sorry, it's not my decision.

01:14Can I just ask about Jack?

01:15It's been a year since he scored and I know that stats don't mean everything,

01:19but just from a personal point of view for him,

01:21was it a big deal for him to score tonight?

01:23Yeah, of course it's that, of course.

01:25And make the first assist, the first goal, assist in the last one with Mkhitaryan.

01:30I know he's a player like not doing that, but of course,

01:34hopefully we can help him, you know, because of course the players who have played up front,

01:39we have to deliver.

01:40But not him, Doku and Savino and Erling Haaland and Kevin Wynne played there

01:45and Bernardo played there, Agundo played there.

01:48They have to score goals, and assists and goals, and assists and goals.

01:51Otherwise, if you have to rely on just the goals with Erling Haaland, it's impossible.

01:56The biggest clubs who won the championship, who won the championship in many ways,

02:00it was the strikers who scored a goal, in the past with Sergio, with Gabriel,

02:03with Jesus, with everyone, but Riyad and Leroy and Rahim and Agundo.

02:10It was a lot of players who scored a lot of goals.

02:14And we need that, otherwise we cannot sustain.

02:17Had you sensed that it maybe was getting to Jack a little bit,

02:20that it was affecting him, that it had been so long since he scored?

02:24Of course I am really pleased.

02:28I want the best for my players, all of them.

02:31I want them to perform well.

02:33I want it, and if you ask me, more than pleased, there's no other person I can be.

02:38But at the end, they have to deliver.

02:40But not him, it's not Paul and Jack, absolutely.

02:43It's many years.

02:45I see him in the year of the treble, for example, he was a main player for us.

02:54But after that, he played more or less.

02:57There are two options.

02:59Think about it's me, or think about who can do better.

03:02Not Jack, everyone.

03:04Because I know we're the best, all the players that we have here,

03:07I know they're the best.

03:09They help us to win what we want.

03:11But that is the reality.

03:13Last one with Dave, please, guys.

03:15I'm just briefly back on Kyle.

03:17Will you continue to not select him whilst the future remains unresolved?

03:22I don't know, it depends on how we're going to train.

03:25He's the captain as well, so is that...?

03:27I cannot answer that question, it depends on him.

03:31It was today.

03:33So the door is not closed on him coming back into the team?

03:37The situation is different now, of course.

03:39But the transfer window will finish when it finishes,

03:42I don't know what's going to happen.

03:44Thank you, guys.

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