Guardiola unsure of number of new signings City need in summer

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Guardiola unsure of number of new signings City need in summer  12/04/2025  Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK

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00:01Pep, Edison came off. Any update on what it might be?

00:06No. One month or two months ago, I had a problem with muscular.

00:09That's why I was a few days out.

00:11But when I passed to Gundogan, not to Makati, I felt the same feeling.

00:19That's why I came out.

00:21Pep, on Gundogan, has he now triggered his contract for next season?

00:26Does Kevin leaving, does that sort of alter your thinking on him at all?

00:30How important is it that he stays here?

00:32He has one more year contract, definitely.

00:35What's going to happen, I don't know, but how a more year contract now.

00:38Is it important?

00:40The Gundogan from Leicester, the Gundogan from Bournemouth, the Gundogan from today.

00:44It's the Gundogan I remember when we won the travel and quadruple

00:48and the important player.

00:50So his activity, his pace, his defensive intelligence arrived.

00:55Gundogan had been with us massively.

00:58And as a team, we could not help him.

01:01Because it's not about you, you, you.

01:03Everyone was down, was below because the team was not playing good.

01:08When the team played good, the individual rise.

01:10Without that, in modern football, you cannot do it.

01:14Simon?

01:15Six goals for Omar Mahmouche since he came.

01:19Is he another player who can smell the goal?

01:22And what have you made of him since he...

01:24And his runners.

01:25When a team likes to get the ball in the feet, he makes a runner.

01:29He understood the intensity you have to play.

01:32And yeah, look, have one goal again, could score easily.

01:37I don't know, in the first one it was being pulled for the defender

01:42and the last one for the assist from Kevin.

01:44With the score like Macca, three goals, easy.

01:46He's in front, one-on-one is the keeper.

01:47That is what the team has to try to do, deliver that.

01:50And after, score and score, the whole goal is to demand to score.

01:54But the only way to score or to create chances and score goals is to play good.

01:59And today we did it.

02:01It's not easy coming to a new league

02:03and it's not easy kind of stepping in to replace Erling Haaland,

02:06but he seems to be...

02:08The numbers are really good.

02:11The numbers are really, really, really good.

02:13So, right here at the impact in the middle of the season,

02:16and in the moment that we are not good.

02:18Sometimes come one player, whenever it's fluid and everything is fine,

02:21it's easy to adapt.

02:23But come when the team is not playing good in the other one,

02:26that is big value, big credit.

02:28Last one with James, please, guys.

02:30Hiya, Pat.

02:31In January you brought in four new players.

02:35Seeing what you're seeing now towards the end of this season,

02:38and having brought in four players in January,

02:40do you feel you need another four, that sort of number in the summer, or one or two?

02:44No idea.

02:45Really?

02:46Really.

02:48No, no, it's true.

02:50No idea.

02:51All the players are contracted, we'll see what happens.

02:54No idea.

02:55Is left-back a priority, if you may?

02:57Because you haven't had a dedicated career left-back for a few years.

03:00Obviously, Niko's helping us, but he's not a left-back.

03:03That's true.

03:05I play with Alex Inchenko left-back.

03:08With Fabian and Delph in the back.

03:11So, we find solutions many, many years.

03:14We have to give another quality.

03:15They help us.

03:16Alex and Fabian, for example.

03:17Or sometimes Rico, when I play the full-backs left,

03:20they help us massively.

03:23But, yeah, of course we don't have...

03:26Of course we can have with Nathan.

03:28But Nathan, like Jonah Stones, has been injured all the season.

03:34So, that's why...

03:35The most important thing is, from my point of view,

03:38I said to the club, which plays are reliable for the future?

03:41You cannot perform if you are not reliable, you are injured.

03:44So, this is the...

03:45Which plays that we have, they can play every three days,

03:48three days, three days, three days,

03:49or cannot play every three days, three days.

03:51And since then, build a squad for the next season.

03:53Thank you, guys.

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