Guardiola admits City still trying to find their rhythm and composure

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Guardiola admits City still trying to find their rhythm and composure  23/08/2025 embargoed until 24/08/2025  Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK

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00:00At the moment with the end of the transfer window with players who might go and might come in

00:03and the season has started while the transfer window is still going on.

00:07Is that unsettling to the players and to you?

00:10And would it be easier if these things were all sorted before the season starts

00:14so you know where you're standing with the squad and the players know where they're standing?

00:17No, we never know.

00:18I think everybody's training really good.

00:20I don't have any complaints.

00:21They have energy.

00:22We have many good things and the quality they have.

00:25It's just today in the simple things we miss it.

00:27I know the aggression of that is high but the question of the pass is a little bit

00:32and yeah, we miss a little bit that, you know?

00:35We need more composed with the ball.

00:38But that through the games we're going to take it.

00:43You said a couple of times you missed the simple things today.

00:47Are those simple things harder to do when there's been so many new players brought in?

00:52I mean, I think it was only three players started today who started against Tottenham

00:56last year in the 4-0.

00:58Yeah, that's why I changed.

01:01Because if this is the argument, it's because I have to put a lot of players

01:04and we lost 0-4.

01:06So you give me the right, right?

01:08But are those simple things harder with so many new, young players in?

01:12Is that probably going to take a bit of time?

01:13It's the team we're going to do for the next year.

01:15This year is the next year.

01:16So we're having a squad and when finish next Sunday, when finish international break,

01:22you'll ask me what the squad I have and that, we'll move forward.

01:26We'll move forward for that.

01:28So maybe, maybe it will happen and maybe, but I take the decision because I fell at the training sessions.

01:36Nico is playing, make a step forward.

01:39Gianni is going there.

01:40I imagine in the last, when playing against Spurs or Bramford in the past,

01:47when we are able to drop them the defense so deep that they need talent, need quality, need a vision.

01:52Like Ryan Cherk is extraordinary for that.

01:54And I knew that when playing inside Rico, it's really, really good in small spaces in his work, I think.

02:02So many reasons that are involved.

02:03It depends how they defend the opponent and just is in the buildup.

02:08When having a man marking, they know it.

02:10You have to track them to find the next stages, next passes, and that we didn't read it.

02:15But a part of that, that is a big problem.

02:17When we arrive in the positions more comfortable, we lose the simple things because we need the continuity with the pass.

02:23We cannot attack in three passes, in four passes.

02:26We need that.

02:27And today, the play that we have, we miss it a little bit.

02:30That's all.

02:31Hi Pep.

02:32You caught Spurs out with offside quite a lot early on, but for the first goal, you got caught out with John Stone stepping up.

02:38It seems like that's a big thing you're putting a lot of emphasis on this season.

02:42Does that goal make you reassess the risk and reward of playing such an aggressive line?

02:47No, I don't think so.

02:48During 10 years, 14 years, 16 years, I like to be aggressor as a team.

02:52I like it.

02:53Sometimes we cannot do it.

02:54It was an action and slippery, you make offside or whatever, and for a sentiment as it happened.

03:01But, yeah, we'll continue to do it.

03:03We'll adjust, of course, it's not saying all the time.

03:05I'm not naive to say when the situation is going bad, but the intention to be aggressive, to be the game,

03:12we have done it all the time, so we'll continue to do it.

03:14Last two with Robert Paul, please.

03:15Can I just ask about Ryan Schierke, who made his first start today.

03:19Is it a lot different moving to the Premier League from French football?

03:22Is it going to take him a little bit of time to get that sort of rhythm?

03:25I've not been in French football, so I will not be manager there, so I don't know exactly what happened.

03:31But, of course, the new players do it, but that's why I get at home.

03:34He make an incredible 20 minutes involved, being involved in small spaces, make a fantastic goal.

03:39The creativity to find the wingers, to find Erling, to find Tijani, to find Rico,

03:45that all of them have good, good movements from behind, and that was the reason why.

03:49So it's the first game.

03:50He will learn and keep going.

03:53It's on the 8-0 repair.

03:55He came off in the first half.

03:57How serious is that?

03:57I didn't speak with the doctors yet.

04:00It looks like the uncle, but I didn't speak with the doctors yet.

04:03We have seven days.

04:04Hopefully, we can be recovered.

04:06Thank you, everyone.

04:07Thank you, guys.

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