Guardiola on transitional signings and having a smaller squad

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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola on the transformation of the squad, a transitional period and only having a 16 man squad now, player departures ahead of the derby against Manchester United Eithad Training Campus, Manchester, UK

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00:00Just on them, you know, there's a lot of senior players that have left.

00:04Chiqui's also left this summer, 10th new players since January.

00:07Does it feel like you're almost back in 2016 starting over again?

00:12I had her in that time.

00:15I was younger.

00:17Ten years is a lot of time.

00:19It's not the same.

00:21Any one of us is the same after ten years, but yeah, that's true.

00:25When you change ten players, it has been really, really important.

00:28Every time you have made a process.

00:31Last season, before we started, we just bought Savinho

00:34because I rely a lot on the players that we had.

00:37But after last season happened many, many things in terms of injuries,

00:42in terms of many, many problems that we had,

00:45and the club decided not for now, for the next years,

00:48to make the first step to do it.

00:53And I would love to have, you know, for the players for eight years ago,

00:57seven years ago or six years ago, but it's impossible.

01:00In any club, always there are changes.

01:02And, of course, when you change ten players in a period for four or five months,

01:06of course, everything needs to be settled, fixed and coordinated.

01:12And we are doing very, many good things.

01:15But still, we have to be, of course, more consistent than we have been.

01:19But step by step, we do it.

01:21I know you were probably bored with us asking about the squad size

01:24during the transfer window.

01:25Has it been slightly easier for you to pick a squad for this weekend,

01:29having let a few players go out the door?

01:31Yeah, I have 16 players available now.

01:33Yeah, it's easier.

01:34I don't have 26.

01:35Yeah.

01:36On the next bit.

01:37So yeah.

01:38Chicken.

01:40Yeah.

01:41Yeah.

01:42Ableigh.

01:44It's better to appear in the-

01:51Who is in your幫忙.

01:57Yeah.

01:58Oh god.

01:59Yeah.

02:00Oh god.

02:01That's it.

02:03Yeah.

02:04Yeah.

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