Foden is one of City's best players and will get England recall - Guardiola - video Dailymotion

Pep Guardiola understands why Thomas Tuchel left Phil Foden out of the latest England squad, but backs his man

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00:00Tomas knows what he needs for the national team, a thousand times, a million times,

00:04a trillion times better than me.

00:07If he is still playing like he is playing, he will be back.

00:11Is the little part of you maybe relieved because the last thing he would need

00:16is to go away and maybe pick up an injury?

00:18I am happy that the players go to the national team,

00:22but I am even more happy when they come back healthier.

00:25This is the best player we have in the smallest spaces in the final third by far.

00:29sense of assist, especially sense of goals in the smallest spaces.

00:32How he turns an attack and the desire to score a goal is the best we have.