Guardiola laughs off Barcelona links with Haaland

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Guardiola laughs off Barcelona links with Haaland  04/10/2025 embargoed from 03/10/25  CFGA, Manchester, UK

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00:00I love Erling Haaland as his dream signing.

00:04Is that at all a surprise to you?

00:07But also, does his length of contract give you some protection in the market?

00:13Can you tell me one club will not be Erling Haaland's dream?

00:17I understand Barcelona is a dream for Erling and all the clubs in the world.

00:22If Erling won't be with us, it would be a dream for Man City to have Erling.

00:26What is going to happen? Honestly, I don't know.

00:29I know he's a long contract here and I think he's doing really well,

00:35scoring a lot of goals and I had the feeling that the team helped him a lot

00:39and making a lot of actions to be able to score goals.

00:42He wants to play better, better to create more chances to score more goals.

00:46This is what happened.

00:47Always I want the team to concede less and create more.

00:51And after it's the only game.

00:53In football, you can create more, concede less and lose a game on a winning.

00:56It's the only sport in the world.

00:58Golf, basketball, handball, tennis.

01:00If the statistics are better, you win.

01:02Ten to ten. 100%.

01:03Football not.

01:04That's why when you have to create 19 shots, it's not enough.

01:08You have to create 25.

01:10It's not enough, it has to be 35.

01:12And this is what you have to do.

01:14Does his length of contract show that this is where he wants to be for the best player?

01:18I think Erling is not stupid enough to sign something he wouldn't like to accomplish.

01:23That's for sure.

01:24But football, who knows what is going to happen in the next time.

01:29So nobody knows.

01:31Hi Pep.

01:32There's been a lot of talk about this week about how difficult it can be to kind of embed new players into a system.

01:37Obviously Liverpool have struggled a bit this season to get going with all their new signings.

01:41You've had 10 new players in 2025.

01:44You've got an entirely new backroom staff this summer.

01:47I was wondering if you could explain a bit about how difficult it is to kind of balance those two.

01:52You've got these new players.

01:53You've got new backroom staff learning how things work.

01:55How big a challenge has that presented to you at the start of the season?

01:59The backroom staff I learned from them, not for us.

02:02And about Liverpool, I'm not the right person to answer this question.

02:06Because I'm not there.

02:08In terms of Manchester City, how hard has it been to kind of...

02:11When you've got 10 new players...

02:12When I arrived, after one year especially, we signed 10 players and we'll make 100 points.

02:18And win the Premier League, I think so.

02:21I don't know.

02:22The first season, 100 points?

02:23I don't know.

02:24So, yeah.

02:27But at the same time as I said before, maybe it's harder a bit, but it's nice.

02:32It's nice.

02:35As much as you know what you have to do to get better, it's top.

02:39I like it.

02:44Hi Pep.

02:45Obviously, Phil Foden had a few injuries over the last year.

02:49But it wasn't so long ago he admitted himself that he was struggling a little bit mentally.

02:54I mean, you're, as a manager obviously, you want the best players possible on the pitch.

02:58How important though was that patience with Phil to make sure that he was right both physically

03:03and mentally before you started bringing him back on the pitch again?

03:07You know how strong he is admitted at that, right?

03:10So a figure like Phil can be open-minded and speak all the world, society like today

03:17in the young teenagers and even old people have struggled with that.

03:22Nobody is away of that.

03:24Everyone can be that.

03:26And accept the reality.

03:28That's, wow.

03:29That's fantastic.

03:30That's why when I see him now and forget about it performing at the level he's performing

03:35because he's, pfff, he's top level.

03:38Defensive has been how his joy in the training session, his love, his vocal voice in the locker room,

03:46being back, pfff, it's enough.

03:49It's just what we want.

03:51The rest will help him to play as best as possible because that quality is being there.

03:57Be healthy, you know.

03:59Again, it's a sport.

04:00It's a win, lose, draw.

04:01And important is the human being being healthy with the family, with himself

04:06and do what you want to do.

04:08That is what we wanted.

04:12And I'm happy that step by step is top now, getting better.

04:17That's why, look, we see the games and they're involved in many, many things.

04:21How important was it for him to kind of be honest with himself about where he was

04:27and with the club, but also how important and how satisfying is it for a manager

04:32to see a player like that with a smile on his face again?

04:35It's everything.

04:36Only we know that for the last season always we are there, Phil.

04:40Always we are there.

04:41A club in that is beyond exceptional.

04:45So I have incredible human people help and help and help and never, never.

04:50When one person suffers a little bit this type of period in his life,

04:53like these two shall pass always life, good moments by moments always.

04:57This next chapter is really, really, really good to feel that.

05:01Always we felt that let them feel that we were there unconditionally whatever happened.

05:07I don't care your performance when you feel in that way.

05:11The human being comes first in front of everything in life.

05:15And we try to, you know, to carry the people in that way.

05:19So I'm happy that everybody knows.

05:22The level we played last season, the player in this season, this is not a situation.

05:26So, and even in that moment you play bad games.

05:30Of course, everyone can do that.

05:32The important thing is that it feels good.

05:34Thank you, everyone.

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