Guardiola 'really, really optimistic' about his City team

Pep Guardiola says he feels that the Manchester City side are close to competing for titles this season

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00:00Still we are not our best, but we are close.

00:04I think I had the feeling, I said a month ago, of the smell that these words will be completely devastated if you don't get results.

00:16I know that, but the feeling when I see the team, when I see in the dressing room, in the trainings,

00:22how we apply, how we want to try to do things, I had the feeling that when I think Roderick can come his best,

00:30they will not be soon his best, but he can help us and alongside for all the alternatives I can have,

00:36we'll be a team that will be difficult for the opponents to beat us and this is one-on-one.

00:41Will we be there still close to the fight? I don't know.

00:47I said from the beginning, since I woke up in the States,

00:52I'm really, really optimistic about the team that's going to do this season.