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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he would be released by any other club after a long run without the Premier League victory at the beginning of this season.
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Such a scenario, however, seemed to be a distant dream for fans of the city after the Guardiole team tolerated a horror run of just one victory in 13 games in all competitions in November and December, who disappeared in a completely unknown seventh place in the table of boxing.
The weakening list of injuries, including the season ending ACL for the key to the midfielder Rodri, was partly to blame for their surprising abyss in the form, although the manager also holds his hands up.
“One of the main reasons was the absence of many injured players in important departments, so we competed in the most difficult period with only 12 to 13 older players in the team,” Guardiola said.
“It’s difficult every three days. In the past, when we won a lot, even though we had a lot of problems. Not as much as this season, but a lot. We’ve always been able to bounce and overcome the situation.
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“This season I was unable to help the team to do it. I wasn’t able to find the right trick. In the past I could lead them to tell the boys:
Although Guardiola admits that after his party won four direct titles, he expected to win four direct titles in the form, he didn’t think it would be so difficult.
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“I have said many times and I am incredibly honest – the success we had in the past surprised me because I did not expect it,” he said.
“What happened this season when I said more or less in the last or two season, I said it would happen. But I didn’t expect maybe so deep, you know.
“I thought,” Okay, we’ll drop.
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So much that in fact that he is heading to the previous Manchester Derby in December Etihad, Guardiola – who signed a new two -year agreement in November – even said his work in the city would be jeopardized if the team soon began to win again.
The city lost that day when United came from behind to win 2-1 late and Guardiola said that in any other club, without all the success he had brought to Etihad since 2016, would lose his job.
“In other clubs, without recent success, I would definitely be released,” he said. “It’s a big club that you have to give good things.
In other clubs, without recent success, I would definitely be released.
“But I also think we are all, staff, me, we deserve a chance, after we had in the past.
“In another club, in another environment, we lost a lot of games in big clubs, it can’t happen. But fortunately (city council) voted on trust to continue.”
Looking at the next season, however, Guardiola said he was expecting to return to the city.
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“We had bad moments at the moment, but listen, in football, sports, you have this period, so I also said many times, you can’t win all the competitions you are in,” he said.
“You can’t win all the time because it’s just impossible. So I never expect when we won the Premier League last season, we won the next 10 years.”
“So many things happened. What happened last season does not mean that it will happen next season. Hopefully next season will not happen as this season. Of course we have to change things, certainly next season. But next season will be better.”
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And while Guardiola said that he and his players would give everything in the last eight games to qualify for the Champions League next season – the city is currently sitting in fifth place, which would be enough to see how they advance to the European premiere club competition.
“How many important clubs haven’t played in the Champions League in the last three, four or five years and are there still a solution,” he said. “Of course we want to be there. But just in case it doesn’t happen what happens next? We can’t just stop and complain all the time.
“Of course it’s in our hands. We have eight games. So we’re going to do it. We’re the only club in the last 15 years, every season was in the Champions League. That’s consistency. This is a club as we did it. And we want to continue that.
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“The club will not die. As for what we have to do for the next season, be there. But of course we have our derby on Sunday. And after seven games and four at home, three.
But Guardiola thinks he saw enough of the last two victories in Bournemouth in the quarterfinals of the FA Cup on Sunday and at home in Leicester City in the league to give him the real belief that his party was back.
“In the last two games I have seen something I like,” he added. “I remember a few things we have seen in the past. And that’s what we have to build from there.”
