Easy decision to come back to City - Gundogan
New Manchester City signing Ilkay Gundogan said it was an easy decision to return to the club after just one year at Barcelona and said his previous 7 year spell at City helped show how easy it would be to come back
Etihad Training Campus, Manchester, UK
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Etihad Training Campus, Manchester, UK
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00:00What were some of the main factors that helped you to make this decision?
00:04Well, obviously, the seven years I had here in my first spell, they played a big role.
00:10Getting to know this amazing club, getting to know the people working here, being behind everything.
00:16And, of course, also the friendships that you made and the memories that you had.
00:21But by saying that, I don't want it to sound too nostalgic, to be honest,
00:29because I don't want that time to be remembered as, OK, that wasn't the past.
00:35But it's still about competing, it's still about having that drive,
00:40it's still about trying to be the best version of yourself.
00:43And that's all an ambition that I still have incredibly much in myself,
00:48even though maybe being now 33 years old.
00:51But I still want to prove myself every day in training sessions and games
00:56and still become the best possible version of myself.
00:58I still have an incredible sense for winning, for competing.
01:05And I think the package that you get here, right now, today, you can't find it anywhere else.
01:13And that made it for me, to be honest, very, very easy to come back.