Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola admitted the club have taken a risk by not moving to replace Julian Alvarez in the transfer market but insisted he has more than enough options in attack.It has been a quiet summer for the Premier League champions, with the return of Ilkay Gundogan and the signing of Savinho the only incomings, while James McAtee has joined the first-team squad after spending the last two seasons on loan at Sheffield United.Alvarez, meanwhile, departed for Atletico Madrid earlier this month.
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00:00If the club did need more time because the Alvarez deal happened later, I mean, what's the situation with that?
00:04I'm happy with the squad. So we didn't expect Julian was leaving, but I don't know because
00:11he had conversations for a long time ago with other clubs, his agent, so
00:15could happen, but at the end always you think maybe he's going to stay, but that didn't happen and after we yeah, we saw
00:21but we have
00:23Of course, you have many many injuries would be a problem
00:25but hopefully, you know in two three months it's back Oscar and Phil is in that position and
00:32Makati can play in that position, Gündogan can play in that position, Bernardo can play in that position in different type of players like Erling of course
00:40So and maybe it's a mistake. I don't know but I like to to work with not a long long long squad
00:45I don't like to
00:46Leave a lot of players without playing for a long long time
00:49it was I feel when everybody's involved and with the chance to play the
00:53The performance of the team is always better. So and that's why I prefer I know the group. I know how
00:59Incorrupt serious and professional they are and commitment in every single game and that we decide to go
01:05We you're right when we are not pretty pretty pretty sure it's better wait