Guardiola admits City are miles away from rediscovering their form
04/01/2025 embargo until 05/01
Etihad Stadium, Manchester, Uk
04/01/2025 embargo until 05/01
Etihad Stadium, Manchester, Uk
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00:00The game was a little bit upset with the crowd reaction when West Ham scored one.
00:04I think he felt there was a bit of anxiety and edginess.
00:08What's your message to the City fans in the stadium?
00:11City fans saw, like maybe you didn't see,
00:14played really good and they won that.
00:16And you have to try to deliver to them.
00:18I know that the fans know that they are struggling now, but it's okay.
00:23Life is not perfect.
00:24Life is not everything.
00:25During the next 20 years, the next century, City is going to be in the Premier League.
00:30So it sometimes happens.
00:32You know, it's accepted reality, they're struggling, they support us,
00:35and they're going to be behind us and try to do it.
00:37And we want to do it, but sometimes it happens.
00:39But it normally happens, that reaction.
00:41It's normal.
00:42Why?
00:43Because they saw something unique that this country never saw before.
00:46I'm sorry, in terms of titles.
00:48Not in football, because Liverpool and Chelsea and United, of course,
00:52and Arsenal and everyone has his period.
00:54That was brilliant.
00:55But it was brilliant.
00:56And they see that, oh, that is not, maybe the same year is not.
00:58Yeah, but we will do it.
01:00We're back again.
01:02I want to, I want to fight.
01:04I want to try to deliver to the makers we're proud.
01:08So it's not.
01:08And, of course, if they help us, we'll be here.
01:12That's for sure.
01:12If they help us, the distance to come back what we were, will be short.
01:18Because they are human beings.
01:19They want to try to do it, because I know they want to do it.
01:22My players, I know them perfectly.
01:25Almost all of them, they want to do it.
01:26They are ahead.
01:27They want to try to do it.
01:28And that is enough.
01:30But it's them.
01:31And always the fans are right.
01:33So they come here to be delivered something like,
01:35I want to see something that I enjoy it.
01:38In some moments, we do it.
01:39You know, some moments we are, oh, God, create chances and do it.
01:42But not in the way we were.
01:44But the players know it.
01:46Because they know, the players know, we were there.
01:49I go there and after a while, oh, guys, you are fantastic.
01:51I said, Pep, what are you saying?
01:53We were there.
01:55We know that when we were in our best, don't lie to us.
02:00And you cannot improve, get forward.
02:01You don't accept your reality.
02:03Me as a manager and the players.
02:05If the players, they believe what they have done enough in the past,
02:08it's enough to let the car to play and do that.
02:11If they believe they are wrong with me, they are wrong.
02:14Completely.
02:15But I see every day, the training session, the kilometers they play,
02:17the way they play, and as much that they deserve.
02:21With the problems that we have, you know,
02:22still we have a lot of absence.
02:24But step by step today, Nathan, like I want to say thank you publicly
02:30because playing in bad conditions the last two or three games,
02:33especially in Everton and Leicester,
02:35they make an effort because it was not full, full recover.
02:38And with Nathan, we are better.
02:40You know, it's so stable emotionally.
02:42This anxiety, like I said, it's so stable there.
02:45And with that, and hopefully Ruben and John and, you know,
02:48the players come back step by step
02:50and we can find the right moment.
02:53Dave and Jack, please go.
02:54Dave.
02:55Hi Pep.
02:56You talked about the contribution of Savino
02:58and how decisive he's been in the last few games.
03:01How important can that be for a player like Jack Grealish
03:03in almost reminding him what he has to do
03:06and showing him the level he has to get to win back his place?
03:09It's easy.
03:10As much as he looks himself,
03:11and we see the contention,
03:13so they have to compete themselves.
03:15And now Savino is in better shape and everything than Jack.
03:19And that's why I played Savino.
03:23I wanted Jack for the time to travel.
03:25Yeah, I wanted.
03:29But I tried to be honest with myself, you know, for that.
03:33And what happened with Savino delivery in the box
03:36is higher than maybe the other wingers in that position.
03:40And they have to fight.
03:41You can say, OK, now it's unfair.
03:43OK, if you decide to think about that, it's fine.
03:47You have to prove, OK, I'm going to fight with Savino
03:50to deserve to play, you know, in that position.
03:54And every single day and every single week
03:55and every single month.
03:57And that is because I fought a lot for him.
04:01I fought a lot to be here, to come on, do it again, do it again.
04:04And I know I can do it, but I saw him.
04:06I saw him.
04:08It's not I never see one play Jack or the other one.
04:11No, I saw him.
04:12I saw your level.
04:13And I want that.
04:14Every single training session, every single game.
04:17That Savino, there is someone in this in this room
04:20that Savino don't deserve right now, doesn't deserve to play.
04:23No, deserve.
04:25So that's why I play.
04:26Because he produced, you know, goal the other day.
04:29And Everton was brilliant.
04:31And Leicester make the first goal and today make a goal
04:34and two unbelievable assists.
04:36The second goal from the beginning, that is top.
04:39So this is, that's why I played.
04:42So I would love to play football.
04:44I was a brilliant football player.
04:45You don't remember that, but I was a football player
04:47and I would like to play.
04:48I can't.
04:50I don't perform well.
04:50I cannot.
04:52Yeah.
04:54Just, just on Grealish.
04:56He seems to be in the team for a few weeks.
04:58Maybe put in a good performance and then drop out.
05:02What, what are you not seeing from him?
05:03He was injured again.
05:05He was injured.
05:08Two weeks ago he was injured.
05:09And he injured and need rhythm and play.
05:11Players and trainings and game to win the minutes half with that.
05:14I don't have any doubts about the quality of Jack.
05:17Any of his players would not be here.
05:20But there are, you know, they have to.
05:24It's right now, today at 3 p.m.
05:26Do our best.
05:27It's not about what we have done or what we will do.
05:29It's 3 p.m.
05:31The one hour, 30 minutes or one hour, 45 minutes,
05:33we're going to play.
05:34The responsibility belongs to the players, not to me.
05:37With the training before, when I prepared the trainings,
05:40now here is my responsibility.
05:41But on the pitch, it belongs to them.
05:44The goal is for Merlin.
05:46We won for Savino.
05:47We won for how we would defend the transitions.
05:51The good for Merlin.
05:52We won for that, not for me.
05:54How boring it would be with the players and never succeeded for the manager.
05:57The manager, I'm here talking because I have to come here for the contract.
06:01It belongs to the players, absolutely.
06:03The one hour, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, it's for them.
06:06It's not zero responsibility for me.
06:08I can suggest, but it's them.
06:10Ah, before, here, and before, after, it's my responsibility.
06:14And they have to take it, and they have to deliver.
06:17Every single game, what they have done.
06:20Thank you, guys.