Pep Guardiola discussed the challenges facing Manchester City due to injuries and player availability issues.
Pep Guardiola said “The solution is give me players back and to do it, but it’s not possible right now and I think it isn’t going to happen for a long time. The reality is I will have few players to rotate in this type of period. When we arrive in the treble season and domestic treble it was because everyone was there. We have [on the bench], except [James] McAtee, Jack [Grealish] and Jeremy [Doku] the other ones were from the academy. And it’s going to happen for the next games, the next three weeks, one month it’s going to happen the same.”
Despite his own challenging circumstances and the difficulties facing his squad, Pep Guardiola urged his players to embrace the challenges and maintain their effort and determination.
Pep Guardiola said “I said to players, don’t feel sorry, please. Accept the challenge. It will be more difficult but maybe at the end we have more satisfaction in the way we are going to behave in these problems than maybe in the other seasons when we won the titles. It’s not a question of luck, it happens. It’s life, it happens, accept it, and this is the challenge. That’s why the challenge has been given. It’s football, we know this season will be like this. What Always all the teams want their players fit and ready. Sometimes unfortunately since the beginning it could not happen. It’s going to be [more difficult] for longer. One way or other we are going to try.”