Pep Guardiola insists that Manchester city share the same hunger to win the premiership league title just as their rivals, hence warning, that the perfection is still need for the players to win the title.
It has been a difficult week for the city rivals so far, with Arsenal beating Chelsea to 5-0 on Tuesday before liverpool’s defeat from Everton on Wednesday at the merseyside derby. with those results, it only means the gunners are at a place of four points clear from city and liverpool, with all these the title might still be in the hands of Manchester city. On Thursday, the team will move to Brighton and Hove Albion before facing Nothingham forest on Sunday, and Guardiola still thinks even the slightest mistake might cost the club the title.
Asked if city needs all the six wins to claim the title, Guardiola said “yes, absolutely, they gave us a chance, with the fact that they lost last week to Aston Villa and crystal palace, but we knew that we had to do more before those games, and now we have win all games so that at the end, we have it in our hands to retain our title, nothing changes, the fact is, we knew what we had to before and now nothing has changed”
When asked if city are motivated to win the title since their rivals has lifted their trophies in five of their seven season under him to date, he answered ” i would not be here, if not there are so many games and to be in this position after what we have done in the past, it would not be possible ( without the desire) we know the difficulty is extreme and it will remain difficult because we have tough games coming up, we go one game at a time and we know that if we lose, it will be so tough to retain the title”
“Last Saturday proved the so many difficulties we have, especially the schedule and the recovery time after the game against real Madrid, the players were unbelievable” hitting out the busy schedule of after Saturday’s FA cup semi final win over Chelsea , he said, he couldn’t understand how his players managed to perform just three days after their penalty shoot out to real madrid. When asked if elite clubs had the right to complain while organizing money spinning pre- season tours around the globe.
He said ” Yeah, but we have to do it, we have to pay the salaries of players and the manager, and the club has fans all over the world who wants to see us, they are income for us, it is not easy but we have get resources, i would love to say i don’t go to another continent to play, have another week of holiday and then train there but we have to understand the club, it is not just Man city, every club needs those financial resources to be sustainable, now that we have won a lot, for many years we have had a lot of supporters, that’s why it is necessary to do and you have to adapt”
