Pep Guardiola: Man City chief says other clubs would also be released on the basis of the results of this season

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he would be released by any other club after the long -standing win of the Premier League champion earlier this season.

City downloaded by Manchester United rivals at Old Trafford Great Sundayto live on Sky SportsTrying to maintain his pressure for the Champions League football next season, as he has now started resembling a foreign party that has won the last four Premier League titles in a row.

However, such a scenario seemed to a distant dream for City fans after Tim Guardiola endured the horror race from just one victory in 13 games in all competitions in November and December, which made them left on a completely unknown seventh place on the boxer day.

The list of weakening injuries, including ACL, which ends the season for the key attachment of midfielder Rodri, is partly guilty of their sudden fall in shape, although the manager also raises his hands.

“One of the main reasons was the absence of many injured players in important wards, so we competed in the most difficult period with only 12 to 13 older players on the team,” Guardiola said.

“It’s hard every three days. In the past when we won a lot, even though we had a lot of problems. Not as much as this season, but a lot. We have always been able to bounce and overcome the situation.

“This season I was not able to help the team to do it. I was not able to find the right trick. In the past, I managed to lead them to the boys,” This is a path you have to do to survive at that moment, “because good moments will come. The sun is coming out in the future. We were unable to do it.”

However, although Guardiola admits that he was expecting a kind of falling in shape after his side won four direct titles, he didn’t think it would be so difficult.

“I said many times and I’m incredibly honest – the success we had in the past, it surprised me because I didn’t expect it,” he said.

“What happened this season, when in the last one or two seasons I said more or less that it would happen. But I didn’t expect maybe so deep, you know.

“I thought,” Okay, we’re going to fall. “But in terms of results, in terms of performance, we unexpectedly fell.”

So much, in fact, that in December, Guardiola – who signed a new two -year -old agreement in November in November – even said his job in City would be threatened, even signed a new two -year contract – even said his job in City would be threats if the team would soon start winning again.

City lost again that day because United came from behind to win 2-1 late, and Guardiola said he would have lost his job at any other club, without all the success he had brought to Etihad since 2016.

“In other clubs, without recent success, I would be fired, definitely,” he said. “This is a big club that you have to deliver good things.

In other clubs, without recent success, I would definitely be fired.

“But I also think that all of us, staff, me, deserve the opportunity, after what we have had in the past.

“In the second club, in the second environment, we lost a lot of games in big clubs, it can’t happen. But luckily, they (the City Committee) gave me a vote of confidence to continue.”

Looking forward to next season, Guardiola said he was expecting a return to the city of Old.

“We had bad moments in the moment, but listen to football, in sports, you have that period, so I said many times, you can’t win all the competitions you are in,” he said.

“You can’t win all the time because it’s just impossible. So, I never expect when we won the Premier League last season, we won in the next 10 years.

“So many things have happened. What happened last season, that doesn’t mean it will happen next season. We hope that next season will not happen like this season. Of course, we have to change things, definitely. But next season will be better.”

And while Guardiola said that he and his players would give everything in the last eight campaign games to qualify for the Champions League next season – City is currently sitting in fifth place, which, as things stand, would be enough to see them progressing in a European competition at the Prime Minister’s Club in Europe – he also emphasizes that it would not be the end of the world if they are not.

“How many important clubs have not played in the Champions League in the last three, four or five years and are still there? The club will find a solution,” he said. “Of course, we want to be there. But only in case it won’t happen, what’s next? We can’t just stop and constantly complain.

“Of course, that’s in our hands. We have eight games. So, we’re going to it. We are the only club in the last 15 years, every season has been in the Champions League. It’s a consistency. That’s the club, how well we did. And we want to continue that way.

“The club will not die. As for what we have to do for next season, to be there. But of course, we have our derby on Sunday. And after there are still seven games and four at home, three away. Everything is hard. I deny it because they are good.”

Guardiola, however, thinks he has seen enough in the FA Cup quarterfinals in the Bournemouth quarterfinals in the quarterfinals of Fa Cup, and at home at Leicester City on Wednesday to give him a really belief that his side is returning.

“In the last two games I’ve seen something I like,” he added. “I remember a few things we’ve seen in the past. And that’s what we have to build from there.”