
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said he would have been fired by any other club after numerous seasons of the Premier League title in a long history earlier this season.
City competes at Old Trafford rival Manchester United Super Sunday,continue Sky movementtrying to sustain the progress of Champions League football next season, is now starting to be like a team with four consecutive Premier League titles.
However, the team at Guardiola suffered a win-win horror film in all matches in November and December, which put them in fear in the 7th place that was completely unfamiliar on Boxing Day, which seemed like a distant dream for the city’s fans.
The debilitating injury roster, including the season-end ACL, was used for key midfielder Rodri, in part because of their unexpected form, although the manager also raised his hands.
“One of the main reasons is that there are many injured players in the important department, so we compete in the toughest times with only 12 to 13 senior players,” Guardiola said.
“It’s been difficult every three days. In the past games, although we’ve had a lot of problems. Not so many this season, but a lot. Always able to rebound and overcome the situation.
“I can’t help the team do this this season. I can’t find the right trick. In the past, I was able to guide them and tell the guys, ‘This is the way you survive in that moment’, because good times will come. The sun will rise in the future. We can’t do it.”
But while Guardiola expects some form of decline after admitting his team won four consecutive titles, he doesn’t think it’s so serious.
“I said it a lot, and I’m very honest – I’m surprised by the successes of our past because I didn’t expect it.”
“What happened this season, in the last or two, I said it would happen. But I didn’t expect it could be so deep, you know.
“I thought, ‘Okay, we’re going to drop’. But, in terms of performance, we’re going to drop unexpectedly.”
In fact, it’s so much that Guardiola entered Etihad’s former Manchester Derby in December – he signed a new two-year contract in November – even saying that his job in the city would be at risk if the team doesn’t start winning soon.
United won 2-1 from the back that day, and Guardiola said at any other club, he would lose his job at all the success he has brought to Etihad since 2016.
“In other clubs, I would definitely be fired without recent success,” he said. “It’s a big club and you have to offer good stuff.
“But I also think that all of us, our staff, myself, we should all have the opportunity, after the past.
“In another club, in another environment, we lost a lot of games in a big club, which was impossible to happen. But, fortunately, they (the City Council) gave me a vote of confidence and went on.”
However, Guardiola said he expects to return to the old city to look to the next season.
“Currently, we have bad moments, but in football, sports, you have that period, so I said a lot of times, you can’t win all the games that you play in.”
“You can’t always win because it’s totally impossible. So, I never thought I’d won the Premier League last season and we won the championship for the next 10 years.
“A lot of things happened. What happened last season, and that doesn’t mean the next season will happen. Hopefully next season won’t happen like this season. Of course, we absolutely have to change things. But next season will be better.”
Although Guardiola said he and his players would give everything in the final eight games of the campaign to qualify for next season’s Champions League – currently ranked fifth because that’s enough to see them enter the premiere club competition in Europe – he was also quick to point out that if they don’t, it wouldn’t be the end of the world.
“How many important clubs have been in the Champions League in the last three, four or five years, but are they still there? Clubs will find solutions,” he said. “Of course, we want to be there. But, just in case, what’s next? We can’t stop and complain all the time.
“Of course, it’s in our hands. We have eight games. So, we’re going to keep going. We’re the only club in the last 15 years and have played in the Champions League every season. That’s consistency. That’s the club, we’re doing a great job. We hope to continue that way.
“The club is not going to die. As far as we are going to do next season.
However, Guardiola believes he saw City’s last two wins at home in the FA Cup quarterfinals on Sunday at his home in Bournemouth and in the league’s Leicester City, which really convinced him that his team is back.
“In the last two games, I’ve seen something I like,” he added. “I remember seeing some of the things I’ve seen in the past. That’s what we have to build from there.”