{"id":403,"date":"2025-05-21T18:16:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=403"},"modified":"2025-05-21T18:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:16:48","slug":"guardiola-demands-shorter-squad-at-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/guardiola-demands-shorter-squad-at-manchester-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola demands shorter squad at Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-10.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-10-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-10-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Guardiola sent out a warning to the Manchester City board after the win over Bournemouth. The man from Santpedor assured that, in order to continue at the club, he wants a smaller squad than the one he currently has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has issued a warning to the club&#8217;s owners: &#8220;I want a smaller squad or I will leave.&#8221; The Spanish manager was speaking to the media after his side&#8217;s win over Bournemouth that left them one point away from qualifying for the Champions League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI told the club I don&#8217;t want a big squad. I don\u2019t want to put five, six players in the stands, I don&#8217;t want that. I will quit,&#8221; Guardiola said. \u201cIf they don&#8217;t make a short squad, I will not stay. It&#8217;s impossible for my soul to put players in the stands and cannot play\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last winter transfer window City signed Nico, Khusanov and Vitor Reis spending a total of more than \u20ac100m because of the team&#8217;s injury plague, especially Rodrigo Hernandez, who has been out for eight months with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;For three or four months we were without several players, we had no defenders, and it was very difficult. Then people come back from injuries, but next season it can&#8217;t be like that. As a coach, I can&#8217;t train 24 players and every week four, five or six stay in Manchester because they can&#8217;t play. This cannot happen and I have told the club that,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the upcoming transfer window, City are expected to make several additions to revitalise a squad that, after winning everything, including four consecutive Premier League titles, is only in contention to win the Club World Cup this season, having lost the English Premier League, Champions League, EFL Cup and FA Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardiola sent out a warning to the Manchester City board after the win over Bournemouth. The man from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}