Manchester City head coach Pep Guardiola has finally revealed his regret as City coach after many struggling games. The former Barcelona coach said he may have made a mistake by telling the club to scrap plans to buy players last summer.
Man City are expected to dip into the transfer market this month in order to add to their squad depth. This realization set in after player maker Rodri’s injury and now Kyle Walker is asking to leave. Kevin de Bruyne is also looking to leave the club and they will miss all these players.
The club have not made a significant signing in January since the arrival of Aymeric Laporte for £57m from Athletic Bilbao in 2018. They are currently eyeing Lens defender Abdukodir Khusanov and they want to sign him as Walker’s replacement.
Pep Guardiola is also hoping to bring in Eintracht Frankfurt forward Omar Marmoush, while Palmeiras’ teenage defender Vitor Reis is also on his radar. Pep said: “In the summer the club thought about it and I said ‘no, I don’t want to make any signings.” “I relied a lot on these guys and thought I can do it again.””But after the injuries – wow – maybe we should have done it.”
They will be without defenders John Stones and Ruben Dias when they face Brentford later today and speaking about that he said: “We knew at the beginning of the season we will have a lot of players over 30.” “We knew sooner or later, we should do it. Step by step we had to change.”
“But five or six months ago, they won the Premier League, four in a row, reached the FA Cup final and quarter-final of the Champions League. The amount of injuries we had, I didn’t expect it.”
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