Guardiola signed a new contract with City until 2027 at the end of last year, but the former FC Barcelona coach has now threatened to leave the club if he had to work with a plethoric workforce next season. He added that he would be ” impossible For him to leave players outside the game days, as was James McATEE, Savinho and Rico Lewis in the 3-1 victory of City in the Premier League against Bournemouth on Tuesday.
Pep Guardiola lets the threat hover
He said after the match: “I told the club that I didn't want that. I don't want to leave five or six players in the stands. I don't want that. I will resign. I will reduce the workforce, I will stay. It is impossible for me to leave my players in the stands, from preventing them from playing.
I don't want to have 24, 25, 26 players while everyone is in good shape. If they are injured, too bad. We have players for the training center and we do it. We cannot maintain the emotion of the club, the soul of the team, create a new link, a link that we have lost a little this season.
During an evening that should have been more devoted to the last match of Kevin de Bruyne with City at Etihad, Guardiola hit the chronicle with a shocking ultimatum. City, who reacted well after his defeat in the FA Cup final against Crystal Palace, is preparing for a reconstruction this summer, but it seems that they will have to find the happy medium, under penalty of seeing the Spaniard leaving them.
City, who found Rodri after a long knee injury against Bournemouth, ended his season in Fulham on Sunday. The Guardiola team occupies third place in the Premier League ranking and is off to play the Champions League again next season.
