Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola said on Friday (28) that no player or members of the training team deserve to obtain performance rewards from the World Cup for this year.
The current English Premier League champion, City lives a difficult season under Guardiola. The team is 22 points behind Liverpool Liverpool in the English Championship and has been eliminated early in the Champions League, and is still in the knockout stage.
With the judiciary in periodic In the fourth stage, the only realistic opportunity to obtain a local title for the city this season is the England Cup, where the team is in the quarter -finals and will face Bournemouth on Sunday (30) away from home.
The club’s World Cup, which will be held in the United States between June 14 and July 13, will distribute a total prize of one billion dollars, with the champion and can collect up to $ 125 million. However, Guardiola excluded any interest in the award.
“We do not deserve a reward for this season. “If we win, the money goes to the club,” the coach said in a press conference. Neither the coach nor the committee nor the players deserve. Not until the hour!“
Currently in the fifth place of the English Premier League, Manchester City The struggle for a place in the next edition of the Champions League. Guardiola He admitted that the campaign was an education, especially for the coach who used to play titles on several fronts at this stage of the season.
The Spanish said: “You learn in good and bad times. If we do not learn from it, this will happen again.” “I always said that qualifying for the Champions League is already a great achievement. In the past, they did not believe it, but now they believe.”
Now the coach’s immediate focus is on the England Cup. Guardiola wants to take the city to the seventh semi -finals in a row in the tournament, but it knows that Bournemouth, who has already won citizens in the English Championship This seasonIt can be a complex discount.
In addition to the field performance, the club is still awaiting a decision on the alleged violations of the financial rules Premier League. If confirmed, violations may lead to fines, loss of points, or even cancel the titles.
Despite the uncertainty, Guardiola secured that the team is still focusing.
“We have dealt with this more than a year ago. Nothing will change in another week, two, three, or four,” he said.
(Rohath Nair report in Bangaluru; Toby Davis edition)
