We Don’t Have a Player Like Messi, Cristiano or Neymar – Man City Boss

Speaking to journalists after the 3-0 demolition of Tottenham recently, Guardiola says he  is all about putting the team first.

“We don’t have players who can win the game by himself – we don’t have a Messi, a Cristiano, Mbappe or Neymar,” Guardiola said. “We have to do it as a team.”

“I’ll be honest, I would love to have a player who scores every single game four goals and runs like these players run, I would love it,” Guardiola smiled. “I wouldn’t change any player that we have right now today, in this season. All of them. That’s why many times I praised our captain Fernandinho, like how he helps on and off the pitch to stick together in the bad moments.

“The big teams, the big players show it in the bad moments, in the good moments everyone is easy to play, and we had the bad moments this season. We had a moment when we were in 12th position in the table, we were five points away from Tottenham [and eight after the loss] who were top of the league when we lost there and now we are 17 points ahead of them. So that means consistency, how we turned over this situation, and that means a lot. Maybe that won’t be enough to win the title, but what we enjoyed the last two months belongs to us.”