{"id":204570,"date":"2024-07-30T14:43:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T14:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/30\/pep-guardiola-hands-boost-to-premier-league-title-hopefuls-with-worrying-man-city-prediction\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T14:43:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T14:43:53","slug":"pep-guardiola-hands-boost-to-premier-league-title-hopefuls-with-worrying-man-city-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/30\/pep-guardiola-hands-boost-to-premier-league-title-hopefuls-with-worrying-man-city-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola hands boost to Premier League title hopefuls with worrying Man City prediction \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Pep Guardiola has revealed he expects Manchester City to suffer at the start of their Premier League title defence due to the absence of many of their star names during pre-season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Cityzens have taken a youthful squad over to the United States for their\u00a0pre-season tour, with the likes of Rodri, Phil Foden and Kyle Walker among those who have not yet returned from their excursions at Euro 2024.<\/p>\n<p>City\u00a0have often started slowly by their own standards before racing ahead of rivals like Arsenal and Liverpool to claim title glory and Guardiola has admitted he thinks it could be a similar story in 2024\/25.<\/p>\n<p>However, the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss also hit out at organisers at FIFA and UEFA for overloading players with too many matches in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe will arrive late but not [just] against Manchester United, against Chelsea and Ipswich too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be late. It\u2019s about trying not to drop many points, try to compete well. We don\u2019t have players because they have to rest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the big bosses and all the institutions like FIFA, UEFA and the\u00a0Premier League\u00a0don\u2019t think about the players then the managers have to think about them, otherwise they will die. It\u2019s too much. That\u2019s why three weeks or one month is necessary, but the competition is there and you have to adapt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clubs around Europe have filed a lawsuit\u00a0against the top football organisers, describing the current international match calendar as \u201csaturated\u201d and \u201cunsustainable\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/01j408fvsk81kns4ea29.jpg\" alt=\"Josep Guardiola\" title=\"Josep Guardiola\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Guardiola and City are currently touring the US \/ Drew Hallowell\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Pointing to player fatigue, Guardiola added: \u201cThere\u2019s no solution, there will not be a solution because there is no intention to find a solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe clubs have to travel to show our brand around the world, to let other continents and places see our players, and we have to adapt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to have had proper preparation but it\u2019s impossible because national teams deserve to play and every institution like FIFA and UEFA and local competitions want to defend their product and make games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a good squad when everybody comes back. We have three, four, five interesting (young) players just in case we need them. We will do what we have done in the previous seasons when we have had success having the same calendar as this year<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola has revealed he expects Manchester City to suffer at the start of their Premier League title defence due to the absence of many of their star names during pre-season. The Cityzens have taken a youthful squad over to the United States for their\u00a0pre-season tour, with the likes of Rodri, Phil Foden and Kyle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pep Guardiola hands boost to Premier League title hopefuls with worrying Man City prediction \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/07\/30\/pep-guardiola-hands-boost-to-premier-league-title-hopefuls-with-worrying-man-city-prediction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pep Guardiola hands boost to Premier League title hopefuls with worrying Man City prediction \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pep Guardiola has revealed he expects Manchester City to suffer at the start of their Premier League title defence due to the absence of many of their star names during pre-season. 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