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“You buy a player for a lot of money and he is not able to play for a rule I don’t understand. Hopefully they can change it,” he added.<\/p>\n
City’s other January signing, winger Antoine Semenyo, arrived at the club from Bournemouth<\/a> four days prior to their trip to the north east for the first leg against Newcastle<\/a>, in which he scored.<\/p>\n “Antoine arrived before the first [game] so could play. And now it’s the final. Why should he [Guehi] not play? Why not? We pay his salary, he is our player,” Guardiola added.<\/p>\n “I said to the club, they have to ask, definitely. I don’t understand the reason why he cannot play in the final in March, when I have been here for a long time. <\/p>\n “The rules to buy a player depends on Fifa, Uefa, the Premier League who say, OK the transfer window is open, when you buy a player you have to play, no? It’s logic. Of course we are going to try to ask [for] him to play. Pure logic.<\/p>\n Asked what he thought the answer will be from the EFL, City’s Spanish boss, added: “No. But we will try.”<\/p>\n City have already benefited from one rule change this season that allowed players to play for two teams in the same competition, instead of being cup tied.<\/p>\n That allowed Semenyo and Max Alleyne to feature in the semi-final matches, despite appearing for Bournemouth<\/a> and Watford respectively in previous rounds. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n