{"id":7034,"date":"2025-12-26T15:40:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7034"},"modified":"2025-12-26T15:40:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:40:33","slug":"pep-guardiola-manchester-city-manager-says-players-incredibly-disciplined-to-meet-club-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7034","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola: Manchester City manager says players &#8216;incredibly disciplined&#8217; to meet club standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City could move top of the Premier League if they win at Forest, with leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Arsenal<\/a> hosting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/brighton-and-hove-albion\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Brighton<\/a> later on Saturday (15:00)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I prefer to be 10 points ahead of everyone but it is what it is. It is going really well but we are there,&#8221; Guardiola said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are still in the end of December, in the Champions League we are up there, in the Premier League we are up there, we are in the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup, the start of the FA Cup is soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The City manager also said &#8220;everything can happen&#8221; during the January transfer window, with the club <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cx2djq1jdrdo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">in advanced talks<\/a> to sign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/afc-bournemouth\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Bournemouth<\/a> forward Antoine Semenyo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I started last season I never could expect to go in the transfer window with four or five players because we have 25 players injured and out of the situation,&#8221; said Guardiola.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is open and everything can happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City are without defender John Stones and winger Jeremy Doku because of injury, while Guardiola said midfielder Rodri was &#8220;much, much better&#8221; as he recovers from a hamstring problem &#8211; and could be assessed before Saturday&#8217;s fixture. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Pep #Guardiola #Manchester #City #manager #players #incredibly #disciplined #meet #club #standards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City could move top of the Pre&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}