I Will Buy Goals For Manchester City – Pep

Pep Guardiola admits he will have to “buy goals” before next season in a bid to cure Manchester City’s lack of killer instinct.

Guardiola’s side enter the final stages of the Premier League season with a top four finish still in doubt due, according to the manager, to their failure in the opposition penalty area.

While City are top of the ‘chances created’ statistic in the division, they rank only seventh in goals scored and Guardiola claims there is only one solution to that problem.

“We can accept the opponent scoring one goal, but we didn’t score enough goals,” Guardiola said on Friday.

“We created enough chances. In the statistics, we are the team in the Premier League with the most clear-cut chances, but are seventh in the teams scoring the most goals.

“It’s complicated. When one guy is fast, he’s fast, when one guy’s strong, he’s strong, when one guy’s good at heading, he’s good at heading, when one guy is good at scoring goals, he’s good at scoring goals.

“So when you buy a guy, who’s fast, you buy a player who’s fast, so goals, you have to buy. That’s what it is.”

Sergio Aguero has 31 goals this season and Guardiola believes City’s campaign would have been different if young Brazilian Gabriel Jesus, who has scored four goals in four league starts, hadn’t missed over two months with a broken toe.

But Aguero’s conversion rate has still been questioned and the City manager is an unashamed admirer of Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez, who has 24 goals this season and previously played for Guardiola at Barcelona.

Sanchez may cost City around £50 million ($64 million, 58 million euros) if they manager to lure him away from their Premier League rivals.