Pep Guardiola is not ready to be drawn into a war of words with Jose Mourinho after Manchester City maintained their impressive progress towards the Premier League title.
Mourinho blasted Guardiola on Tuesday after pointing to their rivals’ huge spending power by claiming “City buy full-backs for the price of strikers” and insisting that the £300 million ($402 million) he has spent since taking charge at Old Trafford 18 months ago as “not enough”.
When asked about the comments made by the Portuguese, Guardiola said: “I’m so delighted to be here to speak about what happened on the pitch.
“About what happened with my colleague speaking off the pitch in the press conference, I’m not the right guy. You want to talk about what happened today on the pitch, I will answer.”
“I saw the schedule in my office the other day and I wanted to escape, because it’s terrible. The games we are going to play, it’s tough.
“We’ve played all these games in December then in January you have the Carabao Cup and FA Cup and then the return of the Champions League in February.
“It will be tough but it will also be tough for our opponents.”
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