Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola has come out to say that the club owners have always wanted him to win the UCL. He recently revealed that this was the message he got immediately he arrived at the club from Bayern Munich in 2016.
According to him, however, he is not going to put himself under any pressure because he is sure it’ll happen eventually if Manchester City deserves to win the competition.
Pep added that he is not currently thinking about reaching the UCL semi-finals, and he’ll continue taking things one step at a time.
His words, “Since the first year I arrived they told me that you have to win the Champions League,”
“It is always on our shoulders, but I’m not concerned about that. If you deserve it in football, you go through. If you don’t, you don’t.”
“I’m not thinking to get to the semi-finals. I’m thinking to do a good first game and a good second game.”
“When you are thinking about what you are going to win, you forget what you have to do – analyse the opponent, our shape, the way we want to play, our principles, and trying to do a good game. This is all I am concerned with.”
“But, saying that, I’m more than incredibly impressed and delighted for our players in this tough year for everyone in society, being 14 points clear in the Premier League and in the final of the Carabao Cup and quarter-final of the Champions League and going to play to get to the semi-finals of the FA Cup.”
“It is more than winning one quarter-final or one last-16 game. It means that in nine or 10 months every three days you are there and this is the best title you can get. Of course for the prestige for all of us, because we are here to win like all other clubs, we have to try it in the end to lift some titles.”
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