Joe Hart doesn’t think he has been given a “fair chance” by Pep Guardiola as his Manchester City career looks to be over since the Spaniard’s arrival last summer.
“That’s life and that’s football. We all want a fair chance at everything but that’s not how it works,” Hart said.
“Me waiting for that to happen and waiting for a fair shot at things, that’s not the industry.
“I’m up for a fight, a fair fight, it’s good for me and if I lose I’ll shake hands with my opposition. But I realised this wasn’t going to be my opportunity for a good fight so I thought I’d look elsewhere.
“I’m not going to second guess why he wanted to get rid of me. The only thing that came of it is that I need to leave. Why he did it or what the intentions were I don’t really care because it makes no difference to me, it makes no difference to my life.
“It would be a lie to say I didn’t want to spend my whole time at Man City, I would happily played for them for the rest of my career and not played abroad, but it was too good an opportunity to turn down.
“With a couple of days remaining in the transfer window it was third or fourth choice at City or to go and play in Serie A with Torino in a beautiful city so I took it.”
Hart said he would have liked a permanent switch away from City in the summer but he was priced out of a permanent move but needed to keep playing with the World Cup at the end of the season.
“I would have loved to have signed somewhere permanent — I want to be set, I want to have goals and be driven,” he added.
“But there was too much money put on my head and people weren’t willing to pay it so another loan came about.
“I was very grateful when West Ham gave me the opportunity, so it’s another case of getting my head down and working hard and fighting for the cause.”
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