{"id":75547,"date":"2025-08-17T03:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T03:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/75547\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T03:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T03:57:08","slug":"pep-guardiola-admits-fears-over-man-city-squad-as-he-sounds-warning-to-club-chiefs-despite-4-0-win-over-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/75547\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola admits fears over Man City squad as he sounds warning to club chiefs despite 4-0 win over Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-413\/jack-gaughan.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JACK GAUGHAN, NORTH WEST SPORTS REPORTER<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  17:42 EDT, 16 August 2025   |  Updated:  17:45 EDT, 16 August 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/pep_guardiola\/index.html\" id=\"mol-dead66c0-7ae9-11f0-9aef-8789e52722fd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pep Guardiola<\/a> admitted the size of <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/manchester-city\/index.html\" id=\"mol-dea417f0-7ae9-11f0-9aef-8789e52722fd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Manchester City<\/a>\u2019s squad is unhealthy for morale and claimed a number of players will leave before September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">City currently have 30 senior professionals on their books and at least six are set to depart over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Guardiola, who saw <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/erling-haaland\/index.html\" id=\"mol-dea8f9f0-7ae9-11f0-9aef-8789e52722fd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Erling Haaland<\/a> score a brace as they beat <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/wolverhampton-wanderers\/index.html\" id=\"mol-dea63ad0-7ae9-11f0-9aef-8789e52722fd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wolves<\/a> 4-0, fears that the backroom staff will struggle to keep players together in unison without a raft of departures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018We have too many people,\u2019 Guardiola said. \u2018It\u2019s not about Eddy, today we didn\u2019t have <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/rodri\/index.html\" id=\"mol-deae0300-7ae9-11f0-9aef-8789e52722fd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rodri<\/a>, Phil (Foden), (Mateo) Kovacic, Savinho and Josko (Gvardiol).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018On the bench we had Nathan (Ake) and (Ilkay) Gundogan. I like a deep squad to compete in all competitions but I don\u2019t want to leave players at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018It\u2019s not healthy. You cannot create a good vibe or atmosphere to compete. The club has known it since last season but the situation is what it is.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-11594b82a3e821e6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101288649-0-image-a-30_1755378504713.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Pep Guardiola admitted the size of Manchester City\u00bfs squad is unhealthy for morale\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Pep Guardiola admitted the size of Manchester City\u2019s squad is unhealthy for morale<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-7dd364838c8ee72d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101288647-0-image-a-29_1755378502354.jpg\" height=\"452\" width=\"634\" alt=\"City currently have 30 senior professionals on their books and at least six are set to depart\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">City currently have 30 senior professionals on their books and at least six are set to depart<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Ederson \u2013 left out of the team at Molineux \u2013 is wanted by Galatasaray, while Tottenham are targeting Brazil winger Savinho, although City are looking at replacing both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Nottingham Forest are interested in signing Rico Lewis and have already secured a \u00a330million move for James McAtee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u00a0Kalvin Phillips and Claudio Echeverri will move before the window closes but Guardiola\u2019s comments point to higher profile stars seeking new homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018In the next two weeks, people will talk with players and agents to find a solution,\u2019 Guardiola added.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Pep Guardiola admits fears over Man City squad as he sounds warning to club chiefs despite 4-0 win over Wolves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By JACK GAUGHAN, NORTH WEST SPORTS REPORTER Published: 17:42 EDT, 16 August 2025 | Updated: 17:45 EDT, 16&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,2093,527,563,21083,574,561,457,82],"class_list":["post-75547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dailymail","tag-football","tag-manchester-city","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}