{"id":204226,"date":"2025-12-21T23:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/204226\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:19:07","slug":"manchester-city-pep-guardiola-says-players-will-be-weighed-before-nottingham-forest-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/204226\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City: Pep Guardiola says players will be weighed before Nottingham Forest game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guardiola is known as a strict coach when it comes to player fitness levels and in 2016 exiled some of his squad from first-team training until they met certain weight targets.<\/p>\n

Former City full-back Gael Clichy said Guardiola had told his players to avoid pizza, some juice and certain “heavy food”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Guardiola previously apologised to Kalvin Phillips after saying the City midfielder was “overweight” on his return from the 2022 Qatar World Cup.<\/p>\n

City are two points behind Premier League leaders Arsenal<\/a>, who beat Everton<\/a> 1-0 on Saturday, and face Forest before an away fixture at Sunderland<\/a> on New Year’s Day.<\/p>\n

Guardiola said he had no problem with his squad’s fitness or running, but they simply “have to play better”.<\/p>\n

“The players asked me to have tomorrow’s [Sunday’s] training session off and I said no, because they didn’t play well enough,” Guardiola said.<\/p>\n

“So Sunday recovery, train the guys that didn’t play, and after three days off they have two days to prepare for Nottingham Forest<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Guardiola added that it was important for his players to spend time with their families over the Christmas period.<\/p>\n

“I’ve learned from England, since I arrived, as much days [where you can] have a day off, you give them,” he added.<\/p>\n

“The schedule is so tight and the players have to forget. The moment of the game they will be fresh in the legs.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guardiola is known as a strict coach when it comes to player fitness levels and in 2016 exiled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-204226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}