{"id":414538,"date":"2026-02-08T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414538\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:09:09","slug":"pep-guardiola-didnt-trust-liverpool-star-who-hasnt-ruled-out-man-city-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414538\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola ‘didn’t trust’ Liverpool star who hasn’t ruled out Man City return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pep Guardiola previously had Jeremie Frimpong at his disposal but the Liverpool star never felt the trust of his old manager, which convinced him to leave Manchester City in 2019\"Manchester<\/p>\n

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Liverpool star Jeremie Frimpong previously revealed how he never felt as though he was going to win the trust of Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola.<\/p>\n

Frimpong<\/a> spent almost a decade in City’s academy before leaving to join Celtic in 2019, and he quickly went on to forge a reputation as one of the most exciting wing-backs in Europe.<\/p>\n

Eighteen months at Celtic were followed by four and a half years at Bayer Leverkusen before he returned to the Premier League with Liverpool<\/a> last summer.<\/p>\n

Speaking in 2019, shortly after leaving City, Frimpong said that he would have “loved” to have played for Guardiola’s side and opened the door to a possible return to the Etihad Stadium at some point down the line.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI had been at City all my football life and I had the ability to play there,\u201d he told The Scotsman<\/a> five years ago, shortly after his move to Glasgow.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I knew in my head that it was about the coach, Pep Guardiola, trusting me to play. And I knew I wasn\u2019t going to get that. So I needed to change something.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he bought another right-back this summer, Joao Cancelo, that topped it off because he is a young guy as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou train with the first team every week and then you go back down with the under-23s. There wasn\u2019t really a pathway for me at Man City.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it wasn\u2019t really that hard a decision. Obviously I would have loved to play for City, but I knew one day I would leave. This is just the beginning for me. Maybe I could go back there one day but right now I am staying here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Jeremie<\/p>\n

Jeremie Frimpong joined Liverpool last year(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Considering it’s seven years since those comments, and Frimpong is now a Liverpool player, it’s fair to conclude that it’s highly unlikely that Frimpong will return to City in the future!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Arne Slot provided an injury update on the Dutchman ahead of the clash between Liverpool and City at Anfield.<\/p>\n

Frimpong is currently sidelined with another muscle injury, having suffered two other muscle injuries during the first half of the season as well.<\/p>\n

“Jeremie will definitely not train this week so won’t play this weekend,” Slot said during a press conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Frimpong’s fitness issues have contributed to him starting just 13 of the 36 games that Liverpool has played in all competitions so far this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola previously had Jeremie Frimpong at his disposal but the Liverpool star never felt the trust of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,2235,134,19404,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-414538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-jeremie-frimpong","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}