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Foden has struggled for club and country (Bradley Collyer\/PA)<\/p>\nCity midfielder Rodri, whose contract expires at the end of next season, said last week \u201cyou can\u2019t turn down the best clubs in the world\u201d when asked about the prospect of joining the Spanish giants.<\/p>\n
It has since been reported that City have offered the 2024 Ballon d\u2019Or winner a new deal and Guardiola is hopeful he will accept, but concedes it is not certain.<\/p>\n
Asked if he expects the 29-year-old to stay, the City manager said: \u201cI think so. Always I had the positive (feeling) with that but I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know what the club wants. They informed me what they want from Rodri \u2013 it is to stay.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlways my wish is that Rodri could stay as long as possible in this club. He\u2019s an incredible player.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThere is no player that will turn down the chance to play for Madrid, I understand completely. He was born in Spain.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf one player is not happy they have to leave. I think he is happy but if he is not happy just knock on the door of the sporting director, accept an offer according to his incredible quality and after that he belongs only to himself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Foden has struggled for club and country (Bradley Collyer\/PA)<\/p>\n
Guardiola has challenged Phil Foden to get back to his best after two underwhelming performances in England\u2019s latest friendlies led national team manager Thomas Tuchel to suggest his World Cup place was in jeopardy.<\/p>\n
That comes after a loss of form at club level with Guardiola only starting the midfielder in eight of City\u2019s last 20 games.<\/p>\n
Guardiola said: \u201cSometimes you do have to react, you have to be stronger. It is up to him, as quickly as possible he has to realise, \u2018I have to do better\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we come back to the talent and the talent is there. Sometimes you can drop a little bit and he\u2019s aware of that so OK, take it like a challenge. I know Phil perfectly and what he\u2019s capable of.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure he would love to go with England. These opportunities cannot be missed. If you have an opportunity, play as good as possible to be selected because it\u2019s only once every four years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guardiola has returned from the international break looking tanned and refreshed.<\/p>\n
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Guardiola has guided City to seven successive FA Cup semi-finals and won the competition twice (Nick Potts\/PA)<\/p>\n
City host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Saturday bidding to reach the semi-finals for a record-extending eighth season in succession.<\/p>\n
City have also played in the last three finals and Guardiola is well aware of the impact he has made in the competition, even though he has only collected the trophy twice.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable. I don\u2019t know if one team has been to seven semi-finals in a row in this competition, the FA Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know (I won) four Carabao Cups in a row, four Premier Leagues in a row. I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m so proud.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t need to finish and go to the Maldives, underneath the coconuts, to realise how incredible it is. I\u2019m sorry, it\u2019s incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City midfielder Rodri, whose contract expires at the end of next season, said last week \u201cyou can\u2019t turn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-156709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}