{"id":200555,"date":"2026-05-23T09:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200555\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:41:10","slug":"pep-guardiola-admits-biggest-regret-on-eve-of-man-city-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200555\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola admits biggest regret on eve of Man City exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 55-year-old Spaniard, who takes charge of his final City match on Sunday against Aston Villa, sent Hart out on loan to Torino within weeks of his appointment before signing Claudio Bravo in 2016 and Ederson the following season.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola told Sky Sports: \u201cI want to confess, I have regrets. When you take a lot of decisions, a lot, lot of decisions, you make mistakes.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pep Guardiola reveals his one regret during his time as Manchester City boss \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GwJqURG7oO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/GwJqURG7oO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/2057909000654446621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there is one regret that I have deep inside for many years, that I didn\u2019t give a chance to Joe Hart to be with me to prove himself how good a keeper he was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI should have done, not because\u2026 all respect for Claudio, all respect for Ede who came in, they were important, but in that moment, I could have said, \u2018Okay Joe, let\u2019s try to do it together. If it doesn\u2019t work, okay, we\u2019ll change it\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it happened. Life is sometimes\u2026 I have to take decisions and sometimes I\u2019m not fair enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cMaybe with time then and learning\u2026 But I regret it from that time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2.28424581.jpg\" alt=\"Manchester City\u2019s Joe Hart and Willy Caballero (right) warm up before a Premier League match at Stoke\" data-title=\"Stoke City v Manchester City \u2013 Premier League \u2013 The Bet365 Stadium\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Archive\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Nick Potts\" data-usage-terms=\"EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club\/league logos or \u201clive\u201d services. Online in-match use limited to 75 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club\/league\/player publications.\"  \/>Joe Hart was sent out on loan after Claudio Bravo arrived at Manchester City (Nick Potts\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn that moment, I said, \u2018I believe in that\u2019. Always I am stubborn in my decisions, when I believe in that. When I have doubts, I talk with people, but when I\u2019m completely sure, 100 per cent, I say, \u2018Guys, we have to do it in that way\u2019, and I have been at a club that has supported me absolutely in everything with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola admitted dealing with human emotions is one of the hardest parts of management, particularly with players who are not in the team, and insisted he had always tried to do that with \u201chumanity and respect\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIf in that I failed, I do apologise, but it never, never was my intention or the intention of the club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 55-year-old Spaniard, who takes charge of his final City match on Sunday against Aston Villa, sent Hart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-200555","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\/200555","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=200555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}