{"id":363343,"date":"2025-12-22T08:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363343\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:54:08","slug":"pep-guardiola-weighs-man-city-players-ahead-of-christmas-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363343\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola weighs Man City players ahead of Christmas break"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pep Guardiola has warned his Manchester City<\/a> players that if they overindulge over their Christmas break they risk being dropped from the squad for the next game against Nottingham Forest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Guardiola revealed after the 3-0 win over West Ham<\/a> on Saturday that each of his players were weighed on Friday.<\/p>\n

They are set to be re-weighed when they return to training on Christmas Day and Guardiola said he will be keeping a keen eye on the results before picking a squad to face Nottingham Forest on Dec. 27.<\/p>\n

“Every player make a weight [on Friday],” Guardiola said. “They come back on the 25th and I will be there controlling how many kilos come up. The moment they arrive after three days [off] I want to see how they come back.<\/p>\n

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“They can eat, but I want to control them.<\/p>\n

“I have to make a selection against Nottingham Forest. Imagine one player and now he’s perfect but he will arrive with three kilos more. He will [stay] in Manchester. He will not travel to Nottingham Forest.”<\/p>\n

City are second in the Premier League<\/a> table, two points behind leaders Arsenal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite the comfortable win over West Ham and being well-positioned in the league, Guardiola said parts of the performance were “not good.”<\/p>\n

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In response, the City boss cancelled a planned day off on Sunday and instead reduced the players’ break to three days.<\/p>\n

“The players asked me to take a day off [on Sunday], I said, no, because you didn’t play good enough,” said Guardiola, who is planning to spend his Christmas break in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

“[On Sunday] recovery, train the guys that didn’t play, and after three days off, you have two days to prepare for Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n

“The schedule is so tight and the players have to forget. The players have to go with the families and forget football.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola has warned his Manchester City players that if they overindulge over their Christmas break they risk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-363343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}