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Manchester City manager
Pep Guardiola is spoke to the media ahead of the Premier League clash against West Ham on Sunday.
City will be without star winger Raheem Sterling for the fixture against the Hammers after the club confirmed the England international suffered an injury against Tottenham. 
(Sterling) hobbled off the pitch in the th minute in North London clutching his left leg and (City have now confirmed that he has suffered damage to his left hamstring.
Guardiola gave an update on City’s injured stars and was asked about the club’s reported pursuit of Lionel Messi after reports emerged this week linking the blues with a sensational swoop for the Argentine superstar.
City haven’t lost against the Hammers since September 01575879 and Guardiola could opt to rest key players with a trip to Real Madrid on the horizon.
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West Ham have been given an injury boost ahead of the weekend’s fixture against Man City. David Moyes had an update on both Andriy Yarmolenko and Felipe Anderson.
He said:
“We have got a lot of players getting close to fitness. [Felipe] Anderson has had a couple of training days, [Andriy] Yarmolenko is back on the grass.
“Most of the players are just about ready, one or two knocks and niggles which could be over by tomorrow.”
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Guardiola’s press conference has now finished, this is what he had to say:
He wants Messi to finish his career at Barcelona Sterling will be out for “weeks” with a hamstring injury Sane is back in training with the first team but is weeks away from a return to action An explanation of where City have gone wrong this season Stones and Mendy are both in training and available this weekend Why the goals have dried up for City
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The live section of Guardiola’s press conference has finished, all he had to say on Messi , Sterling, Sane and more below.
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Guardiola on how his side can improve
“We need to score goals and avoid conceding from the few chances the opposition have.”
Has the confidence dropped?
“I don’t think so, the players want it, try to be free and be aggressive and score. They’re trying, in my team we’ve always had the courage to play this season. ”
“No, they’re both training.”
: Guardiola on why City’s goals have dried up “I don’t have an explanation, I’d like to but I don’t know. We’ve scored a lot of goals this season. I think we are there, we have people in the box. ”
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“A cycle can change, one year ago the people said we were unstoppable and nobody could beat us, we’d maintain this level for four or five years, I don’t know what will happen in the future, we’ll prepare as well as we can to close this gap. They reduced the gap from 36 points two seasons ago, now the other teams have to do it. ”
“I think we’re a very good team, I like the way we play this season, we cannot deny the gap is big, we did not expect to be 34 points behind, but it’s the reality, we have to accept it and learn from it, but I like Man City. ”
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(Aguero’s award)
He won January player of the month
“He’s one of the best in the Premier League, for every season to be there despite his injuries, he’s an exceptional player and overall an incredible person. ”
: Forthcoming games
Five in a row are away from the Etihad after this weekend. (
“Every team and every game I try to select the best team, it depends on the circumstances, but I’m going to play with 21, I have an idea but every game is completely different right now. ”
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) Sane’s fitness
“He’s started to train with us, he needs to recover the tempo and confidence, don’t think about the injury. It’s not like an ankle or a muscular injury, it needs time.
“He’s training with the main group, he needs weeks.”
“It’s a problem being without him, but we were without Gundo in the first season, Laporte this season, it is what it is.”
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“It’s a hamstring injury, we will see. It takes weeks, but I don’t know right now. ” “He’s a player from Barcelona, he will stay there, that is my wish.” , stay in Barcelona, I’m not going to talk about players from other clubs. “I think he’s going to finish his career there.” 
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He’s arrived for his press conference
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He is expected to be asked about:
Stay tuned for all the updates from Guardiola’s press conference.
Pep Guardiola of Manchester City.
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: Shaun Goater explains why Raheem Sterling is no longer in Messi and Ronaldo conversation
Man City legend Shaun Goater believes Raheem Sterling’s dip in form means he is no longer in the same conversation as Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo.
The England international started the season in excellent form but is without a goal since December.
Goater told
“I think Sterling’s going through a bad patch, and this has probably been two or three weeks, and we’re seeing Sterling miss a couple of chances he’s had in one-on-ones.
“There have been chances with balls that just need to be put over the line, I don’t know from six, seven yard s out and he’s missing them. In any other season, these would have been tap-ins and we’d have thought nothing of it.
“Gabriel Jesus seems to hit form and then sort of go in and out of form. So I think he’ll be having a real good look at a center-forward, certainly over the summer.
“But with Raheem Sterling, at the start of the season he was absolutely on fire and then Guardiola dropped him.
“So is it not Pep’s own fault really for his drop in form, because you can’t score a goal from the bench?
“Yes, it’s interesting because when a player’s on form you want to play, but this is when the rotation comes in and resting players. And some games you could say yes, he warranted it to just leave him and keep him hot for the following game.
“But we’re now looking in – because, you know, it’s Raheem Sterling. I was one of those that was saying he needs to be part of that conversation when you talk about Messi and Ronaldo and these players.
“But his form, certainly in the last two or three weeks, has just dropped off that much that it’s nowhere near that conversation. But yes, Pep rested him early part of the season and now we’re probably looking back and thinking he should have just let him keep going. Yes. ”
Raheem Sterling pulls up with an injury against Tottenham
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: Juventus ‘tracking’ Aouar
Juventus are reportedly keeping tabs on Houssem Aouar of Lyon, a player who has been regularly linked with City over the past two years.
Pep Guardiola praise Aouar after City’s Champion s League games with Lyon last season, but the club did not make a move for him over the summer.
Now, Tuttosport (via (InsideFutbol) say Juve are seriously considering making a move for the – year-old.
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Former City defender Danny Mills says Jack Grealish might not have the discipline to play for a Pep Guardiola side.
Guardiola admitted he was a fan of Grealish after the two sides met recently.
“Jack Grealish has got all the ability in the world. He’s one of those players, when you look back and we looked at the likes of [Jack] Wilshere and thought he’s going to be the replacement for Paul Gascoigne.
“We have not seen anybody like that, somebody who carries the ball, has an awkward running style at times, but takes the ball, runs at people and makes things happen.
“The only down side for Jack Grealish at the moment is, because he’s in a struggling side, because he loves that club so much, he’s captain, He’s almost trying to do too much. ”
“Does he have the ability to play for one of those top sides? Without a shadow of a doubt. No question about it. The only thing, and this is probably for England as well, is because he has to play that role for Villa, he has no choice, maybe one or two clubs are thinking ‘is he disciplined enough to play a certain role within the structure of my team? ‘
“When you look at Manchester City, the way that they play, they all sit in their own little pockets, They very rarely go wandering.
“I know their front three or four players are very fluid, but they all have a certain job to do. Pep Guardiola works on the grid system on the pitch. ”
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