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Post by Webster on Feb 10, 2023 17:51:18 GMT
(The Guardian) Guardiola's press conference gets under wayRight, here he is. Straight to the point, he’s asked whether, having pledged to leave City if the hierarchy lied to him, he still has confidence in the club. He starts by conveying his and the club’s sympathies to the victims of the earthquakes which have hit Turkey and Syria. “My first thought is that we have already been condemned,” he says, in reference to the Premier League charges. “What’s happening right now, what happened on Monday is the same as what happened with Uefa … we’ve had already accusations and now we have just ‘charged’.”
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Post by Webster on Feb 10, 2023 17:52:18 GMT
(The Guardian) Guardiola launches into a fierce defence of the club, referencing City’s Champions League ban being overturned in 2020 and the nine clubs that wrote to the court of arbitration for sport calling for the ban to be upheld. “You have to understand that 19 teams of the Premier League are accusing us without the opportunity to defend [ourselves]. The word of my club, my owner, my chairman, my CEO, my people, who have explained everything over these three or four years… you know exactly on what side I am.”
There’s more where that came from. “Another side I would say is that we are lucky we live in a marvellous country and society where everyone is inn-cent until proven guilty. We didn’t have this opportunity, we are already sentenced, and ‘tough’. What happened, I don’t know. On the other side, personally, I am happy that we are here, like Uefa happened. OK, we have a chance to defend [ourselves] … I think we have good lawyers, Uefa had good lawyers, and the Premier League – with 19 teams – are going to take up good lawyers too to defend their position, like we are going to defend our position.”
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Post by Webster on Feb 10, 2023 17:54:21 GMT
(The Guardian) “I would love to wait and see,” adds Guardiola. “Time will see, or time will dictate, what’s going to happen. Just in case we are not innocent, we will accept what the judge, the Premier League, decides. But what happens if, in the same situation as with Uefa happened, we are innocent? What happens to restore or pay back our damage?”
Guardiola pointedly lists the nine teams that wrote to Cas in support of City’s Champions League ban. “In this world there are not enemies or friends, there are just interests,” he says, which seems like a vaguely terrifying sentiment. He jokes that, if City are relegated to League Two, they will call up Paul Dickov and Mike Summerbee, get the band back together and bounce back to the Premier League. “But we should wait, because at the end, OK, the Premier League are going to decide and, OK, we are going to defend ourselves like what happened with the Uefa situation.”
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