Josep Guardiola on KdB: “It’s been a difficult season for all of us due to the World Cup and many things. What I’d like (I spoke many times to him) is to go to the easy principles & do it well. He has an incredible ability to make an assist, to score goals & see passes like no one else.”
Kevin de Bruyne: “In comparison with other years, I feel not different. There are some games we should have won, it depends.
How can I compare the season with 100 points to winning four domestic titles. It makes no sense. I’m happy and lucky I’ve been there to do this stuff. Hopefully we can do the same with this team,
If we just win the UCL and nothing else, you can call the best in Europe but I don’t know. What are the criteria for being the best in the PL. Everyone has their opinion, we want to be the best every year. Eight years has been pretty great.
People are more prepared. Maybe he was prolific when he got the chances, but we don’t need to complain about him in any way. He’s fine, if you see Crystal Palace, he had two/three chances, there’s no issue.
If you care about the noise, we’ve not won it but we’ve done really well. People base everything on only winning. A lot of circumstances; the Madrid game, Tottenham, we deserved to go through. Moments in games, these things happen.
I want to win it, but I know as long as we don’t, I’ll get the same questions. If people judge you on that, we just try and win the games, be the best version we can be.
I’m not an old man. I’m sorry to you guys [journalists], but I’m pretty young. No offence.
I don’t know how long I’ve got left [in football]; as long as I’m having fun, I’ll keep on playing. There will come a day, I don’t know when.
At the start of the season, winning lots of games, nothing going wrong. Lose a few points and it’s different. I don’t feel any issue, nothing going out of the team, Erling. People outside will judge, maybe we play a brand of football in other years.
But other games, Palace at home he won us the game. The team is really happy, he’s happy playing with us, we’re fine.
I’ve been low, left, right. I change less now, it’s the coaches decision. I will never be a Fernandinho, he’s an unbelievable number six.
I’m a perfectionist. Whatever I do, football or normal life, whatever I do, I want to do 100%.”
Josep Guardiola on KdB on cityzensworld.com.