Pep and the players! What a nice quatation review!
Pep: “I’m so sorry for the Algerian people. It’s not my intention to make you feel sad [by keeping Riyad Mahrez on the bench vs Newcastle]. But we have other players, for example Julian [Alvarez] from Argentina — who always will be sad with me because he didn’t play.”
“There is Sergio Gomez from Spain that is upset with me, also Kalvin Phillips didn’t play and all the British people are upset with me because he didn’t play. I have to take decisions, I have a huge opinion about Riyad; exceptional player.”
“Bernardo [Silva] has never been top scorer or top assists, but he helps us to play better. You want stats? Ok, go to the big data and congratulations, you can write a big article. But there are things that don’t come in data, it’s unique.”
“If we’re able to win the [next three] games, we’re still alive in three competitions… If we lose, we’ll be out of four competitions — simple. Arriving at these stages, you know exactly when you lose games, you lose competitions.”
“Always the standards of Kevin [de Bruyne are] in the sky. Everyone knows this is his level. In one week, another opportunity to show quality… Come back to the principles, work hard, and everything is going to come back without effort.”
Pep and the players on cityzensworld.com
