Pep Guardiola reveals change he will make to team-talks this season to save Man City £2MILLION - after club were slapped with fines for bad habit over last two campaigns
- Pep Guardiola will try to shorter his team-talks after Man City were fined £2m
- The club were hit with the fine for 22 separate violations over two seasons
- He also commented on Enzo Maresca and gave an Erling Haaland fitness update
Pep Guardiola says he will try to make his half-time team talks shorter after Manchester City were fined £2million for late kick-offs by the Premier League.
City were slapped with the sanction for 22 separate violations over the last two seasons.
That included them being nearly three minutes late restarting the second half of their last game of the campaign against West Ham when they were crowned champions at the Etihad Stadium.
Guardiola was asked about the fine ahead of facing Chelsea in a friendly in Colombus, Ohio. He said: ‘I just read it in the news. I would try to do my speeches at half-time shorter.’
Speaking about his former assistant Enzo Maresca now being in charge of Chelsea, Guardiola said: ‘I'm really pleased for him. We spent a special year together. But more than when he was in the second team together, he is an incredible, lovely person. And his family, too.
Pep Guardiola has revealed he will shorten his half-time team talks - which have been costly
Man City have been fined £2million for 22 separate violations over the last two seasons
'He did a really good job, unbelievable, at Leicester, promotion to the Premier League and now he is in one of the top five, six teams in England.
'And I wish him the best because he deserves it. Nice people deserve the best.
‘To be a manager is believing something deeply but, really, deeply, deeply. And whatever the results, I stick with my idea.
'And that's why he believes in what he does. And he will have success. I don't know how long, but he will have it.’
On Erling Haaland’s fitness, he said: ‘He told me today he woke up and feels much better. And hopefully tomorrow he can play a few minutes.’
