i think it's a really, really good team so we could win a lot of games with this with this squad
Hi I'm Pep Guardiola and this is my selection, our selection for the Puma team
and it's not bad to be honest.
I was fortunate here in Manchester to know this guy Scott Carson.
He's our third keeper. Sometimes one became a manager to have the opportunity to to know
people like him. So he's like a captain. He's beloved, incredible love for the team
and i'm pretty sure when we will need it he will respond, I'm pretty sure.
Kyle walker. One of the most physical football players I ever met in my career.
His physicality is incredible he could play every three days without a problem and he's so strong.
Vincent Kompany, the captain that I met since I arrived, what could i say for
him. He's truly a legend for this club and he helps me a lot. When you arrive as a manager,
you have important players that help you support you or you're nothing to do and in the bad moments
he was always there and in the good moments too and I miss him a lot and a special person.
Alex Zinchenko. Alex is a number 10 player and play with that with the left back that's
why he made an incredible effort to play in this position. He's so clever with the ball
incredible quality and he's a funny guy and he has an incredible heart.
Cesc Fabregas. I stayed a short time with him in Barcelona and maybe he's the best quarterback i
ever i ever seen in my career as a football player or manager. He has an incredible vision when he
has the ball to look forward. Every pass he did would make sense and always with idea to score a
goal. I think he's a guy he has the ability, it doesn't matter whether it's 10 meters,
20, 40 meters to put the ball in front of the keeper. Huge talent, really, really huge talent.
Fernandinho, another one of our captains, has been here since the day one until now and i would say
it's he's an incredible person and and now he's a 36/37 years old so it's at the end of his career
and i still now have the desire the passion and right now is our captain and he is a guy who I can
trust him on the pitch and of the pitch 100%. He's another guy who helps me a lot to settle good in
the beginning and help me to have the success that we had in this club in the last years.
Seydou Keita one of my favourite ones, maybe he's one of the most generous and nicest persons I ever
met in the world of football. I would love to have him right now even at 34 years old for example
and he never complains he's a typical guy like if he plays or doesn't play, he'll always be with
you. All the time. If he plays five minutes he's going to play the best five minutes, If he plays
90 minutes, it's the best 90 minutes and always he's a guy who thinks the best for the team.
David silva last year was our captain. He's a guy who's another incredible legend here in this club
and he's a guy like playing small pockets
in the difficult smaller spaces that we need is a genius and what surprised me the most when
I met him is he's an incredible competitor and what a physically strong player he is.
So it was incredible these years together it was a part of our success
Thierry Henry, I love this guy! When arriving in Barcelona he struggled the first year there after
being an incredible legend at Arsenal. Sometimes I reviewed his clips and he was the best player in
the league many years in this league. He helped with the Arsenal team to achieve incredible
achievements and especially our first year he was incredibly important for the year we won the
six titles in a row. Titi was so important, his movement, runs in behind, the mentality
to be a competitor and especially in important game to be decisive. So always a pleasure when
I am able to speak with him now I know he's in MLS and hopefully he can he can have a good season.
OK the last two are strikers Sergio the first one. I think he's the guy being a huge, huge,
huge star is the most humble person. Normally the bigger stars they are a little bit, you know
like characters opposite to us or too competitive in the good terms because sometimes to be
a superstar you have to be a little bit arrogant. He's a guy who loves what he does
and what can I say. He scored the most the most important goal in this club and I think
he produced the huge moment of joy for the Manchester City family for the rest of our lives.
And the last one Samuel Eto'ot is if not the best, he's close the best striker I've ever seen.
He could do absolutely everything and he's a typical player in the important games always
was there. All the time was there. That year with the six titles in a row, the same year like Titi,
he was an incredible part, an incredible part of this, and he's humble enough,
humble enough in terms... OK. Samuel is maybe not the humblest person I ever met
but humble enough when you had him playing winger, right winger he accept for the best of the team.
I think it's a really really good team so we could win a lot of games with this with this squad