Pep Guardiola: Manchester City boss says maybe he is not good enough to win Champions League with club
Pep Guardiola has said he may not be adequate to win the Champions League with Manchester City after they were taken out by Real Madrid on Wednesday.
Genuine Madrid created an emotional late rebound at the Bernabeu to send Guardiola's side crashing out of the Champions League and deny them a second successive last.
It leaves City actually looking for a first Champions League prize, while Guardiola last tasted progress in Europe's tip top rivalry with Barcelona in 2011.
Be that as it may, Guardiola says the proprietor, Sheik Mansour, has not put resources into City exclusively for European achievement.
Inquired as to whether this gathering of players can win the Champions League, Guardiola said: "It's an inquiry I can't address - football is flighty.
"The proprietors didn't buy this club and put resources into these extraordinary offices just to win the Champions League, they did it to be there in all rivalries, each season.
"We need to [win the Champions League], perhaps I am not adequate to assist the group with getting it done. No one realizes what might occur with another chief and different players.
"Individuals say on the off chance that this gathering of players or Guardiola don't bring home a championship, then they're disappointments, I totally conflict. We know how troublesome everything is."
Inquired as to whether he is presently hungrier to win prizes, he added: "No, I am continuously starving. I can't spend a year simply pondering how blissful I am. Assuming that we had won the Champions League it would be the cash we spend, not how hard we work.
"The players don't understand now however it's [losing] a gift for us. I'd very much want to win the Champions League and be in the last however we must be better from what occurred in Madrid."
'No words can help what we as a whole vibe'
Guardiola said he had not addressed his players after Wednesday's sensational Real Madrid rebound denied them from arriving at a second successive Champions League last.
"No words can assist with feeling what we as a whole vibe," he said. "Simply time, rest as best as could be expected and consider the following objective.
"On Saturday, we'll be together and discuss our identity collectively and how we've gotten to the semi-finals of the Champions League. These are the minutes I am generally glad to be here."
"For me it's staggeringly striking to be in the Champions League semi-finals once more, making steps to be better and contending with a laid out group home and away," he added.
"Yet, the club and feeling we have, we attempt to make it happen. We acknowledge everybody was miserable however we were close. The players needed to play the last, however for this club to contend with Real the manner in which we did was a delight."
'I'm continuously starving for prizes'
Guardiola should forget about Wednesday's loss in Madrid as City rapidly turn their considerations to winning a third continuous Premier League title - an accomplishment no side has accomplished since Manchester United in 2007-09.
They continue the title race with an excursion to Newcastle on Sunday, live on Sky Sports Premier League.
Guardiola's side hold a two-point advantage over title rivals Liverpool, who can in any case accomplish an extraordinary Quadruple this season, with four games left of the association season.
"The center will be actually the equivalent in light of the fact that the potential last would have been after the Premier League," said Guardiola. "The Leeds game was troublesome and after this we realized it would be four finals.
"I'm not pondering the title, I'm contemplating Newcastle, center around the group and Eddie Howe.
"Kevin de Bruyne is accessible. He's benefit. It was strategic [to substitute him against Real Madrid]."
