{"id":11188,"date":"2023-11-24T20:32:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T17:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/11188\/guardiola-asks-for-patience-before\/"},"modified":"2023-11-24T20:32:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T17:32:48","slug":"guardiola-asks-for-patience-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=11188","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola asks for patience before assuming Man City guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardiola asks for patience before assuming Man City guilt\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Rob Dawson, correspondent<span class=\"timestamp \">November 24, 2023, 2:58 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>MANCHESTER, England \u2014 Pep Guardiola asked for patience before deciding whether Manchester City is guilty of financial rule violations, but insists he is more likely to stay at the club &#8220;if we are in League One than if we We were in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-point penalty handed out to Everton for a breach of Premier League financial rules opened the door to an even harsher punishment for City if the 115 charges made against them in February were proven.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guardiola, however, said the cases were &#8220;completely different&#8221; but confirmed he would remain as coach if City were relegated or kicked out of the league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou ask us questions as if we have been punished,\u201d Guardiola said at a press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now we are innocent until proven guilty. I know the people want that. I know, I feel it. I will wait. Wait and see and once the sentence is handed down we will come here and we&#8217;ll explain it. There&#8217;s a better chance of staying if we&#8217;re in Ligue 1 than if we <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> the Champions League.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Manchester City faces Liverpool this weekend. <cite>Photo by Michael Regan\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Everton said in a statement they were &#8220;shocked and disappointed&#8221; by the 10-point deduction which left Sean Dyche&#8217;s side in the relegation zone.<\/p>\n<p>There is no timetable yet for a decision on City&#8217;s charges, with the decision to be made by an independent panel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I won&#8217;t say a word about Everton because I don&#8217;t know the reality of what really happened,&#8221; Guardiola added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe you know that but [I] \u00bb asked our team and these are two completely different cases.  I know when people say, &#8220;Okay, City, why don&#8217;t they go to the Conference?&#8221;  &#8221; Wait.  Wait.  And then what happens will happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re two different cases. It&#8217;s not the same. Honestly. I talked to my people and said it&#8217;s completely different. Okay, the other one is longer because it&#8217;s more complicated because there are 115 violations. So wait.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, City face Liverpool at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday and Guardiola hopes striker Erling Haaland will be fit despite suffering an ankle injury on international duty with Norway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe trained yesterday [Thursday] with a few small problems,&#8221; Guardiola said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we have the final training and I hope he can be part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardiola asks for patience before assuming Man City guilt\u060c Rob Dawson, correspondentNovember 24, 2023, 2:58 p.m. MANCHESTER, England \u2014 Pep Guardiola asked for patience before deciding whether Manchester City is guilty of financial rule violations, but insists he is more likely to stay at the club &#8220;if we are in League One than if we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6386,6387,808,3018,6388,32,4791],"class_list":["post-11188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-asks","tag-assuming","tag-city","tag-guardiola","tag-guilt","tag-man","tag-patience"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11190,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11188\/revisions\/11190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}