Pep Guardiola says he doesn’t think about not reaching the co-level of the Champions League when he is preparing for a must-win against Club Brugge.
The 2023 champions had a bad first campaign in New Look format and go to the last day of Wednesday in the 25th place.
The teams from ninth to 24 years go into a play-off round, so the defeat against the Belgian side would mean an end to the end of their European season.
The statisticians opta Give the city a qualification of 63.8% – while Brugge is probably 93.9%.
Pep 💬 (on John Stones) he played 35 minutes (against Chelsea) and played really well. We’ll see today how he feels. pic.twitter.com/z0v7ff2hed
– Manchester City (@mancity) January 28, 2025
Guardiola said: “The situation we have must win the game and if not, we will not continue in the competition and we want to go through to have another chance of playing two more games and for the next stage qualify.
“It’s not a problem, it’s a chance, a challenge and we will face you.
“It would not be good for the club not to qualify, but I’m not thinking about it at the moment. I know that for all of the locations, we will qualify whether we will qualify or not, I think we’ll do it. “
The city was major expenses on the January market and spent around £ 125 million for Omar Marmoush, Abdukodir Khusanov and Vitor Reis, but Guardiola knows that he does not know how the failure of not being found in Europe would affect the association financially.
“I don’t know,” he said. “I didn’t talk to the CEO about it.
“It has always been positive in the last two or three transmission windows. I am not naive enough to not know how important it is financially that the club can go through this competition – it can influence the club, but of course we want to try to achieve it for sports reasons and go through first.
“In the past five or six years, net editions in this club have been incredible. The club said ok that the situation is the situation if we want to spend, we can spend, and if not, we do not spend. “
