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Guardiola threatens to quit over squad size: An interesting line from Pep Guardiola?s post-match presser last night, the Manchester City manager threatening to quit unless his squad?s size is reduced. Guardiola feels it?s unfair on those members of his squad denied sufficient game time. Guess he?ll never get the Chelsea gig then. Whether he?ll still say that in the midst of a mid-November injury crisis and lean run, well we?ll see.
?I said to the club I don?t want that [a bigger squad. I don?t want to leave five or six players in the freezer. I don?t want that. I will quit. Make a shorter squad, I will stay. It?s impossible for my soul to give my players in the tribune [stands] that they cannot play. Now it happened to add players immediately.
?Maybe [for] three, four months we couldn?t select 11 players, we didn?t have defenders, it was so difficult. After people come back but next season it cannot be like that. As a manager I cannot train 24 players and every time I select I have to have four, five, six stay in Manchester at home because they cannot play. This is not going to happen. I said to the club. I don?t want that.?
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