Man City boss Manuel Pellegrini says he is not worried about the future
Thursday 31 October 2019 14:51, UK
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini says Pep Guardiola's apology is of not of any consequence to him.
It was announced last month that Guardiola would be leaving his current club Bayern Munich at the end of the season, and he confirmed last week that he was planning to join a Premier League team.
His comments have prompted fevered speculation about who will hire the very highly-rated former Barcelona boss and Sky Bet make Manchester City their 1/5 favourites to be his next club.
Guardiola regrets the furore and apologised on Monday, stressing: "I respect my colleagues a lot. It was not my intention."
But Pellegrini says the apology did not cross his radar or was even aimed in his direction.
Asked what he made of Guardiola's remorse, Pellegrini said: "I don't worry about that. I don't think that apology is for me.
"I say the same thing I said three weeks ago, four weeks ago. I am not worried about the future.
"I try to do my best work here at Manchester City. My target is to try to win the Premier League this year, to try to be involved in every competition until the end, to try and win another competition.
"If, after that, I finish the year with those achievements, I will be very happy. At that moment, I will start thinking about the future."
City's next Premier League game is at home to Everton on Wednesday and they will be without Wilfried Bony, Fernandinho, Vincent Kompany, Eliaquim Mangala and Samir Nasri.
But David Silva and Yaya Toure will return after they were rested for Saturday's FA Cup win at Norwich.
Pellegrini said: "It was good to rest both of them, as they are in the squad list for tomorrow. Silva is 100 per cent fit, maybe it is a risk for him to play Wednesday to Saturday.
"Mangala tried to work yesterday with normality but he couldn't, he had some pain still in his muscle. For him, it's best to wait a bit more.
"It's the same for Fernandinho and Bony. For Kompany and Nasri, it is longer. Vincent tried a lot of different things to try and find the cause of the injury so we have no update at this time."
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