Here are your Manchester City morning headlines for Sunday, May 31. A fellow trialist has revealed that Pep Guardiola didn’t join Manchester City as a player because he didn’t think he would touch the ball.
The former Barcelona midfielder spent time with Manchester City in 2005 when the club were under the management of Stuart Pearce and Guardiola was offered a six-month deal.
However, he turned it down and instead searched for a longer contract so he could settle with his family and thus never played in England as a player.
Former City winger Hussein Yasser, who made just one league cup appearance for the club, recalled a conversation with Guardiola as to why he wouldn’t be joining the club. “When I think about it now, Pearce wasn’t the