John Stones makes bold Pep Guardiola claim about interim England manager Lee Carsley

Manchester City defender John Stones believes Lee Carsley is akin to Pep Guardiola "in galore ways", with the interim England manager preparing for his side's upcoming clashes with Greece and Finland

John Stones believes England person got their ain mentation of Pep Guardiola arsenic interim manager.

The Manchester City defender, who volition triumph his 82nd headdress astatine Wembley tonight, has been hugely impressed with the occupation Lee Carsley has done since taking implicit from Gareth Southgate.

And erstwhile it was suggested that Guardiola and Carsley are like-minded coaches, Stones agreed, saying: “In ways, yes, definitely.

“There are a batch of similarities betwixt Lee and Pep successful however they spot the crippled and however they privation america to play and I deliberation we saw that past period erstwhile we played the 2 games and got affirmative results from them.

“It’s been large for maine with the likenesses of however we play.”

Stones was a Southgate stalwart, having featured successful the erstwhile manager’s archetypal crippled arsenic England manager 8 years ago.

But portion a caller managerial epoch initially felt unusual for Stones, helium soon got into the Carsley routine.

Stones, 30, said: “It was a unusual feeling aft being with Gareth, Steve (Holland) and each the team. And, personally, I've not had galore managers passim my career.

“But they person decidedly bedded successful now. It has been a precise seamless transition, which is simply a recognition to them and not casual to do.

“They (Carsley and his staff) bash a batch of probe connected america arsenic players and arsenic teams and spot however we play astatine our clubs and effort to bring that successful and marque it arsenic casual arsenic imaginable for us, arsenic players, to gel unneurotic and determination guardant successful one direction.”

Stones volition determination up of Rio Ferdinand and Jordan Henderson connected the all-time England caps database erstwhile helium steps retired to look Greece successful the archetypal of a Nations League double-header.

And the City centre-half could skipper the Three Lions if Harry Kane does not marque it.

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