Pep Guardiola: People want to see Man City wiped ‘from the face of the Earth'

City are facing the menace of a points deduction oregon adjacent expulsion from the Premier League aft being charged with 115 breaches of the competition's regulations pursuing an probe into their fiscal affairs.

A long-awaited proceeding into the substance began earlier this week and a verdict is expected to beryllium delivered adjacent year.

City manager Guardiola has claimed antecedently that immoderate of the club's rivals privation to spot them recovered blameworthy and helium appears successful nary uncertainty they would expect punishment to beryllium severe.

Guardiola brought up the substance unprompted astatine a property league to preview Sunday's clash with Arsenal portion ostensibly delivering an reply astir the inclination of radical to overly criticise isolated atrocious performances.

He said: "During a season, you tin say, 'Oh, it was a atrocious season'.

"But for performances immoderate radical say, 'Oh, it's a disgrace, it is simply a disaster, it's unacceptable'. No, during 90 minutes it's 1 atrocious day erstwhile they were better.

"But I would accidental - I'm sorry, I privation to support my club, particularly successful these modern days erstwhile everyone is expecting america not to beryllium relegated, to beryllium disappeared disconnected the look of the Earth, the satellite - that we person amended afternoons than the opponents. That's wherefore we triumph a lot."

Guardiola had moved onto that taxable aft highlighting the value of playing a pragmatic game.

City nether Guardiola are renowned for their power of possession and fluid style, based connected playing retired from the back.

Pragmatism is not thing they are usually associated with but Guardiola feels radical should not place different facet of play they are not lone bully at, but the best.

He said: "We are truthful pragmatic arsenic a squad - look astatine the results.

"People deliberation if you person a build-up, a batch of passes and possibly nary agelong balls oregon modulation that we are not pragmatic.

"(People believe) being pragmatic is lone related to results and not successful beauteous football. I don't judge successful that.

"Pragmatic? We are the champion squad successful the satellite astatine being pragmatic. Look the numbers. We won a lot.

"I judge successful being pragmatic and we judge successful the mode we play. We are unbelievably pragmatic, the champion I would say. I'm sorry, that is the truth."