“Not a lot” – Pep Guardiola confirms way forward for unsure Manchester Metropolis starlets following Ilkay Gundogan signing

Pep Guardiola has confirmed the respective futures of a few of Manchester Metropolis’s rising younger abilities within the membership’s first-team squad, in gentle of Ilkay Gundogan’s arrival.

The German midfielder accomplished an emotional return to the Etihad Stadium final week, only one yr on from ending an preliminary seven-year spell with Manchester Metropolis by becoming a member of FC Barcelona on a free switch.

Precarious monetary circumstances on the Camp Nou membership meant that Gundogan’s place throughout the squad was deemed surplus to necessities with the intention to save on his wage package deal and enhance probabilities of registering new signings with La Liga.

With Manchester Metropolis on the hunt for brand spanking new defensive midfielders and versatile choices for the centre of the park all through the continuing summer time switch window, the provision of Gundogan – who is aware of the system so properly – was deemed a no brainer.

However some supporters have been left questioning what the 33-year-old’s arrival may imply for a few of Manchester Metropolis’s current choices, particularly these newly-promoted from the Academy set-up.

Talking throughout a current press convention after the arrival of Ilkay Gundogan from Barcelona, Pep Guardiola reassured Manchester Metropolis supporters and people straight affected inside his first-team squad of their futures remaining on the Etihad Stadium regardless of the signing.

“Everybody stays right here. We shouldn’t have the depth of squad, now we have 19, 20, 21 gamers. So not a lot,” Guardiola stated. “Younger gamers like Nico (O’Reilly), and now the scenario of Oscar (Bobb) till December, January he won’t be right here with us, so nothing adjustments.”

Guardiola continued, “There’s a number of video games and everybody has to battle. The impression will rely on how he performs. If he performs good, the impression can be good, if he performs not good, the impression can be not good. So we all know him somewhat bit.

“As a supervisor, I’m not an enormous, large fan of re-signing gamers with this age, I’m not an enormous fan of that. However I do know fairly properly Ilkay, and I do know fairly properly his mentality is in the best place, an enormous competitor, and with the monetary scenario for the switch, he left without cost, he got here again without cost, in order that’s regular.

“We talked about that and we stated, ‘OK, we will do it’. And if we will, as a result of the negotiations between golf equipment isn’t my enterprise, and the wage as properly I don’t know, if it occurs however now we have to strive.”

James McAtee and Nico O’Reilly impressed all through pre-season alongside star identify Oscar Bobb, who was a shining gentle within the goalscoring class along with his key involvements in objectives, assists, and total performances operating via till and together with the Neighborhood Defend.

Sadly for the latter of the trio, the Norwegian worldwide is predicted to be dominated out till in the direction of the top of the continuing calendar yr, after a freak coaching floor accident left the 21-year-old with a fractured bone in his leg.

Oscar Bobb has since undergone surgical procedure in Barcelona and is about to return to Manchester and the Metropolis Soccer Academy for additional rehabilitation and restoration, with a view in the direction of returning to coaching floor motion through the opening weeks of December.