Pep will call halt to super splurge

RECORD spender Pep Guardiola says football’s transfer market has reached “unsustainable” levels.

And Guardiola, right, says Manchester City will never need to spend as much again as they have done over his first two summers in charge.

He has bought six players for about £210million this summer – a Premier League record for one transfer window after a £160m splash on seven men last summer.

But he says now that his squad is stocked with young players, the spending will slow down.

“It is unsustainable,” he said. “Sooner or later, it’s going to finish. Hopefully next season I’ll be here and we are not going to spend how we spent this season. In the next three, four years City will buy one, two, maybe three players. But not what happened this summer.

“We needed to do that because it was one of the oldest teams in Europe, not just the Premier League. We were not able to find a solution with those players.

“But the solution is not changing players every season. We decided to bring in energy with the new players and have signed them for the next four, five, six years. So our average age is down to 24 and that means a lot for the future of the club.” Four of the six new boys, Ederson Moraes, Kyle Walker, Danilo and Bernardo Silva, will be involved today against newly promoted Brighton.