Guardiola knows Blues perfection just impossible

PEP GUARDIOLA claims he will never be near perfection at Manchester City because football is constantly changing.

City are set to take their spending this season to over £260million by activating centre-half Aymeric Laporte’s £57m buy-out clause at Athletic Bilbao.

The deal will be the largest in their big-spending history, topping the £55m paid for Kevin De Bruyne.

Yet Guardiola (above) insists his City team will still not be complete, even though they remain on course for an historic quadruple because the form and commitment of his players are constantly fluctuating.

“I think it’s never near,” said the City boss. “Because one season the situation will be when players don’t play regularly, they don’t accept that position, so maybe the next season they will want to leave. And the players who play at a top, top level one season, sometimes are not going to play regularly like that season.

“Always you try to solve the situations year by year. It’s not like you play like this, so it’s going to work for the next three years. Big mistake.

“In football, you can be a good team and champions and then the next month, you are in the bottom.

“You say why? We are the same, the same players, the same ideas and it’s not going well. It is better to focus on Cardiff and I don’t know what will happen in the summer.”

Tomorrow’s FA Cup clash will be City’s 37th of their season, yet Guardiola says there is no point complaining, like Jose Mourinho or Jurgen Klopp would do, adding: “The TV decide the schedule because of their interests and nothing is going to change, so no complaining.”