Pep Guardiola’s interview after Manchester City’s win was so awkward

The Spaniard won three La Liga titles and two Champions Leagues at Barcelona and claimed three successive Bundesliga crowns with Bayern Munich before taking over from Manuel Pellegrini at City in the summer.

Manchester City are back to the winning ways in the Premier League after a quite hard 2-1 victory over Burnley at the Etihad in the first match of 2017. I arrive, I do training, we play, we train, we play and after that we see what’s going on, to see what the good things are, the bad things and how we can improve.

Pep Guardiola came into the Premier League under intense scrutiny from the start.

Asked about his comments to NBC at his post-match news conference, he said: “It (City) might be one of my last teams”. This was the Brazilian’s third red card in his last six appearances.

Fernandinho was given a straight red card for a scissors challenge on Johann Berg Gudmundsson, but Pep Guardiola brought on Sergio Aguero and David Silva at half-time, with Aguero scoring the second goal after a Gael Clichy opener.

His repeated insistence that “more than you believe, I’m happy” wasn’t quite convincing, but we’ll have to take his word on it.

Guardiola claimed not to know that Wijnaldum’s eighth minute goal was the sixth City had conceded in the opening 15 minutes of league matches this season but it should be a worry to him that his players are starting so slowly. I don’t think he’s exhausted.

The Clarets’ manager now hopes his side can take heart from periods of the game when they were on top, adding “now it’s about continuing the journey and staying resolute to our performances in order to get what we want“. It was his fault, Claudio Bravo, all the around the world, but here no.

After enjoying a flying start to life in the Premier League, Guardiola is struggling to instill his philosophies on his players.

Sky, who pay a fortune for the EPL rights, described Guardiola as “prickly” after he gave curtailed responses and refused to elaborate on points. I have to understand the rules here in England.