I have never watched United play under Mourinho – Guardiola

But the former France global seems to be back in Guardiola’s good books, impressing during his surprise 15-minute cameo as City maintained their flawless start to the Premier League season with a 3-1 victory over West Ham on Sunday.

“I’m enjoying my football and I am enjoying winning games and I am working hard to continue doing that”, he added.

Raheem Sterling insists he isn’t motivated by trying to prove critics wrong after starting the season in spectacular fashion for Manchester City. “It depends on a lot of things in fact”. Not just for me, but the other players as well, the whole team. Now, he is having to adapt to a new way of playing the game.

Who will come out on top in the Manchester derby? The Croat, however, dismissed the idea that Guardiola had simply sprinkled his magic over him.

But Guardiola said: “Stones is not injured, I don’t think so”.

After the restart, Nolito had the ball in the net only for the “goal” to be ruled out for offside and the same player came close with a shot into the side netting after yet another risky De Bruyne free-kick was only half-cleared.

“If we should play [United] in three or four days, OK, we go there”. I was a midfielder early in my career. In the first half he scored a goal but didn’t win too many defensive duels, the second half was better. “The derby is a big game, not just for the city but for the world”.

“I let people talk”. We created many chances, I don’t know how many shots we had but the performance in general was real good with or without the ball. I made a promise that when I came back at the start of the season I am going to work hard and be as consistent as I can.

“Every day I’m learning, a year ago learning, it was a massive learning curve for me”.

Indeed, Sterling’s opening goal in the seventh minute came from the fifth noteworthy attack of the game, a sign of what was to come in that period for Slaven Bilic’s hapless Hammers.

Samir Nasri is to meet Pep Guardiola on Tuesday to discuss whether he has a future at Man City, sources for SiaS have learned.

Asked what he had done for Sterling, Guardiola said: “Me?”

“I just tried to help him, to tell him he’ll receive the ball more often if he stays in his position”. Sometimes you do well and sometimes you are not at your best.