Pep Guardiola asked Jürgen Klopp and Jose Mourinho to call him to discuss their problems with the lifting of the European football ban in Manchester City.
The Spanish boss has apologized from his opposing coaches after Liverpool and Tottenham managers criticized the verdict on Tuesday.
City can compete in the next season’s Champions League after the Sports Arbitration Panel lifted UEFA’s two-year ban on financial fair play violations this week.
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The city has gotten a huge boost, but the rival managers are not so happy …
Guardiola refused to discuss what this means for his future, but said he was “incredibly happy” with the decision, adding that winning her sanction lifting offer was “a good day for football”.
Jürgen Klopp and Jose Mourinho, however, do not agree.
The Liverpool boss has said that City, though “happy”, won’t have an advantage in the title race next season if he’s not in Europe.Not a good day for football ‘.
Mourinho was more direct with his criticism. The Tottenham boss described the decision as “shame,” saying it marked the “end of FFP” and referred to the whole scenario as “circus.”
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But Guardiola insists City hasn’t done anything wrong since he passionately defended his club when speaking to the press ahead of the Premier League clash against Bournemouth on Wednesday.
“If you want to talk, I’m here,” Guardiola told Sky Sports News.
“The judgment of the three independent judges was clear. But if you want, you know my phone number, you can call me and I can explain it. That’s no problem at all.
“But I don’t think we have to argue much because the sentence was clear. All suggestions that we lied or cheated were not. We were clean, as they say.
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Guardiola has a long-standing rivalry with Mourinho and a fresh one with Klopp and would like both managers to apologize for their comments
“We should apologize,” added the Spaniard at his press conference. “If we did something wrong, we would accept UEFA’s decision because we did something wrong.
“We do not expect Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal, Chelsea or Wolves to defend us, but we have the right to defend ourselves if we believe that what we have done is right and three independent judges have said so .
“I am incredibly happy about the decision. It shows what everyone said about the club was wrong. We defend what we won on the pitch on the pitch.
“I know that it is uncomfortable for elite clubs, respectful clubs like Liverpool, Man United and especially Arsenal to be here.
“But you have to understand that we deserve to be here. If we want to compete with them, we go on the field and compete with them and try to achieve what they did in the past decades and what we did in this decade. We deserve to get stronger every year.
“Sometimes we win, sometimes not, but you have to understand it. If you do not agree, knock on the door or on our Chairman and CEO and speak. Don’t go whispering from behind, seven, eight, nine clubs – do it on the field.
“We are not blocked because we follow the rules of financial fair play and the rules that UEFA and FIFA have established. We did it right. Now people have to understand that we are here. “
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Guardiola has a rivalry with Mourinho that dates back to their time as archrival Barcelona and Real Madrid in Spain
Guardiola feels that a weight has been removed from the club and adds: “People cannot understand how difficult it was for everyone as a club to be under suspicion. Now we have proven it on the square, we go back to the square.
“Today is a good day, yesterday was a good day for football because we play according to the same rules as all clubs in Europe.
“If we had broken FFP we would have been banned, but we have to defend ourselves because we were right.
“We can play in the Champions League next season because what we did is right. You have to accept it, go on the field and play against us. “
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However, the manager was unwilling to discuss the impact of the judgment on his own future in the club.
Guardiola, who entered the last year of his £ 20m annual contract, was required to quit the club if his ban was upheld. However, he might now be tempted to commit after being released from the hook.
“Now is not the time,” he said.
“We have a month ahead of us. A year for a manager is a long, long time, and the decisions we made before the sentence were pretty similar now.
“I was happy before and now. We have time to talk about it. “
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