Even before Tuesday's Champions League exit at the hands of Liverpool, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola acknowledged his team were not ready to win Europe's elite club trophy. "Right now, I think we are still not ready to win the Champions League but we made a step forward in that competition. The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager, who won the Champions League with the Spanish club in 2009 and 2011, has often framed the issue of City's challenge to improve in the Champions League purely in terms of experience. But with Vincent Kompany now 32 and having had another injury-interrupted season, Guardiola may well look for a central defender as an alternative to Nicolas Otamendi and John Stones. With all their resources, City could surely make use of a different kind of forward to supplement their current duo.

Source: dna April 11, 2018 14:15 UTC