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Bournemouth v Man City: Pre-match preview
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01/11/2024
Michael Plant brings the latest news from Pep Guardiola's pre-match press conference, which included an update on Manchester City's injury issues.
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I'm at Manchester City's CFA training base where this afternoon Pep Guardiola held his
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pre-match press conference ahead of the game against Bournemouth tomorrow in the Premier
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League. The big talking point was of course injuries. City really struggle with quite
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a few injuries at the moment. Up to nine players have either been ruled out or doubts ahead
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of the game. And Guardiola speaking in the press conference today, to be honest he didn't
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really give much away. He said that the players are, some of them are kind of half-half in
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terms of could be back for the game. So at this stage we're not really any the wiser
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and he kind of joked and said you'll see the team sheet tomorrow. So the only update
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really that he did give was that Savino doesn't look as quite as serious as maybe we first
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feared on Wednesday night. He was of course taken off on a stretcher against Tottenham
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and initially there were concerns that it was a long-term injury but Guardiola confirmed
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that it's not a fracture, doesn't look like a major injury and he is actually possibly
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in line to return this weekend. So the fact that he's even in contention to possibly play
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some part does indicate that it's not a serious injury. Guardiola has spoken a lot about the
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fact that he prefers to work with a smaller squad. Of course when you do have so many
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injuries up to nine as I mentioned that does create plenty of problems and Guardiola was
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asked could he possibly look to make some additions in the January transfer window and
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his response was pretty emphatic no was the answer because he's hoping that many players
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will be back before the end of the nine. Only Rodri was the only one who won't be back by
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the end of January. Possibly Oscar Bob as well but certainly will be in around January
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that he'll be back. So no plans for City to really massively drop into the transfer market
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in January as a result of this injury outbreak and the only other news that I suppose has
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dominated Manchester football this week is the appointment of Ruben Amorim across the
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road at Old Trafford. Guardiola welcomed him of course bizarrely will actually come up
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against Amorim next week when City take on Sporting Lisbon in Portugal. Bit of a strange
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quirk I suppose that one of his actually penultimate matches still in charge of Sporting will come
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against the side who will be a big rival in just a few weeks time but you welcome Amorim.
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Refused to give him any kind of tips or advice. I'm sure that his bosses at City will be happy
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with that but welcomed him and he's expecting a fierce rivalry from the Portugal manager
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in the coming months and years of course.
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