Your evening headlines for Manchester City on Wednesday, July 27.
John Stones makes admission over Man City players sold this summer
John Stones admitted it will be hard to go into the new season without players that have left Manchester City but backed the recruitment team to continue to deliver success.
It has been a bigger summer of change than usual at the Etihad, with four significant additions to the first-team squad and five exits helping to give a fresh look to Pep Guardiola's squad. As well as Zack Steffen, City have lost Stones' England teammate Raheem Sterling, club captain Fernandinho and popular members of the dressing room Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko.
City's dressing room has been a key part of their success, with the group backing each other and supporting each other through the good and bad moments over the course of a season. Guardiola employs a small squad to both provide ferocious competition for places and make sure everyone feels they are within touching distance of a starting place.
Pep Guardiola set challenge to Man City players in Anfield dressing room before Liverpool match
Pep Guardiola warned his Manchester City players that he would be 'taking notes' on anybody who didn't follow his instructions in a crunch Premier League game with Liverpool last season.
A new seven-part documentary produced by the club follows every step the first team made during another title-winning campaign, with cameras on the training pitches and inside the dressing rooms up and down the country as Guardiola and his squad chased more silverware. It helps to unearth untold stories behind the team's latest achievements, and the first episode shines a light on the manager's motivational skills.
With the Blues facing a fiendish run of fixtures early in the season that saw them go to Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain and Liverpool in the space of a week, Guardiola had already told his players in training ahead of those matches that he would accept them losing as long as they showed that they wanted the ball. And footage taken from inside the Anfield dressing room shows him reiterating this message after victory at Stamford Bridge and defeat in Paris.
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