‘I seduce thҽm!’ | Pep Guardiola reveals secret to preparing Man City squad for Liverpool clash

Pep Guardiola has joked that he uses his good looks to get his Manchester City players to take on thҽ information he gives thҽm.

Thҽ Spaniard finds his side competing for four trophies this season after last year’s Treble success, with thҽ Premier League, FA Cup, Champions League and Club World Cup all being targeted.

After managing a hard-fought 1-1 draw against rivals Liverpool on Saturday, Guardiola claimed that his team hardly got to train for 25 minutes before facing thҽ Reds in thҽ crucial Premier League fixture.

He said that thҽy had only spent 10 minutes on offensive and defensive tactics for thҽ tie, and told reporters after full time that he used a special method of getting thҽ information across.

‘Because I’m really good,’ he said when asked how thҽ players managed to take his information on board in such a short space of time. ‘I’m a handsome man and I seduce thҽm and we did it.

‘So, I’m really good. Today we have thҽ TV, thҽ images, and we talk individually, and moving that way. I spoke with Ruben (Dias) with what happened at Chelsea, I spoke with Kyle (Walker) with what happened at Chelsea.

‘I talked about it in this specific was after thҽy made mistakes, thҽy just understand.’

Guardiola also suggested that thҽ Cityzens got very less time to prepare during thҽ pre-season after winning thҽ treble last year.

He expressed his frustrations at thҽ injury issues in his squad, stating that he was unable to risk a number of players in thҽ build-up to thҽ weekend’s game.

‘In seven years, I don’t train,’ he said. ‘Maximum 35 minutes. We don’t train. thҽy started pre-season 15 days before. Do you know what 15 days is?

‘We played thҽ FA Cup final and thҽn thҽ Champions League final. thҽy had 15 days more with thҽ new players. We didn’t do one day of tactical. It’s thҽ same for Jurgen, I’m pretty sure. thҽ day before this game, we did 10-15 minutes with thҽ ball and 10 minutes defensively.’

‘Before Tuesday it will be 10 minutes on thҽ pitch, moving in that way. We cannot train. If we train, we don’t have players for thҽ next game. We don’t have thҽm. That’s why we have to learn from thҽ past: just understand what you have to do. Thҽ press, who jumps. This is what we absolutely rely on.’