Manchester City: 'Forget' about quadruple - Guardiola tell players

Manchester City Spanish Manager Pep Guardiola (with arms spread open) - Getty 

"Forget" about winning the quadruple, Manchester City Manager Pep Guardiola told his players.


Premier league champions City have already won the Carabao Cup and can return to the top of the table with a win at home to Cardiff on Wednesday.

They then face Brighton in the FA Cup semi-finals on Saturday and Tottenham in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final on 9 April.

Guardiola said, "In one week or three days we can lose all three titles."

The former Barcelona coach has won two League Cups and last season's Premier League since joining City in the summer of 2016.

"Why talk about the quadruple when in this country - a legendary country - it has never happened before.

"Legendary teams like Liverpool, the period [of Manchester United] with Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho at Chelsea, Arsene Wenger with Arsenal - no one did it. So why should we do it?

"I'm not in the minds of my players and the fans to tell them what to think.

"If they want to dream and think about winning everything, I'm not a guy to say anything.

"Of course we are there but I said to the players, 'Forget about it, don't think too much.

"'I know in your heads we can win all the titles, but for now it's Cardiff."