'It's not going to change' - Pep Guardiola makes honest Man City admission | OneFootball

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola rated his own performance in the dugout this season as "really poor" and admitted that even winning the FA Cup would not change his lowly opinion of the campaign.

Guardiola's side are no strangers to breaking records, although the 2024/25 campaign has seen City tumble past some unwanted milestones.

For the first time in the Catalan coach's glittering managerial career, he failed to guide his side into the Champions League round of 16. This waning iteration of City has already conceded more league goals than any other Guardiola team with nine matches remaining and is at real risk of recording his worst ever top-flight finish.

On the same afternoon that he admitted the players didn't deserve any financial bonus this term, Guardiola provided a similarly scathing assessment of his own coaching performance. "Really poor" was his verdict. When asked to expand on these struggles, Guardiola shrugged: "Forget about it.

"The titles we won in the past, never the opponents gave us a red carpet to win the titles that we won. My duty was to overcome the situation much better than I've done."

Pep Guardiola has repeatedly cut a frustrated figure on the sidelines / OLI SCARFF/GettyImages

Even as City prepared for an FA Cup quarter-final against Bournemouth on Sunday, Guardiola saw no redemption arc for his side. "I said many times recently; Of course it could be nice to arrive in the final of the FA Cup and win it, and qualify for the Champions League, but I'm pretty sure right now what happened before is a big success. But the season has been poor, it's not going to change.

"Our standards and many things were not good, this is the reality. So it's not going to change for the fact, you know, to win one title. We will be happy? Of course we want to do it! We have one more but how we behave all of us this season, it's not going to change so qualify for the Champions League.

"Again, I said it's a big success, winning the FA Cup is a huge success, but the season has not been good."