Pep Guardiola mentions Steven Gerrard's slip in bizarre press conference | OneFootball

Pep Guardiola gave an astonishing press conference on Friday following Manchester City's Premier League charges.

Earlier in the week, City were hit with more than 100 charges of breaching financial rules between September 2009 and the end of the 2017-18 season.

Guardiola came out fighting when touching on the charges for the first time.

He defended his club from the charges, vowed to stay on as manager and called out the nine clubs who tried to get them banned from the Champions League.

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Pep Guardiola mentions Steven Gerrard's slip in press conference

The embargoed section of the press conference became available to watch on Saturday night.

And, in the segment, Guardiola's bizarrely mentioned Steven Gerrard's infamous slip for Liverpool against Chelsea in 2014.

Gerrard's slip led to Demba Ba's goal. Chelsea went on to win the game 2-0 and Man City managed to pip Liverpool to the Premier League title.

Asked if he would have the same emotional attachment to the trophies City have won during his tenure if charges are proven, Guardiola said: “Those moments belong to us. They absolutely belong to us, regardless of the sentence they belong to us.

“The goal from Sergio Agüero [in 2012], when Balotelli slipped."

Guardiola then bizarrely mentioned Gerrard's slip and sarcastically said City were at fault for it.

He continued: "I don’t know if we are responsible for Steven Gerrard slipping at Anfield. Was that our fault? I have respect for Steven Gerrard. It's our fault? But that moment belongs to us.

“The moments that we lived these years together, the Premier League will decide… but I know what we won and the way we won it. I know the effort we put in. If something happened in 2009 or 2010 it is not going to change one second.”

View Guardiola's full press conference below... (mentions Gerrard's slip at 2:10)

Guardiola then doubled down in his criticism of the nine clubs that tried to get City banned from the Champions League.

He added, per BBC: "But what these nine teams have done, I don't forget it. They want the position in the Champions League for the big amount of money to pay for the stadiums they built.

"They can be suspicious, that is OK, but (they should) wait. We can go with our lawyers and say, 'Listen, we have done this and this', as happened with Uefa.

"Wait, they didn't. Not even one second."