by Pep Guardiola promised to retaliate next season after accepting his Manchester City team lost his advantage this quarter.
City endured a disappointing campaign that fell well from the rhythm in the Premier League and experienced difficulties in the Champions League.
It was difficult to travel for a team that won 18 trophies since Guardiola took care of in 2016, but the Spaniard was a point.
Guardiola said: “We are not the best in the circumstances, absolutely. I am not stupid enough not to know what our standards and our levels are. Everyone knows.
“However, I believe they are a fantastic group of players, as we have proven in seven, eight, nine years old. For two months of bad results, I will not change the opinion.
“But I saw it several times – three months ago, two months ago, that this season, we are going to suffer, and it happened.
“However, next season, we will really come back.
“Now take time. It is a question of surviving, qualifying, fighting for the title if possible, if not accepting the reality that it is completely different from what we had in the past eight or nine years.
“In as much, we accept it, but never forget who we are, how good we are, we will move forward.
“Normality is what we did. That I am almost sure, but it made me realize even better now than what we did was exceptional. “”
City is in a battle at the same time to stay in the Champions League of this season and qualify again for the competition next time.
They are currently fifth in the Premier League, 12 points behind the leaders, Liverpool, having played one more game, and with the fourth place Chelsea by visiting the Etihad stadium in a confrontation of the crunch this weekend.
They then welcomed the Brugge club on Wednesday in a match they have to win to avoid the elimination of the Champions League.
Despite the situation, Guardiola remains optimistic to overthrow the season.
He said: “Many big clubs, such as Chelsea at the moment, are not in the Champions League. (Manchester) United is not the Champions League. It can happen to us, definitely, not being there.
“But we have to try to do it because we are in time. We are in time to qualify for the Champions League, we are in time to fight for the Premier League, the FA Cup final, to recover who we are. »»
City fought against many injury problems this season, especially with the influential midfielder Rodri, has excluded the majority of the campaign.
Although Guardiola does not think that qualifying for the Champions League would be equivalent to winning a trophy, he thinks, given the circumstances, this could be considered a success.
He said: “Equivalent realization, no, but there are seasons where there are many difficulties. This is how you get up and do it.
“I remember that Jose (Mourinho) said that finishing second was greater success. I fully understand.
“When Rodri is there, when the defenders are there, when many players are here, we will not be 25th in the Champions League.
“Sometimes when you live these situations and make, it’s a great success.”
