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Pep Guardiola has insisted that Kalvin Phillips may nonetheless have a future at Manchester City and advised the midfielder to show him unsuitable throughout his mortgage spell at West Ham.
The England worldwide is about to hitch the Hammers for the remainder of the season, regardless of earlier curiosity from Barcelona, with Phillips on the lookout for first-team soccer after Guardiola gave him simply two Premier League begins throughout his 18 months on the Etihad Stadium.
City have struck a deal that offers West Ham the choice to buy the 28-year-old in the summertime however regardless of giving Phillips simply 89 minutes of top-flight soccer this season, Guardiola claimed he may come again and play a component in his aspect.
“Yes, why not?” he stated. “He has to play to make me realise how wrong I was. For the guys who behave well I don’t care, but these kind of persons who help us in every training session and in the minutes he played, with that I always feel what could I do more, so hopefully he can play regularly. And of course. Why not?”
City paid Leeds £42.5m for Phillips in 2022 and Guardiola stated he has to shoulder extra of the blame than the midfielder for the best way it has not labored out for him.
“In that position we need another thing that sometimes myself struggle a little bit to see him,” added the City supervisor. “That’s all. The quality is there. That’s why he’s in the national team. Look what he’s done at Leeds, the quality is there.
“I regret more myself than Kalvin. With others no, but with him, and [considering] how he behaved, it’s my responsibility. I have to be here to help the players develop and be better players and suit what we want to do and I was not able to do it.”
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