Pep Guardiola has told his Man City bosses that he will quit if his squad isn’t trimmed down over the summer.
“I said to the club I don’t want that [a bigger squad]. I don’t want to leave five or six players in the freezer. I don’t want that. I will quit,” he said on Tuesday night.
“If they make a shorter squad I will stay. It’s impossible for my soul to give my players in the tribune that they cannot play.
“Maybe for three or four months we couldn’t select 11 players, we didn’t have defenders, it was so difficult. After people come back but next season it cannot be like that.
“As a manager I cannot train 24 players and every time I select I have to have four, five, six stay in Manchester at home because they cannot play. This is not going to happen. I said to the club I don’t want that.”