Pep Guardiola says he can ‘understand’ comments made by Bruno Fernandes (Picture: Getty)
Pep Guardiola has responded to comments made by Manchester United star Bruno Fernandes ahead of the FA Cup final on Saturday.
Guardiola’s Manchester City team are able to achieve a treble this season having lifted the Premier League trophy and have reached the Champions League final.
The Red Devils are determined to stop them from doing it, with United currently the only English team to have ever won a treble, which came in 1999.
Fernandes recently spoke about the possibility of City becoming the second team to win a treble and said: ‘We know the story of our club and that the fans don’t want City to do that.
‘We know if we win the trophy, the consequence of that is Man City cannot do the treble anymore.
‘But from the players’ side, it is just about winning the game because we want to win a trophy for ourselves, the club, the fans. That is it.’
Guardiola, responding to those remarks, said on Friday: ‘I didn’t speak with Bruno Fernandes and company to know exactly the reason why it means more to them, the emotional reason why they are going to play the final. I don’t know.
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‘I could understand it, it belongs to them. That’s normal. Sport is like that. Records will be broken. ‘That belongs to us, we don’t want anyone else to do it’ – so it is normal, that feeling.
‘It’s completely understandable. But it’s a football game, who will be better will win.’
Meanwhile, United defender Raphael Varane has fired a warning to City striker Erling Haaland ahead of the showdown at Wembley.
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