Saturday, 19 November 2016

Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola enjoys working with John Stones

• ‘He realises his mistakes, he knows he can get better,’ says City manager
• ‘Gerard Piqué was quite similar when he came to Manchester United’

Pep Guardiola believes John Stones has similar attributes to Gerard Piqué at the same age and rejects suggestions that he is too soft with the Manchester City defender.

The former England manager Glenn Hoddle has accused Guardiola of not pushing the player signed from Everton in the summer for £47.5m. “I agree with him, I’m so nice with John. So nice,” the City manager countered. “I think I’ll keep going with that. With John, you cannot forget, he’s only 22 years old.

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