Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola admits English football is changing him.

Some serious questions have been raised over whether ­Guardiola's methods and style of play will work in English football as well as they did at Spain's Barcelona and German giants Bayern Munich.

Guardiola said: “I'm not going to change England and I don't want to do that. Of course, it's going to change me.

“That's why I came here – to be changed. That is nice.

"When I do the same thing all my career, 15 or 20 years as a coach, it's boring. I would still be in Barcelona, my home and with these players I would be there.

“But every country has his own personality, his own way to play. And that is marvellous. That's why football is amazing. And, of course, I come here and I said a thousand million times, I am trying to adapt to English ­football in the way I believe you can do that.

“But it's 11 against 11 and the pitches here are smaller – or look like it, more than the other places. And the intensity and the aggressiveness and the permission for playing for more time with few fouls makes it a bit more difficult."