Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola is urging Raheem Sterling to sign a new contract.

The delay in agreeing new terms has led to doubts over his future.

After victory at Arsenal, Guardiola urged Sterling and City to reach some middle ground: "I've not spoken to him about his contract. I'm not a sports director, not even a manager, I'm a trainer. I try to make a good team spirit in the locker room and win games.

"But we are delighted with him and would like him to stay. We'll do our effort to make him feel we count on him. And we count on him. We arrived after a difficult season and I told him I wanted to help him and would like him to be happy.

"But the agents may not have agreed and it may not happen. But he knows, and his agent knows, we like him and want him a lot."