Guardiola managed to guide City to Champions League qualification last term, though at one stage they had won just once in 13 Premier League games.
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"I'm really pleased to sit here after a bad season," he told TNT Sports.
"If I didn't have my chairman and sporting director like I have, I would have been sacked, definitely. Because the results were really, really poor.
"It's a new season, we've had six or seven signings between the transfer window in December and now. Football is this: win or lose, what's the next chapter? The next chapter is this season and nobody knows what's going to happen. We have, I think, the desire to do well."