Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has explained shaking up his title winning squad this summer.

Four newcomers have arrived to bolster the squad in the exciting shape of Erling Haaland, Julian Alvarez, Kalvin Phillips and Stefan Ortega Moreno.

Meanwhile, we have bid farewell to Fernandinho, Raheem Sterling, Gabriel Jesus and Oleks Zinchenko - four of the players who helped bring so much success to the Club over the past five years.

“It is a good question. Always I thought after five or six years together we need to change - changing the manager is an option, or changing a few players. Always," Guardiola asserted.

“But at the same time I can tell you, for the personalities they have - Gabriel, Raheem, Oleks, Fernandinho - would they not be hungry if they stayed with us? Absolutely not. I know them.

“They would be the same guys that we know them.

“But, at the same time, sometimes it's good to change to refresh everyone - the new players, the old players.

“And its normal the new players bring in new energy, new desires.

“But I don't know [what's going to happen].

“You have to take decisions always. That's why we are paid, and always the intention is to get better.

“If this transfer window didn't happen the way it has happened and these four players were still here, I think we would be the same team with the same desire to do well.

“But it has happened and we are going to adapt the new ones and desire all the best for the guys that have left as all of them deserve it."

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