Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has again heaped praise on his front office.

Guardiola will enter his fourth season as City manager in August - the number of years he spent at Barca before coaching Bayern Munich for three.

He told Ara: “Here, in Manchester, I have Txiki (Begiristain, City's director of football], who is the most important person of my career because he trusted me when I was no one.

"I have Ferran [Soriano, City's CEO) also, and you sometimes ask yourself, 'how can he be that cold?' But, at the same time, he manages with a brutal precision.

"When I win I am good, when I lose I am bad. That is the same everywhere, but in this club we are three or four people deciding in the sporting area, there isn't the noise of 18 board members.

“I have everything I desire to do my job. I won't go back to Barcelona or Germany. Where can I have facilities that good to play in such a beautiful league like the Premier League?"