Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has explained his thoughts on his biggest managerial rival.

Guardiola has now been in the Premier League since the start of the 2016-2017 season, with his team winning the last three league titles.

During that time, his side have played Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp a total of 29 times.

Asked about who was his biggest rival, the Spaniard commented to Sky Sports: “Jurgen Klopp.

“First, we faced [each other] a thousand million times, Dortmund and here.

"Second, because he beat me a lot, and that was always a challenge to do it again and again and again. I respect him a lot because of the way his teams always play, in Dortmund, Mainz before and now Liverpool. It's so attractive and so positive.

“We respect each other, at least from my point of view, I respect him a lot. Of course we have arguments and I don't like to be beaten by him, but he has been my biggest rival for the amount of times we play, how difficult it was and the pleasure when we beat them."