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'You would kill me!' - Pep Guardiola cries double standards over Chelsea and Man City spending
18.08.2023 - 21:47 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Pep Guardiola believes Manchester City would be under intense scrutiny from the media had they spent as much as Chelsea have in the last two years, but has no problem with the London club's transfer approach as long as they are satisfying financial rules.
City bought Mateo Kovacic for £25m and Josko Gvardiol for £77.5m, while they recouped £30m for Riyad Mahrez and have raised over £50m from the academy this summer. Aymeric Laporte is one of a few players who could still leave.
Chelsea, meanwhile, have spent over £300m this summer, raising around £200m from sales, to take their gross spending under owner Todd Boehly to nearly £1bn in three transfer windows.
Asked if he has found the transfer market more difficult this year, Guardiola replied unprompted: "For Chelsea it is easier than us, for sure!
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"I couldn't sit here if we spent what Chelsea spent in the last two transfer windows - you would kill me. You will kill me, that is for sure. We'd be under scrutiny like you couldn't imagine."
Pressed on whether Chelsea's spending bothered or surprised him, Guardiola insisted that he was not criticising them, but reiterated that their lack of scrutiny is opposite to the questions thrown at City over the years for their spending habits.
"Absolutely not, they can do what they want," he said. "I don't criticise Chelsea for one second. I’m saying, if we do it, we are dead, all around the world. They can do whatever they want.
"I have admiration for Todd Boehly. I met him. I'm glad they did it, of course they can do it. They can do whatever they want. If they want to spend, I don’t know, £900 million since he arrived, 900 more, 900
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