Nolito rejected Barça offer to play for Guardiola at Man City

“You don’t have success without being focused on details”.

“With Manchester City we are very advanced [in negotiations]”.

“He’s anxious to cut the number of injuries that City suffered last season”, explains Cooper.

And, after just a few weeks in charge, he is already building up a strong bond with his City players. “It’s something I spoke about with my family and my management”. There are two positions that I can play.

The approach appears to have been received warmly by the players.

“Everybody seems to be pressing their claims and the new systems of playing have been very interesting”.

Defender Gael Clichy, meanwhile, has spoken of Guardiola’s eagerness to protect his side against the threat of counter-attacks.

While he may eventually consider coaching Chile, he said club football was still what he wanted.

The Red Devils have been heavily linked to Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba, hoping to bring him back to Old Trafford after four years overseas in Italy, and reportedly are working out transfer details that could result in a record-setting sum.

“But I’m pretty sure that when we get back to Manchester they will have understood already what it is about”. Furthermore he is earning their respect by delivering training sessions that portray himself as being a football aesthete, who works in his own wonderfully unique way, which places an emphasis on craft and technique, rather than physicality and strength.

Guardiola has been clear about the squad’s diet.

Former Bayern Munich coach Guardiola will open his first season in England with a home clash against David Moyes’ Sunderland at the Etihad Stadium on August 13.

The 26-year-old added: “So far, he has been unbelievable with everyone”. “From day one, he knew everybody’s name”.

“He just wants us to trust him, he wants to trust us and I think it’s the right way to start a relationship”.

He has backed Guardiola to have the sort of transcending effect on English football that Arsène Wenger had in his early years at Arsenal, when the Frenchman won three Premier League titles and as many FA Cups.