Guardiola: "Can't tell Barcelona to forget about Bernardo Silva"

After the charity match at Camp Nou which ended 3:3, the Manchester City coach admitted: "I don't want an unhappy player on the squad. I hope he stays."

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25/08/2022

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The leagues have already started, but Barcelona and Manchester City nevertheless devoted precious time to a particularly important cause.

The two luxury clubs met last night (Wednesday) at the Camp Nou stadium for a charity match, all the proceeds of which were donated to ALS research, when the organizer of the meeting is the former assistant coach of Barcelona and Pep Guardiola, Juan Carlos Onsua, who was diagnosed with the disease over two years ago.

The charity match was attended by 91,062 spectators, who got to see a volatile game in which City took the first lead from a goal by Julián Álvares, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang equalized in perhaps his last game for the team before a move to Chelsea, swingers Frankie de Jong and Memphis Depay also scored, but in between Cole Palmer equalized for 2:2 and the other tie for the English champions was achieved in the 99th minute, when Erling Holland was fouled in the box and Riyad Mahrez with a penalty made it 3:3.

Mahrez makes it 3:3 in the 99th minute.

A lofty goal for the meeting (Photo: Reuters)

One of the players involved in the game is the Portuguese Bernardo Silva, who for the second summer in a row is reported to be doing everything he can to join Barcelona.

The leaders of the Blaugrana promised him that they would try to join him, according to the publications, but in the meantime it seems that they are unable to meet City's demands in order to release him.

After the game, both coaches addressed this.

First Pep Guardiola said: "First of all I want to say that Barcelona impressed me a lot. They have a great squad with great abilities and of course Xavi is doing a very good job. As for Bernardo, I can't tell Barcelona to forget about him - we really want him here, but I also don't want to have players who are not satisfied with us. Barcelona loves him and the teams have to come to an agreement first, but as far as I'm concerned, I really want him in Manchester City."

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Bernardo Silva (Photo: GettyImages, Pedro Salado/Quality Sport Images)

Xavi was also asked about Bernardo and replied: "Who wouldn't want him? And Kevin de Brauna, Arling Holland and others...Bernardo is a very important player in Manchester City's squad, a player who makes a difference and of course I love him because There aren't many players like him, but it all depends on Manchester City."

Let's recall that in the meantime Barcelona is unable to register the stopper Jules Conde and at the same time it is trying to strengthen the defenders on the right and left wings, an issue that may be resolved after the sale of Aubameyang to Chelsea in the coming days.

In any case, it seems that in order to add Bernardo Silva - which is expected to cost around 60 million euros at the very least - it will have to sell additional players, if at all it will be able to raise the sums required for his purchase and registration in the roster.

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