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Pep Guardiola hints at what Man City want from summer transfer window

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Pep Guardiola indicated Manchester City will be looking for a different type of player in the summer transfer window. The manager has spoken on a number of occasions this season about how the team is not built for transitions, and since the World Cup has preferred to stack his defence with centre-backs with four lining up for the recent wins over Crystal Palace and RB Leipzig.

Despite the success playing this way, Guardiola told reporters on Friday that the Blues would be in the market for the type of players they do not currently possess.

Full-back is an obvious place to look at, with Joao Cancelo having fallen out of favour and gone on loan to Bayern Munich and Benjamin Mendy's contract finally up in the summer.

The decision to keep Sergio Gomez with the first team as an option at left-back rather than send him on loan has not yielded much success. Also read: Kompany not ready to accept Guardiola prediction ahead of Man City return City's manager declared it "so important for the future" to add more variety to the squad after explaining why his team has had to adapt in defence. "We build up with a perfect three that suits perfectly for the players we have," he said. "If we needed to play with full-backs wide up and down for 90 minutes like 95 per cent of teams play in that way, we cannot do it.

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