Get the biggest City stories, analysis and transfer updates delivered straight to your inbox Pep Guardiola helped to kill the European Super League after describing it as being "not sport".
But the Manchester City boss had other objections to the proposed European Super League, which was killed tonight after the Blues and Chelsea led a mass pull-out of "founder members".
Guardiola had made it plain that any competition that increases the number of matches in a season, when he has argued vehemently that the welfare of players has to be paramount, is not good.
The ESL plan, announced on Sunday night, would have meant the English clubs involved pulling out of the League Cup - which would probably mean the death of that 61-year-old competition.
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