Pep Guardiola: Man City boss raises prospect of strike but does not think it would happen



The Manchester City are due to host the Foxes.

The possibility of players going on strike was raised by the Manchester City manager, but he doesn't think it will happen.

Despite a rise in Covid-19 cases, the premier league clubs decided to fulfill their festive fixture on Monday.

A strike may be the only way to get the authorities to listen.

He asked if the players and the managers should be all together and make a strike, because they won't be able to solve the problem.

He said that he didn't think that things could come to a strike because they want to play. We want to continue because we love to do that and make people happy going to the stadium on the 26th, 27th, 29th, 31st and 1st.

I'm not saying there is a reason to strike.

Six of last weekend's 10 games were postponed after players and club staff returned a record 90 positive Covid-19 tests.

The two matches that were due to take place on December 26th have been postponed, and the manager of the other team said he was not sure why his match would still take place.

Henderson said in an interview that people can't appreciate how intense it is until they see it.

We want to be able to perform at the highest level every time we step on the pitch, and that's what football is all about. It is difficult to do that in this period.

"We will try to have conversations in the background and try to have some sort of influence going forward, but at the moment I don't feel the players get the respect they deserve in terms of having somebody being able to speak for them independently and having the power to say actually this isn

The schedule was "absurd", according to Lijnders, while Tuchel said he was having to take " huge risks" with his players' fitness.