‘They Pay Me Well’ – Guardiola Reveals His Motivation at Man City

Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has joked that one of the reasons he is still coaching after winning everything is because he is well paid.

Guardiola won the treble last year with City to add to his already enormous list of honours with the Premier League side as well as previous sides Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

Real Madrid stand in his way of more success in the Champions League as the 14-times winners host City in Tuesday’s quarter-final first leg.

“I like this business. They pay me well and I like it,” Guardiola told a press conference when asked what kept him motivated.

“I like playing here and I like playing away at Luton Town. When I stop feeling this then I will give up.”

City hammered Madrid 5-1 on aggregate in last year’s Champions League semi-finals but Guardiola does not envisage a similar scenario playing out on Tuesday.

“It’s last season. Two seasons ago we were out here in the last minutes. It looks like a classic between them and ourselves but I don’t have the feeling it is what it is.

“It’s the same managers but we have new players and they have new players so it will be a completely different game,” he said.