{"id":17147,"date":"2025-12-21T23:51:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/manchester-city-manager-guardiola-players-aware-of-weight-checks-ahead-of-nottingham-forest\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:51:30","slug":"manchester-city-manager-guardiola-players-aware-of-weight-checks-ahead-of-nottingham-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/manchester-city-manager-guardiola-players-aware-of-weight-checks-ahead-of-nottingham-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City manager Guardiola: Players aware of weight checks ahead of Nottingham Forest."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_db95b2f756563643\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">Spanish coach Pep Guardiola has been known for seasons as a strict manager regarding physical fitness levels, having suspended some of his squad members from first-team training in 2016 until they reached specific weight targets.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">Former midfielder Ga\u00ebl Clichy revealed that Guardiola ordered his players to stay away from pizza, certain juices, and &#8220;heavy meals&#8221; in general.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Guardiola apologized to Kalvin Phillips after describing the Manchester City midfielder as &#8220;overweight&#8221; following his return from the 2022 World Cup finals in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Manchester City currently trails Premier League leaders Arsenal by two points, after the latter defeated Everton 1-0 last Saturday. The team faces Forest before an away match at Sunderland during the Christmas period.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">Guardiola announced that he has no issues regarding the team&#8217;s physical fitness or physical training, but they simply &#8220;must play better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">&#8220;The players asked me to give tomorrow&#8217;s [Sunday&#8217;s] training session a break, and I said yes, because they didn&#8217;t perform well enough,&#8221; Guardiola said.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">&#8220;So, Sunday will be a break, except for the players who didn&#8217;t participate who will train. After three days off, they will have two days to prepare to face Nottingham Forest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">Guardiola added that it is very important for players to spend time with their families during the Christmas celebrations.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8\">&#8220;I have learned in England since my arrival that for every day you can give them off, you give it to them,&#8221; Guardiola noted.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"9\">&#8220;The situation is not very good and the players must forget. By the moment of the match, their legs will be fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>United News Network \u2013 UNN Arabic<\/p>\n<p>An independent media platform providing reliable news and objective analysis, seeking to promote peace and cultural dialogue around the world to convey the truth and build bridges of understanding between peoples.<\/p>\n<p>For more news, you can visit our homepage:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Z0U6RAdaiA\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/\">Home<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Home&#8221; &#8212; \u0634\u0628\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062a\u062d\u062f\u0629 \u2013 UNN \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629\" src=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/embed\/#?secret=oSLAVZhuHn#?secret=Z0U6RAdaiA\" data-secret=\"Z0U6RAdaiA\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish coach Pep Guardiola has been known for seasons as a strict manager regarding physical fitness levels, having suspended some of his squad members from first-team training in 2016 until they reached specific weight targets. Former midfielder Ga\u00ebl Clichy revealed that Guardiola ordered his players to stay away from pizza, certain juices, and &#8220;heavy meals&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}