Pep Guardiola answers question nobody asked on future as Man City given clear Jack Grealish benefit

Manchester City are back in Premier League action tomorrow as they travel to Molineux to face Wolves.

City will be hoping to leapfrog Liverpool with Arne Slot’s side not playing until 4.30pm. However, it won’t be an easy afternoon for the Blues after they were beaten by Wolves in this fixture last season.

That being said, Sunday’s opponents have had an awful start to the season and so City will be hopeful of securing all three points. Ahead of a big game for City, here’s a look at the latest headlines.

Pep on future

It has been an eventful two weeks since Pep Guardiola last faced questions from journalists.

News broke of an approach from the Football Association this summer over the vacant England job. A day later Thomas Tuchel was confirmed as Gareth Southgate’s successor, but not before it had sparked a national debate and body language experts had been ‘convinced’ that Guardiola had given the game away on an Italian chat show that he would be England manager.

The manager insists, as he did on that show, that he has not made his mind up on what to do after this season. And after telling reporters on Friday that the club have not asked him for a deadline on his future, he went further by insisting that if he had thought his indecision was affecting the club he would respond to that.

City given clear Grealish benefit

Stuart Pearce hailed Lee Carsley for getting ‘hurting’ Jack Grealish back to his best.

City ace Grealish, 29, netted the opener in England’s 3-1 Nations League win against Finland last weekend after being left out of Gareth Southgate’s Euro 2024 squad in the summer. The current City man was vocal in his disappointment with that decision but after an energetic all-action performance in Helsinki, looks to be relishing his role back on the international stage.

Interim head coach and Birmingham-born Carsley, who will be succeeded by Thomas Tuchel in January, brought Grealish back into the fold and has helped restore his confidence after a difficult few months. Carsley, 50, has come under criticism for his muddled messages with the media when it came to discussing his desire to succeed Southgate on a permanent basis.