Pep Guardiola voiced his frustration regarding Manchester City's upcoming fixtures in February, particularly with the Champions League draw against Real Madrid. City's challenging schedule entails facing multiple strong opponents, including Newcastle and Arsenal, within a short span. Guardiola noted the inequalities in fixture scheduling for teams competing in Europe, highlighting a consistent pattern laid out over his nine seasons at City. Despite these challenges, Guardiola acknowledged the team's successes within this busy schedule, accepting the reality but questioning if changes are forthcoming in the future.
The schedule is what it is, said Guardiola. In the Premier League everyone has to play everyone but what normally happens is we have tougher schedules for the [Premier League] teams in Europe.
Guardiola sarcastically noted, They are always so kind with the calendar, for many years it always happened that way.
I’m not complaining because we've had incredible success with this calendar. We accept it. We won the treble and the quadruple doing it like this.
When I was training at Barcelona I followed the Premier League because it's the most attractive league in the world and Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, Arsene Wenger made the same complaints.
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