Reflecting on the clinical nature of that squad cull, the 55-year-old manager conceded that his uncompromising approach lacked professional fairness. Speaking in an interview withSky Sports, Guardiola said: “I want to confess something. I have regrets. When you take a lot of decisions, you make mistakes.
"There is one regret I have deep inside for many years: I don’t give the chance to Joe Hart to prove himself, how good a keeper he was, you know? And I should have done. All respect for Claudio [Bravo], respect for Ederson, when he came in he was important. But in that moment I should have said ‘OK Joe, let’s try to do it together and if it doesn’t work then OK, we change it’. But it happened.”