Club World Cup Trophy Won't Make Up For Last Season - Guardiola

Winning nan Club World Cup won't make amends for Manchester City's disappointment of past season, says head Pep Guardiola.

City grounded to triumph a awesome trophy for nan first clip successful 8 years but claimed nan Community Shield astatine nan opening of nan campaign.

City vanished 3rd successful nan Premier League, grounded to scope nan past 16 successful nan Champions League and were stunned successful nan FA Cup last by Crystal Palace.

Along pinch Chelsea, City are 1 of 2 English sides presently competing astatine nan revamped Club World Cup successful nan United States.

They began Group G pinch triumph complete Moroccan broadside Wydad AC and different 3 points against UAE nine Al-Ain successful Atlanta connected Sunday will seal progression to nan past 16.

"I said galore times, nan play was not good," said Guardiola. "When you decorativeness 3rd successful nan Premier League to suffice for nan Champions League, it intends 70 teams were worse than us.

"We played nan FA Cup last successful an incredibly precocious level against a really bully team. The disappointment was nan Champions League, we did not do really good. It was reliable to grip it.

"Winning this title is not going to alteration that but my mindset astatine nan infinitesimal is not astir winning nan competition. We tin widen our clip here, being present longer. For nan South American teams, nan title whitethorn beryllium nan maximum. For European teams, it is [just] a World Cup."

Al-Ain head Vladimir Ivic, formerly of Watford said: "When you play against nan champion ones, you want to beryllium nan champion of yourself.

"I americium judge my players will springiness nan maximum, trying from nan first until nan last, to show themselves nan champion measurement against nan champion one. We person to judge successful ourselves and my team."

Guardiola won this title successful its erstwhile guise pinch Barcelona and led City to occurrence by thrashing Fluminese 4-0 successful Saudi Arabia 2 years ago.

Questions person been raised astir really earnestly European sides rank this tournament, though teams from nan continent tin cod up to £97m if they spell each nan way.

Meanwhile, players and supporters from elsewhere specified arsenic South America person shown their passion for nan tournament, filling stadiums pinch thousands of fans and adding a chopped colour and atmosphere.

"I was fortunate to play arsenic a head successful this title 4 times and we won 4 times," said nan Spaniard.

"What would hap successful Brazil is they would person a carnival for 1 week, dancing and celebrating, but it is taste for nan continent and countries.

"Now we are here, I want to do nan best, I want to bask nan infinitesimal present because you are present 1 clip each 4 years and I want to do good and I want to get successful nan second stages."

Guardiola has reiterated a request for a smaller squad heading into nan caller season, having joked astatine nan extremity of nan past run he would "quit" unless nan playing unit was cut.

City person a 27-man touring statement for nan Club World Cup; out-of-favour Jack Grealish, Kyle Walker and Kalvin Phillips person been near astatine home, James McAtee was not selected and Mateo Kovacic is injured.

Meanwhile, German midfielder Ilkay Gundogan has been linked pinch a move to Turkish champions Galatasaray.

"We person - correct now - a agelong squad, excessively galore players, truthful we cannot spell pinch 26, 27 players this play because location would beryllium much [not] playing and measurement by measurement possibly a fewer players are going to move. But correct now, Ilkay is perfectly portion of my mind and nan team.

"I would emotion to person nan players that we person now each season. I would emotion it. I don't person immoderate complaints astir nan players, really they behave."

He added: "The problem is they will beryllium unhappy during nan season. They will beryllium sad, they will beryllium disappointed. I don't want that. For maine it's not a problem.

"I person much [players to select] and I don't [want] six, 7 players, if nary injuries, being astatine home. So I do it that way. I do that for them.

"So that's why we person to spot what happens. We still person a agelong time, I would say, until nan transportation model will beryllium closed."