Pep Guardiola has a brand new appreciation for Manchester Metropolis’s dominance amid their present struggles and claimed he would stroll away if he felt he had misplaced the group.

Metropolis host Manchester United within the derby on the Etihad on Sunday within the unfamiliar place of getting misplaced seven of their final 10 video games in all competitions.

Guardiola ended hypothesis about his future by signing a brand new two-year contract three weeks in the past however that certainty has to date not helped Metropolis arrest their slide.

Requested if he had any regrets, the Spaniard gave an emphatic response, saying: “Completely not. I’d remorse leaving now. I couldn’t sleep. They may sack me. That might occur. However leaving now? No likelihood.

“Once I really feel it’s time to go away, I’ll go away. If I’m shedding and shedding and shedding one month extra, I’ll say, ‘guys, it has to return another person to repair these sort of issues’, as a result of it can’t be everlasting.

“There’s one factor once I would say, ‘Pep, you need to give it some thought’, is once I lose the group, once I really feel they don’t run. They don’t observe me.

“In that second, not one minute would we be right here. However greater than ever I’m there. There’s little doubt about that.”

The problem in entrance of Guardiola now’s an unfamiliar one and, though it’s actually not what he would have needed, it has given him trigger to replicate somewhat on the trophy-laden seasons which have preceded it.

He hopes there will probably be extra to return, however mentioned: “The best achievement has already been completed. We’ve been the most effective.

“However now it’s made me realise how troublesome it was what we’ve got completed and, once we come again, in fact it is going to be, wow, we is not going to neglect these moments. As a result of we wish it and we do it and we aren’t ready.”

Guardiola’s largest present headache is in defence, the place accidents to John Stones, Manuel Akanji and Nathan Ake and Rico Lewis’ suspension have left him with solely Ruben Dias, Kyle Walker and Josko Gvardiol obtainable.

He insists he has no downside shouldering the duty, including: “That’s why I’m nicely paid. If I don’t need what occurred, all of the feedback after the sport, I’ve to go and do one other job.

“I didn’t anticipate that the nice moments that occurred up to now give me time within the dangerous moments. It by no means occurred with any supervisor in historical past. I’m calm as a result of I do know the explanation why once we have been successful, and I do know the explanation why we’re shedding.

“It’s not sufficient, I do know that. The gamers aren’t silly. They tasted the very best stage in consistency and it didn’t matter what occurred we discovered a solution to win the video games. Now we don’t have the way in which to win the video games.

“After all we’ve got to enhance. We don’t have a defence for the outcomes. But it surely’s soccer, it’s life.

“You inform me a month in the past once we have been prime of the league, unbeaten, the one English group unbeaten, you’re going to lose the subsequent (5). Are you loopy? It’s not going to occur. It’s occurred, and possibly we will lose extra.”