Joe Hart can leave Manchester City if he hands Pep Guardiola a transfer request
Spanish boss has dropped the England No1 sparking interest from Everton and Sevilla
PEP GUARDIOLA has told Joe Hart ‘leave if you want to, but I can make you better’.
England’s number one goalkeeper has been axed from the Manchester City first team for the first two games.
Guardiola prefers Willy Caballero’s distribution skills from the back and is actively chasing Barcelona’s Claudio Bravo to be his new number one.
It looks bleak for Hart and asked if he could leave Guardiola said:
“Of course I want happiness for the players I don’t want players who don’t want to stay. I don’t want players who are unhappy.
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“If you want to stay then stay but if a player wants to leave because they prefer to play every game – and I’m not just talking about Joe – I want to play with players who want to stay.”
Guardiola said he would let him leave on loan with Everton waiting in the wings and Sevilla.
But the new City boss has offered the two-time City title winner a lifeline if he wants to stay.
He said: “I said to him from the first moment that if he stays he is going to improve.
“He has to understand what we want from our goalkeeper.
“I have had a lot of players who have had problems in the beginning but than after two or three months or a year they have become one of best players in that position.
“I had Eric Abidal who was left back at Barcelona and he had problems in the beginning.
“By the end he was the best left centre back in Europe.”
Guardiola says Hart needs to understand that while stopping goals in the number one priority the second most important thing is how he delivers it from the back.
He said: “The first thing is to save after that after he has to play out the ball and help us create a good build up.
“In the future he can do that.
“Willy right now in that situation is better.”
Guardiola was equally ruthless when asked about midfielder Yaya Toure who he fell out with at Barcelona and is yet to use.
He hinted he was lazy, saying: "When he increases his intensity without the ball, he will be involved."