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Inside the mind of Pep Guardiola as he suffers sleepless nights and lives on soup during horror Man City run
PEP GUARDIOLA is really finding Manchester City’s current slump difficult to swallow.
The Catalan admitted a run like this can affect everything — from the amount of sleep he gets to his diet.
Recently, he has just been having soup for his evening meal as he is struggling to digest much else due to the nerves.
With his kids grown up and his wife Cristina back in Barcelona, Pep admits it can be a lonely business being a coach during a bad run.
He said this week: “You have people by your side but the pain of defeat only happens to one.
“It’s true your friends are there but when you go to sleep and you turn off the light, there’s no consolation possible.
“You have to swallow on it, spend a day or two and then come back.”
But by and large Guardiola says his frame of mind is not much different to how it was in the spring, when his team were crowned champions for a fourth straight year.
That is despite a run of seven defeats in the last ten matches — the same number as City suffered in the previous 105 games up until the end of April.
The decline in his all-conquering team has been sudden and alarming and left many people scratching their head.
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That includes Pep himself, who showed up for his press conference after the draw with Feyenoord last month with marks on his head and a cut on his nose.
At the time he put it down to his nails getting too long — although he explained this week there was another factor.
He said: “I have a skin problem. I have to take antihistamine for the last two or three years. The nails, yes, I did them on my nose. But the rest was that.”
Guardiola turns 54 next month and said in a recent interview he does not have the energy to take another club job after he leaves the Etihad.
The question some have been asking since is whether he has enough within him for the rebuilding job needed at City.
Some of the older players who have achieved so much for him — the likes of Kevin De Bruyne, Kyle Walker and Ilkay Gundogan — are reaching the end of the road.
And having achieved pretty much everything he set out to — and even more — with City, some wonder if he has the drive to go again.
Yet is easy to forget amid the chaos of the last seven weeks, that he signed a new two-year contract at the Etihad in the middle of it all.
It was Pep who indicated he was ready to talk — despite a run of four straight losses before then — and the deal was concluded in a couple of hours.
Given what has happened since and the problems he is facing, he may be asking himself whether he did the right thing.
Those around him say he has no regrets and is more determined than ever to turn the season around.
He accepted the challenge of staying on less than four weeks ago and there is no way he has changed his mind already.
His feeling all season has been that this was not the right time for him to hand over the keys to his successor and three months in, he was sure of it.
The imminent verdict on the 130 charges of financial wrong-doing was a factor, as he has previously said he would not desert the club he loves in their hour of need.
But the Club World Cup in the USA in the summer was also a consideration, as it will make the start of next season extremely difficult to navigate.
Guardiola felt he wanted to navigate City through this tricky period and he remains determined to do that.
In any case, Pep had predicted this would be a tough start to the season — partly due to strain of their recent success and the summer of international duty at Euro 2024 for most of his stars.
He did not quite expect it to be this tough, though, as the injuries have made the early months of the season even more challenging.
But he remains convinced that once his trusted players are back, he will be able to turn them back into a force.
Nothing that has happened since things started to unravel at the end of October has changed his mind.
He said: “I have learned with football, not to go against feelings, what you feel at that moment.
“If I am sad, I am sad but I know it will pass. That’s how I see it.”
A derby win over United on Sunday would help it to pass very quickly.
Push for ‘clean energy’ expected to cause rise in household bills, Ed Miliband hints
HOUSEHOLDS face paying higher energy bills before they drop in price in the drive for clean energy, Ed Miliband has hinted.
The Energy Secretary says consumers will see costs eventually fall but didn’t rule out costs rising in the short-term in the push to decarbonise the grid by 2030.
But the Tories say the “rush” to wean the electricity system off fossil fuels by the end of the decade will cause more hardship for Brits.
Proposals show the government and private firms will spend £40 billion each year as part of the eco move with a pledge to bring down bills by up to £300 in five years.
He said: “I can’t guarantee what’s going to happen to bills next month, because we’re in the grip of the international fossil fuel markets.”
The Cabinet Minister also said he will be able to bypass any local opposition to build onshore wind farms – with decisions previously left to councils.
A predicted rise in 2025 is set to mark the third consecutive hike for energy costs after Ofgem raised its price cap in October.
The energy regulator also confirmed last month the cost of yearly energy bills will rise by around £21 to £1,738 come January.
And now experts at Cornwall Insights forecast the average dual fuel bill for those not on a fixed deal will rise from £1,738 to £1,762 in April.
Analysts at the firm said “continued uncertainty” regarding the future of the Russia-Ukraine conflict could impact wholesale prices.
I’m A Celeb fans horrified as Jane Moore reveals blood-soaked bra after leaving jungle
I’M A Celebrity fans have shared their horror after Jane Moore revealed her bloodied bra after her jungle exit.
The Sun’s Jane left her daughter Grace holding her hands over her mouth as she held up her underwear once back at the hotel.
One of Jane’s bra cups was soaked with blood after she was attacked by a leech in the middle of the night.
The Loose Women star, 62, slept all night with the sucker on her chest and was left with a bleeding and weeping wound by the morning.
Jane revealed the traumatic encounter in I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here: Coming Out on Friday night.
Sitting in the hotel following her elimination from the jungle, the mum-of two said to Grace: “So did you hear about me getting a leech in my bra?”
The programme then shot to a throwback clip of Jane showing off her wound to her jungle campmates, saying: “It’s been sucking on me all night.”
Holding up her bra, Jane revealed to Grace: “This is what I woke up to in the morning.”
Grace gasped before saying: “Oh my God, that is grim!”
I’m A Celeb fans were also horrified by Jane’s revelation.
Writing on X, formerly known as Twitter, one viewer of the Coming Out show said: “OMG! The blood on her bra from that leech.”
Another added: “Things I didn’t need to see: the inside of Jane’s bra!”
Jane was first to leave the I’m A Celebrity camp following a public vote.
Writing for The Sun following her exit, the journalist mentioned her encounter with the leech while listing off everything she had been through.
“Finding a leech in my bra wasn’t on my bucket list, but thanks to I’m A Celebrity I can now tick it off,” she wrote.
“Along with drinking a cocktail of bull’s penis and fish eyes (as you do), skydiving from 10,000 feet over Australia’s Gold Coast, and being submerged in icy cold water underground with snakes, eels, mud crabs and various unimpressed reptiles.
“Well I did say I wanted an adventure.
“I also lost 10lb and gained new friends who, prior to finding themselves trapped in the jungle with me, had probably spent most of their lives trying to avoid journalists.”
