Pep Guardiola gives Sergio Aguero and Benjamin Mendy Man City injury updates

straight to your inbox Ilkay Gundogan talked up Manchester City's attacking options without Sergio Aguero for the Champions League game with Real Madrid ... but was more reluctant to push his own case.

straight to your inbox Pep Guardiola raised hopes that Sergio Aguero will be fit to take on Real Madrid in the Champions League in two weeks. The Manchester City striker was expected to have to sit out the crunch game against the La Liga champions after suffering a knee injury that required surgery in Barcelona.

ManchesterFA Cup final.The Manchester City boss is too focussed on the job in hand, which is the semi-final against Arsenal, to consider the possibility of a piece of football history.The nearest City and Manchester United have come to a final was when they met in the 2011 semi-final at Wembley, when Yaya Toure’s goal sent them into the final, where they ended a 35-year trophy drought with victory over Stoke.But United face Chelsea on Sunday, the day after the Blues take on the Gunners.Sadly, if

straight to your inboxPep Guardiola says his future beyond 2021 is not important as he works to make sure the Manchester City chairman is no longer unhappy with him.City have celebrated as a club this week after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturned their two-year Champions League ban, allowing them to keep hold of their best players and continue to build as they have done over the last decade.

straight to your inboxPep Guardiola hailed Raheem Sterling’s maturity as a player after the Manchester City ace struck a superb hat-trick at Brighton. The Blues and England winger sparked a 5-0 win on the south coast and made himself firm favourite to be the first City player for nine years to score more goals in a season than the legendary Sergio Aguero.

straight to your inbox Rio Ferdinand claims that Man City boss Pep Guardiola has lost faith in defender John Stones. The Manchester United great was speaking ahead of City 's clash with Newcastle United when he analysed what has gone wrong for Stones.

straight to your inbox Pep Guardiola dismissed any talk of transfers until the end of the season when Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly and Barcelona forward Lionel Messi were mentioned in a press conference ahead of the Premier League match against Newcastle on Wednesday evening. Having finally been dethroned by Liverpool a fortnight ago, attention has turned to how Manchester City can improve to try and reclaim the Premier League title next season.

straight to your inbox Pep Guardiola says his Manchester City side must improve and take their chances if they want to win the FA Cup and Champions League. City couldn't convert any of their 26 shots at Southampton on Sunday and fell to a 1-0 defeat on the South Coast - their ninth of the season in the Premier League.

straight to your inboxPep Guardiola said he is not concerned by Southampton’s revelation that they targeted Ederson in Manchester City’s defeat yesterday.Saints boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said that his team had worked on forcing errors from the City defence – and then taking advantage of the fact that the Brazil goalkeeper is often in an advanced position, as he sweeps up behind the defence and also joins in the outfield build-up.That plan worked to perfection when Stuart Armstrong robbed Aleks

straight to your inboxPep Guardiola praised the unique ability of Gabriel Jesus to improve Manchester City as the spotlight focuses on the attack without Sergio Aguero.An injury to Aguero leaves the Blues without their club record scorer for at least the rest of their domestic campaign and potentially the whole season including the Champions League.

straight to your inboxJurgen Klopp insists he has no personal issues with Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola. The pair are currently in charge of two of the best sides in Premier League history and have seen their sides dominate English football in the past few years.

straight to your inbox Pep Guardiola is planning to face Real Madrid without Sergio Aguero but Manchester City remain hopeful that they will be able to call on the striker again this season. Aguero suffered a problem with his meniscus in the second game back after the restart and will miss the remainder of the Premier League and FA Cup campaign after undergoing surgery in Barcelona.

straight to your inbox Pep Guardiola said Phil Foden can be an “incredible player for the next ten years” at Manchester City. The Blues boss has been criticised for holding back the 20-year-old midfield prodigy, but Foden is now showing that approach was right by playing brilliantly at the highest level.

straight to your inboxPep Guardiola is unsure whether club legends Sergio Aguero and Fernandinho will stay beyond next summer.But the Manchester City boss is committed to a rebuild of the squad which will begin this summer.The departures of David Silva, Claudio Bravo and Leroy Sane this year, just 12 months after Vincent Kompany departed, has continued the break-up of the sensational squad which won successive Premier League titles.But by next summer Aguero – the biggest name of all – will be