Pep Guardiola on Gabriel Jesus: "I think he can adapt perfectly in that way, especially because he doesn’t play wide. He can play a bit wider, then inside. Arsenal play with Aubameyang. Gabriel can play perfectly in that position and he’s done really well there."
Pep Guardiola on adapting to different tactics: "Sometimes we need more specific wingers in that position and it depends on the quality of our full backs as well. To attack a defence like the last games, Sheffield Wednesday and United, they defend five at the back."
"You have to make the pitch wide. If you don’t then it’s more difficult."
Mikel Arteta on Pep Guardiola: “Do I ask him about managerial issues? I have all his backing to ask him any question, I know he’ll always answer as well because he knows me really well, how I feel and how I think. It’s a good thing for me."
Guardiola on Kevin De Bruyne: “Of course, Real Madrid and Newcastle are the more important targets. But to arrive at them the player has to play the days before and get the rhythm of the team, like we maintained in the last game, so it continues in that way."“You cannot go from 0 to 10 in one game. Definitely [I’d prefer him to play before Madrid].”
Guardiola on what he told Mikel Arteta before taking the Arsenal job: "It happened in the past with my colleagues and my assistants. I never said, say or will say what they have to do. They have ambition, professional ways, families and everything.""So what I said to Mikel is: ‘Do you want to do it, do you feel it? Then you have to do it.’ He loves Arsenal, he was there many years."
Guardiola on Arteta's 'inside knowledge': “He has more info about us than I have on the Arsenal team. That’s normal. We worked a huge amount of hours together and thoughts and ideas, solving problems before, during and after the game."
“Especially he knows the individual quality of the players. He knows exactly the way we love this game and the quality of the players. In those terms, I can imagine a little bit what he thinks."