When you sign one of the best young strikers in the world with a great future, questions about him will be asked on a regular basis, and Pep Guardiola is well aware of that. In fact, the Manchester City coach is used to that, since he coached Lionel Messi in Barcelona and Robert Lewandowski in Bayern.🗣 “One week ago when he missed the chance, he was a failure. Everybody laughed at him and now he is Thierry Henry and Ronaldo.”Pep Guardiola laughs off the comparisons to Erling Haaland after one game pic.twitter.com/6vwv4mzjKF— Football Daily (@footballdaily) August 7, 2022 This season the Citizens signed promising Erling Haaland and ahead of every game, British journalists have something to ask Pep. First, it was about Haaland’s first official game, a 3-1 defeat in the Community Shield, when he failed to score against Liverpool, and then it was about Haaland’s brace against West Ham. And now, ahead of weak Bournemouth, the journalists wanted to know how young Norwegian is keeping up with the pressure of playing (and scoring) in the Premier League, and ‘provoked’ Pep to make a joke.“I am not sleeping with him! I’m not at home with him so I don’t know how he handles it. But what I see in the training session is that he was calm after Liverpool and West Ham. The moment he doesn’t score goals they are going to say maybe he’s not good. It looks like the end of the world will happen. In the bad situations everything is going bad. But you have to be calm in the bad moments and the best teams stay positive. He is a top striker and if you put the names of the biggest strikers of all time at that age – how many goals – he’s the greatest. But he’s still at a young age. I will encourage him to be a better player, a better finisher and he has to think, ‘Today I will be better than yesterday’” said Pep.United didn’t listen to Ranginck’s advices, but City didAlthough the transfer window is not yet finished, if you ask Guardiola, left-back Sergio Gomez from Anderlecht will be the latest and the last addition to his squad. Former Barcelona man came to the frame after Citizens refused to pay ransom for Marc Cucurella and was looked at as a development player but now will join the first team squad.“The first action from the club was to sign him and send him on loan, but the moment we couldn’t go through with Cucurella because the club decided we wouldn’t pay this amount of money I said, ‘OK, think again about the idea to loan Sergio. I’m very very pleased with the team. It’s not big in terms of numbers, but there is incredible versatility and they all have huge quality. If nobody moves, I think nobody’s coming in” said the Spaniard.Five of Mendy’s teammates, former and current, ‘sucked’ into the rape trialsAnd when speaking about leaving, one big name is currently being mentioned heavily in the press – Bernardo Silva. One of Guardiola’s favourite players is being mentioned together with Barcelona and even the Spaniard doesn’t know what will happen.“One hundred and 10 per cent I want him to stay. I love him. I go weak when I talk about him! He is a special person. I don’t know what is going to happen, but he knows how much we like him and want him and love him” said Guardiola.PREMIER LEAGUE – MATCHDAY 2Saturday14.30: (1.85) Aston Villa (3.50) Everton (5.00)17.00: (1.61) Arsenal (4.30) Leicester (6.25)17.00: (2.50) Brighton (3.15) Newcastle (3.20)17.00: (1.10) Man.City (13.0) Bournemouth (25.0)17.00: (2.30) Southampton (3.50) Leeds (3.25)17.00: (2.40) Wolverhampton (3.20) Fulham (3.35)19.30: (4.00) Brentford (3.60) Man.Utd. (2.06)Sunday16.00: (4.40) Nott.Forest (3.50) West Ham (1.95)Sun 17:30: (2.40) Chelsea (3.35) Tottenham (3.20)Monday22.00: (1.20) Liverpool (7.75) Crystal Palace (16.0)***odds are subject to change