Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has defended the club's previous Premier League title success amid the current investigation.
The Manchester outfit have been charged with 1-1 breaches of competition rules and could face sever punishment, including expulsion for the league, if they are found guilty.
There has been talk that City should also give up the Premier League titles between 2009 and 2018, but Guardiola insist those memories belong to them.
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“Those moments belong to us. They absolutely belong to us, regardless of the sentence they belong to us," Guardiola said, as per the Guardian.
“The goal from Sergio Agüero [in 2012], when Balotelli slipped. I don’t know if we are responsible for Steven Gerrard slipping at Anfield. Was that our fault? I have respect for Steven Gerrard – but that moment belongs to us.
“The moments that we lived these years together, the Premier League will decide … but I know what we won and the way we won it. I know the effort we put in. If something happened in 2009 or 2010 it is not going to change one second.”
Guardiola once again backed the owners and chairman of the club and reiterated his desire to stay in Manchester.
“What I can say is I am proud of my owners, of my chairman, and the relationship we have had, this time together,” he added.
“I have relied on them [and what they told me] a lot in the past, now you can’t imagine.
“If they want me here I will be here. The results are not good, they will put me out because it is a business where you have to win. But if they want me I will not let them down and my players, too. I want to convince them that what we have done, we have done and they won’t remove it.”
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