Joe Hart, current Celtic goalkeeper, record the fact that led to his departure from Manchester City in the summer of 2016. As the English goalkeeper acknowledged, everything was settled after a two-hour conversation he had with Pep Guardiola, a talk that marked the end of his career as a Citizen player. Hart was a starter both at City, a club in which he had been a member for 12 years, and in the English team, but that did not prevent Guardiola from showing him the exit door.
“He was very knowledgeable about my background, very knowledgeable about what we did, how I played football, it was a two-hour conversation that ended with him saying, ‘I don’t see this working out,'” Hart explained on the podcast. Ring. “I told him ‘I don’t agree with you’ and he told me: ‘Being the first person to make a mistake, but what I see in you is not what I want from my goalkeeper’.
It was a two hour conversation that ended with him saying ‘I don’t see this working’
“I was like ‘that’s great to say that, but I’ve never been asked to do the kind of things that I know you like your goalkeepers to do, so I think it’s only fair that they give me the chance.’ you’ll be given the chance, but…’ As soon as there are buts at the end, you know there’s a decision.”
As soon as there are buts at the end, you know there is a decision
Joe Hart was ruled out by Guardiola. The goalkeeper was loaned successively to Torino and West Ham before ending his contract with Manchester City in 2018. “I wanted a chance to be trained by one of the best at it. Of course I didn’t know how to do it, why would I know how to do something I’d never been asked to do? I guess I was right, I couldn’t do it, I couldn’t let myself go.” on a team to play the way he wanted at the time,” Hart concluded.
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