Here are your Manchester City evening headlines for Monday, August 1st. Pep Guardiola sends message to Kalvin Phillips over unused substitute role in Man City vs Liverpool Pep Guardiola believes summer signing Kalvin Phillips will have plenty of opportunities to contribute to Manchester City's on-field efforts this season, despite not featuring in the Community Shield on Saturday.
Phillips was an unused substitute as City lost 3-1 to Liverpool at Leicester's King Power Stadium, the second year in a row that the Blues have lost the showpiece fixture.
Jurgen Klopp's side took a first-half lead through Trent Alexander-Arnold's deflected effort, before Mohamed Salah and Darwin Nunez secured victory after Julian Alvarez's equaliser. Read more from Pep Guardiola here Man City may have to repeat Eric Garcia call in transfer window The year is 2020 and Barcelona have turned a Manchester City player's head without having the funds to secure a transfer for him.
Pep Guardiola had been purring over the combination of Eric Garcia and Aymeric Laporte at the heart of his defence the previous season, but the Catalan club came calling for a player who had caused such upset by swapping La Masia for Manchester a few years earlier.