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Pep Guardiola has all the answers for critics but none for Julia Roberts snub

For Pep Guardiola, it can often feel that there are more questions than answers, whirling and pounding inside his head; the critics lining up their pot shots, his best efforts never enough.

Can the Manchester City manager seriously start with four centre-halves? What about Bernardo Silva on the right wing rather than Riyad Mahrez or Phil Foden? How can he blend a subtle possession game with the imperative to involve Erling Haaland as much as possible and spring him forward quickly? And why did Julia Roberts visit José Mourinho and Manchester United in November 2016 rather than him and City?

Guardiola still does not understand the last one, as he made clear after the 7-0 evisceration of RB Leipzig in the Champions League last 16 second leg on Tuesday night. Describing the Hollywood actor as one of his three idols in life – the others are Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods – he wondered why she had taken in United’s home game against West Ham, where she was given the full A-list treatment, a walk on the pitch and so on, and snubbed him.

“Julia Roberts came to Manchester and not in the 1990s when Sir Alex Ferguson won titles and titles and titles,” Guardiola said. “She came in a period when we were better than United. And she went to visit United. She didn’t come to see us.”

Guardiola had described himself as a “failure in the Champions League”. He could win it this season, he added, and he would still be cast as such in some quarters. And it would not make up for the disappointment of being ignored by Roberts. Maybe he was trying to say that there were more important things in life. Or was he just overthinking this? What was the ratio of sincerity to sarcasm? Because let’s face it, Guardiola does not think of himself as a

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