Pep Guardiola urges Man City players to forget about quadruple hopes as Carabao Cup returns

Pep Guardiola is not thinking about turning last season's treble into a quadruple this season, and has urged his Manchester City players to forget about their potential trophy haul when they travel to Newcastle in the Carabao Cup.

City players including Phil Foden have made it clear there is a desire inside the dressing room to win all four trophies on offer this season - as well as adding the FIFA Club World Cup to their UEFA Super Cup.

However, Guardiola insisted that there is no benefit to thinking about a quadruple this early in the season. With three players injured and Rodri suspended, the manager has said he will have to rotate his starting XI at St James' Park rather than go strong from the start.

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So with that in mind, Guardiola shut down any thoughts of a quadruple so early in the campaign, telling his players that it would be a mistake to think so far ahead.

"Phil is so young, you understand with the time," he said. "It's nice to have the ambition but I say to the players that the ambition has to be the next game. In May if you're still in the competitions you can think about it but thinking about it now in late September can be a mistake."

Going further, Guardiola said that the challenge to keep standards up was not necessarily a mental one, more down to schedule issues on the back of an increasing amount of competitions.

"You cannot train. We have few people. We are used to it," he explained. "Previous seasons was the same. We have two more games because of the Club World Cup but the rest is the same.

"I don't think the problem is mentally, because