Pep Guardiola joked “everybody wants to fire me” after his Manchester City side were knocked out of the Champions League by Real Madrid .

Trailing 3-0 from the first leg, City were beaten 2-1 at the Etihad after Vinicius Junior scored twice and Bernardo Silva was sent off.

And asked if he would be satisfied to walk away from City having only won one Champions League, Guardiola laughed and said “Everybody wants to fire me right?

“One day I will come here and say bye bye guys. Still I am here, one more year of contract.

“You’re right, I have to win six Champions Leagues to be recognised. For sure.

“My first season here, are you going to win the Champions League? 100 points (in the Premier League). Are you going to win the Champions League? At the end, we won it. Now, why haven’t we won five or six Champions Leagues?

“We tried. We have been in other finals, semi-finals, unfortunately the last two editions of the Champions League we have been out but at this club, we tried to make the bar a little bit higher in terms of Champions League and if we don’t achieve that it’s not a good thing.

“I would love to have the feeling Madrid has. If you don’t win the Champions League, it’s a failure. That is pressure.

“Pep is a failure, he doesn’t win the Champions League, but it’s fine. Man City is not expectation, that is expectation. With the time, maybe we will get that.”

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Guardiola insists he is still optimistic about the future of his team, stressing that they need time to develop.

“The results have not been good except against Newcastle but I have the feeling that we are an extraordinary team,” he said.

“Many, many good things that I love to watch but still we are not complete. We are not aware in certain moments we have to be more clinical, still we are not.

“But my feeling is that it’s a question of time, that happened when I arrived here in my first season. A little bit of time. We changed a lot of things.”

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