Kick Guardiola demanded Friday he had no aim of marking Lionel Messi, saying he needs the Barcelona star to see out his profession at the Nou Camp.
Manchester City supervisor Guardiola has been connected more than once with a move for the authoritative world footballer of the year.
Hypothesis has strengthened on the grounds that Argentina worldwide Messi's agreement with Barcelona terminates toward the end of next season, and he has so far declined to concur an expansion.
Guardiola knows Messi well, having overseen him for a long time at the Nou Camp somewhere around 2008 and 2012, amid which time Barcelona won the Champions League twice and La Liga three times.
Be that as it may, the City chief trusts the forward would be ideally serviced by remaining at Barcelona, where he has been since the age of 13.
"I let you know more than once that Messi will remain at Barcelona and will complete his vocation at Barcelona," Guardiola said. "It's my desire. I wish that he goes from the earliest starting point to the end at Barcelona."
Reports a weekend ago recommended City were thinking about a monster £200 million ($249 million, 235 million euros) move for Messi, and an agreement of £500,000 a week.
Luis Enrique, the present Barcelona supervisor gave a sharp answer when that hypothesis was put to him before the Spanish monsters' Champions League win at Celtic on Wednesday. "I don't know –-I have no clue," he said.
– Kompany cover –
Guardiola is observing the wellness of Messi's Argentina partner Sergio Aguero as he readies his group for a Premier League visit to Burnley on Saturday.
Aguero endured a foot issue amid Wednesday's 1-1 Champions League draw against Borussia Moenchengladbach, however it is not thought to be not kidding.
Guardiola, in the interim, trusts he has enough cover in focal safeguard notwithstanding losing skipper Vincent Kompany for around six weeks with knee tendon harm.
Kompany endured the 35th harm of his City profession as he was compelled to fall off amid last Saturday's 2-1 triumph at Crystal Palace, raising the likelihood of Guardiola entering the move showcase in January to sign another shield.
Guardiola, however, can play midfielder Fernandinho or full-back Bacary Sagna in focal barrier if fundamental, and even has the alternative to move Yaya Toure there.
Toure, reviewed to the City group to face Palace for his first appearance since August subsequent to settling a debate with the administrator, broadly played as a crisis focus back for Guardiola in the 2009 Champions League last, when Barcelona beat Manchester United 2-0 in Rome.
Guardiola said: "Yaya can play in many positions however I think we have different choices to play as focal shields.
"What happened with Yaya at Barcelona happened once in the last of the Champions League against Manchester United on the grounds that we had a great deal of issues there. We didn't have players – and he played stunning.
"Presently Yaya will play in more hostile terms and can choose the last terms, to score objectives, in our development in the last third of the pitch.
"We have different choices. Fernandinho can play there, Sagna can play there. At Crystal Palace, following one and a half months harmed, Bacary played the main amusement and he played focal shield for a long time. He was magnificent. So we have different alternatives to take care of that issue."
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