Guardiola’s Words Affected My Confidence – Phillips
West Ham Midfielder, Kalvin Phillips says he was demoralized when Pep Guardiola referred to him as being overweight when he joined the citizens.
Phillips is now with West Ham United on loan from the Premier League champions as he was unable to break into City’s team.
Giving an account narrated by sources, the England International opined that the manager could have passed his message in a very polite manner instead of his choice of approach.
He said “When Pep came out and said I was overweight, he was right to do so, but there are different ways to go about it”.
“I did not disagree but obviously it took a big knock on my confidence”.
“My family were not happy about it, either. Especially my mum”.
“People can say overweight like it’s 10kg. I was probably 1.5kg over my weight target…”.
The midfielder although confirmed moving on from the words of his manager who would later loan him to London club West Ham United
