Pep Guardiola says he will try to make his half-time team talks shorter after Manchester City were fined £2million for late kick-offs by the Premier League.
City were slapped with the sanction for 22 separate violations over the last two seasons. That included them being nearly three minutes late restarting the second half of their last game of the campaign against West Ham when they were crowned champions at the Etihad Stadium. Guardiola was asked about the fine ahead of facing Chelsea in a friendly in Colombus, Ohio. He said: ‘I just read it in the news. I would try to do my speeches at half-time shorter.’ Speaking about his former assistant Enzo Maresca now being in charge of Chelsea, Guardiola said: ‘I'm really pleased for him. We spent a special year together. But more than when he was in the second team together, he is an incredible, lovely person. And his family, too. 'He did a really good job, unbelievable, at Leicester, promotion to the Premier League and now he is in one of the top five, six teams in England. 'And I wish him the best because he deserves it. Nice people deserve the best. ‘To be a manager is believing s