Pep Guardiola leapt to the defence of his bosses at Manchester City despite the club missing out on Harry Kane and Cristiano Ronaldo in the transfer window.
And signfiicantly the City manager credited them for signing Ferran Torres who scored twice in a 5-0 win against Arsenal to underline his credentials as the team’s main centre-forward this season.
Guardiola acted quickly to absolve chief executive Ferran Soriano and chief executive Txiki Begiristain from blame even though they were unable to lure Kane from Tottenham and Ronaldo chose to join Manchester United.