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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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David McDonnell

Pep Guardiola calls for radical football change after players forced to "breaking point"

Manchester City's Treble-winning stars have arrived back on home soil with Pep Guardiola pointing the finger at UEFA and FIFA for pushing his players to breaking point.

Guardiola's City side finished a gruelling season with victory over Inter Milan in Istanbul to clinch an historic Treble. The 1-0 win in the Ataturk Stadium was City's 61st game of the season, with most of Guardiola's stars also involved in the World Cup in Qatar in the middle of the campaign.

Victory for City came at a price – with midfielder Kevin De Bruyne forced off in the first-half with a hamstring injury. De Bruyne had been playing through the pain barrier with the injury for the last eight weeks and now faces up to three months on the sidelines.

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