Pep Guardiola again rubbished the suggestion that Manchester City may carry regrets over the summer departures of Oleksandr Zinchenko and Gabriel Jesus, insisting that their subsequent success at Arsenal is a source of motivation.
City sanctioned the sales of full-back Zinchenko and striker Jesus for a combined £75million, and both have played a key role in Arsenal's unexpected title charge. The Gunners, led by another former City figure in Mikel Arteta, are five points ahead of the Blues in the table with a game in hand at the halfway stage.
With City struggling for consistency, there have been external suggestions that a mistake was made in selling two important players to Arsenal, but Guardiola has always insisted that both wanted to leave and there are no regrets.
