{"id":341121,"date":"2025-08-13T12:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341121\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:22:19","slug":"bernardo-silva-sends-liverpool-warning-and-breaks-silence-on-guard-of-honour-snub-a-bad-loser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341121\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernardo Silva sends Liverpool warning and breaks silence on guard of honour snub – ‘A bad loser’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernardo Silva has explained why he snubbed Liverpool during a guard of honour as he opened up on Man City’s struggles last season\"ORLANDO,<\/p>\n

Bernardo Silva has fired a title warning to Liverpool as he explained why he infamously refused to applaud the Reds during a guard of honour. The Portuguese, who has been appointed as the new Man City captain, has won six Premier League<\/a> titles since moving to the Etihad in 2017.<\/p>\n

But last season marked the second time he has missed out on winning the English top-flight as Pep Guardiola\u2019s side finished third – 13 points behind Arne Slot<\/a>\u2019s side.<\/p>\n

Silva admits the City squad felt guilty during their disappointing campaign, admitting they gave up too easily. But the 31-year-old has seen enough this summer to be confident that Guardiola\u2019s men can challenge for the title again this season.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of guilt among the players, in the manager, in everyone for not doing better last season,\u201d Silva admitted. \u201cA team with our experience, with our quality, even with [the injuries we had], we cannot go down as easily as we did.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should have done better to overcome this situation. About competing for the title, we didn\u2019t even give it a try.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think emotional-wise we\u2019re definitely back. In terms of being hungry again, we\u2019re back. This is all very beautiful, but at the end of the day the quality on the pitch will make a difference and show if we\u2019re prepared to perform or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Silva previously missed out on the Premier League title with City in the 2019\/20 season as they finished second – 18 points behind champions Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jurgen Klopp<\/a>\u2019s side clinched the title with seven games still to play that year, with a trip to Man City their first outing as champions.<\/p>\n

While Guardiola\u2019s squad welcomed the Reds out to a customary guard of honour, Silva infamously refused to clap the Liverpool squad.<\/p>\n

And he has now admitted that he is a bad loser as he explained his controversial decision to snub Klopp\u2019s side.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m a bad loser, yeah,\u201d Silva told The Times<\/a>. \u201cI hate losing. I played 12 years at Benfica and they taught us not to be happy if you lose.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my opinion, it\u2019s kind of a hypocrisy [the guard of honour]. It\u2019s not a tradition we have in Portugal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they want to do it, they can do it, but I wasn\u2019t going to clap Liverpool because that\u2019s not how I celebrate defeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I win a title, I don\u2019t need anyone else to clap for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bernardo Silva has explained why he snubbed Liverpool during a guard of honour as he opened up on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[10234,748,393,4884,179,763,1036,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-341121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-barclays-premier-league","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-liverpool-fc","14":"tag-manchester-city-fc","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115021436965477818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}