{"id":590965,"date":"2025-11-24T15:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/590965\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:06:22","slug":"pep-guardiolas-eight-word-reply-hints-at-claudio-echeverri-frustration-as-man-city-consider-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/590965\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola’s eight word reply hints at Claudio Echeverri frustration as Man City consider options"},"content":{"rendered":"

Claudio Echeverri is on loan at Bayer Leverkusen from Manchester City this season but he is struggling for game time with the Bundesliga side.\"ClaudioClaudio Echeverri has struggled for minutes during a loan spell at Bayer Leverkusen<\/p>\n

Pep Guardiola suggested Claudio Echeverri’s agent holds the key to whether Manchester City<\/a> recall the Argentine from a disappointing loan spell at Bayer Leverkusen in January. Echeverri could face his parent club in the Champions League<\/a> on Tuesday, but he has struggled for minutes since joining the Bundesliga side in the summer.<\/p>\n

He was an unused substitute as Kasper Hjulmand’s side beat Wolfsburg 3-1 on Saturday and has now featured in just one of their last seven Bundesliga fixtures. The 19-year-old has fared a little better in the Champions League, playing in all four matches and starting two, but in total, he has played just 240 minutes so far during his loan spell.<\/p>\n

That has left City frustrated given the high regard they hold Echeverri in. After arriving at the club in February 2024 after a \u00a312.5million move from River Plate, he made his Blues debut as a substitute in the FA Cup<\/a> final and scored a superb free-kick in the Club World Cup before seeing his tournament ended early through injury.<\/p>\n

His momentum has stalled in Germany, but Guardiola insisted City still had faith in the teenager despite his struggles on loan. “Always would love that players play a lot of minutes, the intention is always there, we have an incredible appreciation about him as a football player,” he said. “I am sure pretty sure his agent will know everything.”<\/p>\n

Guardiola again referenced Echeverri’s agent, Enzo Montepaone, when asked about the possibility of recalling him in January, delivering a sassy response that hinted at frustration at the way things had gone wrong for the Argentina Under-23 international this season.<\/p>\n

“It is a question for his beautiful agent,” Guardiola said when asked if City might bring him back in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claudio Echeverri is on loan at Bayer Leverkusen from Manchester City this season but he is struggling for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,78134,393,4884,2465,1036,2398,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-590965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-claudio-echeverri","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-city-fc","14":"tag-manchester-city-transfer-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115605301965908290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590965","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=590965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}