Pep Guardiola reveals future transfer plans at Man City

Pep Guardiola insists football’s spending has reached unsustainable levels, even as he bids to take Manchester City's summer outlay to £300m.

Guardiola has already brought in £220m-worth of new recruits during this transfer window - and still hopes to sign Alexis Sanchez and a centre back before the end of the month.

But he claims there will be no repeat of his drastic overhaul this summer - insisting an unprecedented churn of players was required to turn City into title contenders for years to come.

“I think it is unsustainable,” he said. “Sooner or later it’s going to finish.

“Hopefully next season I will be here and we are not going to spend how we spent this season. Six players were out of contract.

“In the last six or seven years Manchester City didn’t buy full backs.

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“We didn’t have full backs and you have to buy full backs. We bought three and the market is so demanding for all the teams not just Manchester City.

“In the next three or four years Manchester City will buy one, two, maybe three players. But not what happened this summer.

“We needed to do that because it was one of the oldest teams in Europe not just the Premier League and we need to change it.

“We were not able with those players to find a solution. But the solution is not changing players every season.”

Guardiola hopes the arrivals of Ederson Moraes, Kyle Walker, Benjamin Mendy, Danilo and Bernardo Silva will transform a team who finished 15 points adrift of champions Chelsea last season