"Pep Guardiola's overweight comment was hard to take"

Kalvin Phillips does not forget what Pep Guardiola, his manager, said to him after his return from the World Cup in Qatar, when he said the England midfielder was overweight.

"For me, I wasn't overweight, but obviously the coach saw it very differently. I just accepted it and did everything I could to get as fit as possible," Kalvin Phillips told the 'BBC'.

Guardiola's words pointed out to him: "It was a bit hard to take because of how the subject was exaggerated, and the number of people who started talking about it.

"I was on the bench for the Leeds game, just after that, and I was fit for every game since then," said a player who has hardly featured for Guardiola.