Gary Lineker has given his verdict on calls for Pep Guardiola to be sacked by Manchester City.
The Spaniard suffered yet another harrowing defeat in the Champions League on Wednesday night as City were knocked out in devastating fashion by Real Madrid in the second-leg of their semi-final clash.
City were 5-3 up on aggregate with just minutes left on the clock at the Bernabeu after Riyad Mahrez's goal, but suffered a meltdown as Rodrygo scored two goals in as many stoppage time minutes for Los Blancos. The writing was on the wall for extra-time and captain Karim Benzema sealed City's exit with a penalty, leading to calls by some to sack Guardiola.
One Twitter user wrote: "Are Man City ever going to sack Pep Guardiola for his repeated failure? And yes, it is failure. You don't spend £2bn on players for a few domestic pots."
A second tweeted: "In a serious club, Guardiola will be getting the sack after this game."
And another fan on talkSPORT said: "The board needs to re-evaluate. We need a manager that wins at this level. We've done everything at the domestic level, but we can't do it in the Champions League... we need a manager who can perform."
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But former England and Barcelona striker Gary Lineker savagely shut down talks of the man who has delivered City three league titles and a Champions League final being sacked.
Lineker sided with Guardiola despite his failure to win the competition with the Manchester club, simply quote-tweeting the talkSPORT fan's comments with: "Fools."
Guardiola has now been knocked out of Europe once in the semi-finals with City, three times in the quarters and again in last year's final against Chelsea. His previous wins both came at Barcelona over a decade ago, having also missed out on the coveted prize with Bayern Munich.