Guardiola won't change Man City tactics despite Haaland's arrival

dominated the Premier League last year without a recognized striker, however, now with Haaland and Alvarez on the books, many suggested Guardiola's use of a false-nine forward may well be over. However, Guardiola firmly told

that the new faces, including backup goalkeeper Stefan Ortega, will have to adjust to their style of football.

said ahead of their Community Shield clash with Liverpool:

“We are not going to change the way we play. We’re going to adapt the quality that the players have to be involved in the way we play, but we are not going to change the way we play.

“Why should we change the way we play when we did really quite well in these last seasons?

“But we want Erling, Julian, and Kalvin, and of course, Stefan, we want the best of them, the best version of them, adapting what you want to play.

“I’m pretty sure it’s happened. It’s [been] just a few days together, but the feeling is really good for all of them.”

Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko left Manchester City to join

, while Sterling headed the Gunners' rivals,

. Guardiola admits he wanted to keep the trio as some of City's previous success was down to their contributions.

“

All we have done these seasons, without them it would have not been possible,”

Guardiola said of the trio.

“Raheem has been the pace and we are a team that make all the passes and he makes this explosion. There’s something incredible, unpredictable [about] his runs in the right, left.

“I saw how he grew up in his ambition to score goals, to make an assist, and [became] more hungry, and more, in the good terms, selfish to say, I want more goals. He’s a guy who can play every three days, he would never get injured. He was top.

“Oleks arrived as a boy, coming from Ukraine, and he went on loan to Holland and came back and we wanted to loan him again, we wanted to sell him again.

“He said, ‘no, I want to stay.’ He was in the gym when everyone was sleeping and making extra training sessions when the training session was over, and he said, ‘my time will come’ and his time came, and he was there, he was ready, and he played incredibly well. He’s a top-class player and we will miss him a lot.”

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