“But the last two days we came down from the mountain and we start from there – everyone with the same intention – and while there will be a lot of difficulties to climb the mountain as high as possible to our level, we'll see.”
Manchester City have won five of the last six Premier League titles under Guardiola and a dozen major trophies since his arrival at the Etihad in 2016.
While the City boss said it was too soon to make any predictions about whether they can add to that haul for all that his players have returned just as hungry.
“Our football, our behaviours, our mentality will dictate how the season will be,” he said.
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“Every season we start from zero again but history speaks for itself when you achieve something that we have done its almost impossible to repeat.”
Guardiola reported both Nathan Ake and new signing Josko Gvardiol are fit and ready to play but both are likely to start on the bench at Turf Moor.