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You know Pep Guardiola is enjoying himself in a press conference at Manchester City when the wink comes out. The Catalan will crack a joke, pick out a face in the audience and wink. It is all part of the theatre.

But he doesn't always enjoy these scenarios and on a Friday afternoon, he can be slow to warm up, only really engaging as we get deeper into the press conference.

Maybe it's more pronounced straight after an international break, because the City boss was monosyllabic at the start of his pre-Everton press conference. Offering one or two-word answers and showing little appetite for offering an opinion on anything put to him.

That all changed when Carles Planchart's name came up. Planchart, a performance analyst who worked with Guardiola for 18 years at Barcelona,

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