Kalvin Phillips opens up on the lasting effects of Pep Guardiola’s ‘overweight’ comment at Manchester City

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Kalvin Phillips admits he was left frustrated by Pep Guardiola’s comments about his weight at Manchester City. “I think that narrative on social media just kind of grew and grew,” the City midfielder, who is on loan at Ipswich Town this season, told the My Mate’s a Footballer podcast, hosted by his former Leeds United teammate Patrick Bamford. “The first game we played, West Ham away, in my first season there, he literally told the team in a meeting probably two days before how the game was going to play out,” Phillips said. “Just back to enjoying my football because obviously I loved it at City, they’re the best team in the world, they’ve got amazing players and amazing people there it’s kind of draining when you know you’re not going to play on the weekend and you’ve still got to go in and train as well as you can and hopefully make yourself better and better everyday.