Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has ruled-out a future return to Barcelona and has suggested changes to the FA Cup's historic format, Sky Sports reports.

What's the word?

After three-years of success with Barcelona, Pep Guardiola is widely considered to be a key-part in the creation of the Catalan giants as one of the best sides in world football and was also influential on the career of a certain Lionel Messi.

With pressure growing on his predecessor Luis Enrique, following a shocking 4-0 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League Round of 16 on Tuesday evening, Barcelona look set to shake things up behind the scenes yet again.

Many fans in Catalonia may dream of Guardiola leaving the Premier League and returning to the Nou Camp in the future but the Spaniard has made it clear he won't ever be returning to his beloved club, whilst he's also backed them to turn around their first-leg deficit in Europe's elite competition.

What was said?

Quoted by Sky Sports, Guardiola said:

"There's a lot of competition, the opposition are so strong. You can win heavily or you can lose heavily, that can happen, it's happened to me, but there are 90 minutes to go and anything can happen. If there's a team who can do it, then it's Barca, with their mentality."

"I will never go back to Barcelona to be coach there. My period there is gone. Barcelona are still the best team in the world. It's always a surprise because they are so, so good, but in football anything can happen."

What about the FA Cup?

Guardiola, in a very long series of quotes that covered a wide range of topics, also suggested that English football could benefit from scrapping replays in the FA Cup and instead following the structure of Spain's Copa Del Rey.

"In Spain, we play two games. I prefer that situation. Maybe for the amount of games played, extra-time and penalties would be good."

"But OK, I'm not here to decide the rules of how we play the competition, I'm here to play the competition in the way that the chairmen and the important people decide. I prefer the quality over the quantity. Not only here in England, all around the world. It's a big mistake, so many games."

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