"What we missed this season was heart, soul; the desire... For a manager the most important thing is to recover this passion. After Bournemouth [in November], ...as a team we didn’t have heart. That’s the most important thing we have to recover at the end of the season and in the future.”

Guardiola was asked why the heart had been missing during what has been the toughest season of his nine at City. “I will write it in my memoirs,” he said. “It was many things. Not just one. And put Pep first on the list. I should have taken decisions I didn’t take in the right moment.

Interesting to me that he, 

...relied on what he called his “legendary” players – Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva and Ilkay Gündogan – in his side’s win...

at Bournemouth in the FA Cup Sunday, because the roster is old, it needed an injection of new youth which Pep also has admitted. He should have added players last summer, he has said. But Sunday, for one match, one last time, he leaned on his "legends" to recapture the "soul" of Manchester City.