Pep Guardiola has paid tribute to Jurgen Klopp for making him a better manager following Manchester City’s title success.
City were crowned Premier League champions on Tuesday, succeeding Klopp’s Liverpool.
The two managers have had a strong, but largely respectful, rivalry at the top of the English game in recent years and Liverpool boss Klopp was among the first to congratulate Guardiola this week.
“The guys who are completely fit, 100 per cent mentally and physically, will have the chance to play the final.”
The final will now take place in Porto after being moved from Istanbul due to travel restrictions. Talks over potentially playing it at Wembley were unsuccessful.
Guardiola said: “If UEFA decide that, we are going to go to Porto. I have had the pleasure to go to Istanbul but since my period as a football player in Barcelona, I never had the opportunity to go there again, not even in the Champions League.
“For Ilkay Gundogan I wanted to go there. Unfortunately UEFA decided to go to Portugal, so we are going to be in Portugal. No problem there.”
