Pep Guardiola spoke passionately to players after their Champions League defeat against Tottenham last season - in a bid to inspire them onto domestic glory.
City felt hard done by when they went out on away goals in the quarter finals of the European competition to Mauricio Pochettino's Spurs last term.
They went out in heartbreaking fashion when what seemed like a late winning goal was ruled out by VAR.
The Sun reports that Pep said the following to his players after the game: "I'm proud of you. I know you feel like s*** and you think it's not fair.
"Well, that's exactly what we're going to do now. Eat this f****** s*** that we have to eat.
"Because we did everything to eliminate Spurs and they f****** beat us, we're out on our f****** a*****.
"Now we just have to fight for everything we have left, stand up and fight for what we can still win."
