Manchester City attacker Raheem Sterling insists his relationship with manager Pep Guardiola is rock solid.
Sterling admits he looks to Guardiola as a role model.
He told the Manchester Evening News, "It'sI don't know how to explain it. You see clips of him talking to you but it's not like that every day. It's one incident where he's speaking to me. He talks to us as a group and you take information on. You learn. If you don't learn, you don't play. It's not like he's sat there in a room with a pen and paper writing things down on what I should do.
"He'll tell you: 'I've been a professional before.' He helps me along the way in terms of little details, doing things a little simpler and taking a lot more care. If you don't want to improve your own game then, or don't want to look at yourself, then there is nothing Pep can do to help you.
"I take a lot of positives from him, purely by the way he carries himself, the way he sets those high standards. It rubs off. That has improved me the most: the standards he sets. It makes sure I don't fall from my standards."
