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25th August 2018
12:17pm BST

Without the option of an emergency loan, City were only left with the option of signing a free agent. Diego Cavalieri, 35, who joined Crystal Palace in January but left in the summer having not played for the Eagles was one option.
However City would still have required from the Premier League to sign a free agent and after the league granted them permission to recall Muric from his loan spell, it's unlikely that City would have been allowed to sign a free agent too.
Pep Guardiola believes these rules need loosening, as injury crises can occur quickly and unexpectedly.
"Yes. Not just for goalkeepers but for when there are big injuries to players. If we had not been allowed to bring back Aro, I don’t know what would have happened," the City manager said. “But the rules are the rules. Maybe the federation can think about that when there are long injuries and it is still the period where the European window is open. Then maybe you could do it. “Here it is closed, and it is good that the competition starts with the whole squad [in place]. But maybe we could think about that, especially when the injuries are five or six months.”
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