Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is concerned that his team could become fatigued due to the inability to fly back home after their Wednesday match against Newcastle.

City's usual practice after an away match is to fly home to Manchester, but they will be forced to embark on a lengthy bus journey this time because of plane-related issues, as explained by Guardiola.

The reigning European and English champions will return later than planned due to this five-and-a-half-hour bus trip, with their estimated arrival in Manchester around 2 a.m. on Thursday.

Subsequently, they will have to travel to Wolves on Friday for preparations ahead of their Premier League match on Saturday. Guardiola is anxious about the physical condition of his players given this demanding schedule.

"After the game we cannot come back by plane because of a problem - something for the planes," he told reporters. "We don’t have a plane to travel back, so we have to take a bus. It's two or three hours later that we will arrive here - so, so late, arriving on Thursday.

The day after, Friday, we travel to Wolves, so that's what you have to think about.

"Then we go to Germany to play [RB] Leipzig in the Champions League next week. That's a really important game for us, because we know what it means to be able to win there to qualify for the next stage.

"I don’t know what happened [with the aeroplane] . The team manager told me. It happened with the previous one, I think in London.

It’s not a problem with the bus, but we will arrive much, much later than we expected, but it is what it is."

City will hope to maintain their perfect start to the season by beating Newcastle in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday.