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What next for Pep Guardiola's Manchester City team

Pep Guardiola can bridle at the suggestion he does not adjust the gameplan when required and for the 3-0 Champions League quarter-final first-leg loss at Liverpool he did, indeed, do so.

The problem was that dropping Raheem Sterling for Ilkay Gündogan was such a rare move – removing a forward for an extra midfielder – that it disrupted Manchester City's rhythm.

He has admitted it may have caused his players to wonder if their ultra-positive coach was "wary" of Liverpool and affected how they performed.

By 57 minutes the tactic had failed and on came Sterling for Gündogan.

Yet if Guardiola did more of this kind of adjustment the team would view it as less an experiment and more the norm and the Catalan would surely become as slick with Plan B as with his Plan A.

Keep Sergio Agüero.

Despite Agüero's 30 goals in 39 appearances – 21 of which were scored in the Premier League – Guardiola remains lukewarm regarding the Argentinian.

The manager believes City are better with Gabriel Jesus as the spearhead because of the Brazilian's swifter link play that allows the side to play more fluidly.

Although Guardiola is open to Agüero leaving this summer, it would be detrimental to let him go.

Could Jesus step up and contribute the weight of goals required should Agüero depart? His figures suggest so but he is yet to enjoy a sustained injury-free period since joining in January 2017.

This term Jesus has nine league strikes in 14 starts (13 in all competitions), and last year there were seven in eight.

This is an impressive ratio that will have to be continued.

Bolster central midfield.

Guardiola has Fernandinho, Gündogan, David Silva and Kevin De Bruyne as frontline midfielders.

There is also Fabian Delph – who is not trusted in the position – plus Oleksandr Zinchenko, who is preferred at left-back.

Yet the manager will bolster this area of the squad in the close season, for two reasons.

First, Silva is 32 and Fernandinho turns 33 next month so each will have their game time managed next season.

Second, Guardiola's is a fierce football ethos based on midfielders being the prime personnel on which his teams are founded.

In saying once that Fernandinho can play all 10 outfield positions Guardiola made the manifesto clear.

Borussia Dortmund's Julian Weigl, 22, is among those the manager will consider in the transfer window.

Replace Vincent Kompany.

The perennial question of who will replace Vincent Kompany remains despite the captain's late-season run of fitness which has taken his league appearances to 15 (19 in all competitions).

Guardiola hopes Aymeric Laporte's January recruitment can help provide an answer, as the Frenchman competes with Kompany, Nicolás Otamendi and John Stones for a place.

Yet Kompany's injury proneness means Guardiola has only three central defenders he can rely on for a position in which his system often requires this number.

Expect Kyle Walker and Benjamin Mendy to be shifted across from full-back on occasion but West Bromwich Albion's Jonny Evans, a career centre-back, may again be of interest.

Continue to be brave.

This may be counterintuitive after City were dumped from the Champions League quarter-finals, 5-1 by Liverpool, but Guardiola must not lose courage in his quest for ever more perfect football.

Given how invigorating City are to watch, next season's fascination will be whether the Pep way can conquer Europe, while he tries to retain the Premier League crown.

To do so he has to solve the issue that plagued him at Bayern Munich, between 2013-16, and in two continental campaigns at City: how to fill the gap in the XI where he fielded Lionel Messi for his double European Cup-winners, Barcelona.

The Argentinian was Guardiola's genie in a bottle, his go-to when the club needed to pull away from an opponent who came at Barça, just as Jürgen Klopp's men did at City this month.

Guardiola has to find another way, and if he maintains the brave desire to always dazzle, the result could be a Messi-less City who are even better than his gilded Barça.

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Porsche Cars North America plans to have at least 500 fast chargers available at dealership

and highway locations across the U.S. by the end of 2019.

By then, the production car based on the Porsche Mission E electric vehicle concept will be

for sale in U.S. dealerships.

A second EV, based on the Mission E Cross Turismo concept, is planned for deliveries

in 2020.

The automaker also continues to consider EV variants of established models such as the

Macan, Panamera and Cayenne, said Klaus Zellmer, CEO of Porsche Cars North America.

The 800-volt fast chargers will help alleviate any range anxiety that potential buyers of

Porsche EVs may feel, Zellmer said.

"If you want to buy that car, you want to know what happens if I go skiing and go further

than 300 miles," Zellmer told Automotive News.

"What do I do?

So we need to have answers for that."

Zellmer called the cars' range a psychological barrier, saying 80 to 90 percent of EV owners

will charge them at home or work.

But a cross-country fast-charging network is a necessary solution to concerns about

the "unlikely instances" when driving distances will exceed the vehicles' 300-mile-plus range,

he said.

EV owners will need to be prepared to pay for use of the fast chargers, which promise

to replenish the batteries to 80 percent of their capacity — enough to drive about 250

miles — in less than 20 minutes.

"We are pretty certain that it's not free of charge," Zellmer said.

"It's too early to talk about how exactly that payment process for customers will work.

There are various opportunities.

You could buy a package all included for the car.

It could be a membership card that you use.

We're not quite there yet."

Zellmer said dealerships would have the option to offer free fast charging to their customers

if they like the traffic and want to use the charging time as a way to engage customers

in dealership offerings.

Porsche plans to inform each of its 189 U.S. dealerships in June of the infrastructure

investment recommended for each location.

A third-party vendor has visited every store over the last six months to evaluate those

needs, Zellmer said.

He wants dealerships to complete fast-charger installations by the second half of 2019.

Dealership investment is not yet finalized, but "it's not a minor cost," Zellmer said.

"It certainly is six-digit numbers that our dealers will have to take."

Dealers are being asked to install at least one fast charger at each location along with

a battery buffer that stores electricity from the grid.

That buffer can then fast charge three cars in a row.

The battery buffer option is much cheaper than setting up the system to charge vehicles

straight from the grid, Zellmer said.

Porsche has spent more than $1 million to install six fast chargers that charge directly

from the grid at its U.S. headquarters in Atlanta, he said.

The automaker is working with three potential partners — ChargePoint, EVgo and Electrify

America — to set up the 300-plus nondealership fast chargers.

Porsche also is considering destination charging at locations such as golf courses and hotels.

Those wouldn't have to have fast-charging technology, Zellmer said.

Porsche dealers expect to get a road map and a clearer picture of the costs of the charging

infrastructure soon, Todd Blue, a member of the Porsche Dealer Board of Regents, said

recently.

"Nothing will be a surprise to any of the dealers," said Blue, CEO of IndiGO Auto Group,

which has Porsche stores in St. Louis, Houston and Rancho Mirage, Calif.

"Porsche is on this.

We'll be ready, and they are getting us ready through a tremendous amount of communications."