Croatian defender Gvardiol joins compatriot Mateo Kovacic on the sidelines, who Guardiola last week said will likely be unavailable until September, for our Premier League opener at Molineux this weekend.
Meanwhile, Savinho is set to miss out after picking up an injury in last week’s pre-season trip to Palermo.
However, the boss expects Phil Foden and Rodri, who both also sat out the game in Sicily, to travel for the 17:30 (UK) kick-off.
Asked for injury updates by media on Friday, Guardiola was open about the players he has to pick from.
“Kovacic is not ready, Josko is not ready, the others are,” he began.
“They will travel tomorrow and selection we will see. Tomorrow we decide.
“Savinho is injured from Palermo. Few weeks he will be out.”
The boss also called for patience as the club manage Rodri’s return from injury.
“Rodri is so soon to come back but it is important his knee is perfect,” he stated.
“He played Juventus after six weeks in his leg and we try to avoid that now he needs to play minutes in training sessions.
“What we want for him is to come back and to take a step back that would not be good. In this dynamic you can’t get rhythm, it is so demanding.
“He’s made good training sessions and tomorrow he’s travelling. We will decide how many minutes.
“Hopefully he can play minutes in next games then after the international break every three days he can help us.”
City v spurs app coverage
Our official app allows you to follow all of the action from the Etihad in one place.
Minute-by-minute text updates will begin in our Matchday Centre two hours before kick-off, while our Matchday Live show will begin at around 11:15 (UK).
Steph Houghton and Michael Brown will be the guests on the latest Matchday Live show alongside presenter Cel Spellman, offering their expert insight before, during and after the action.
During the game you can also listen to live audio commentary from Alistair Mann and Andy Morrison while our text commentary continues.
Make sure to have push notifications turned on as well, so you can be alerted to key moments in the action, including goals, red cards and the team news.
We’ll have a quick-hit 2-minute highlights package available at 17:15 (UK), while you can sign-in to watch a free 8-minute edit at midnight. On CITY+ meanwhile, there’ll be our popular full-match replay as well as our new extended highlights offering which features the best 20 minutes of action from the game. Both are also available at midnight.
