“You purchase a participant for some huge cash and he isn’t capable of play for a rule I do not perceive. Hopefully they’ll change it,” he added.

Metropolis’s different January signing, winger Antoine Semenyo, arrived on the membership from Bournemouth 4 days previous to their journey to the north east for the primary leg in opposition to Newcastle, by which he scored.

“Antoine arrived earlier than the primary [game] so might play. And now it is the ultimate. Why ought to he [Guehi] not play? Why not? We pay his wage, he’s our participant,” Guardiola added.

“I stated to the membership, they must ask, undoubtedly. I do not perceive the explanation why he can not play within the last in March, when I’ve been right here for a very long time.

“The principles to purchase a participant relies on Fifa, Uefa, the Premier League who say, OK the switch window is open, whenever you purchase a participant you must play, no? It is logic. After all we’re going to attempt to ask [for] him to play. Pure logic.

Requested what he thought the reply shall be from the EFL, Metropolis’s Spanish boss, added: “No. However we are going to attempt.”

Metropolis have already benefited from one rule change this season that allowed gamers to play for 2 groups in the identical competitors, as a substitute of being cup tied.

That allowed Semenyo and Max Alleyne to function within the semi-final matches, regardless of showing for Bournemouth and Watford respectively in earlier rounds.