Pep Guardiola accepts he has made life hard for himself at Manchester City with the high standards set in the past couple of seasons but not so hard that he wants to walk away. The Manchester City manager emphatically denied reports he may exercise an escape clause in his contract at the end of the season but conceded his side are struggling “behind an opponent that doesn’t drop points”. By that he meant Liverpool, runaway leaders of the Premier League, though Guardiola was also prepared to concede Leicester, too, have opened up a gap on the defending champions. “I should think about Leicester before Liverpool,” Guardiola said. “Unless we can catch Leicester there is not one thought in my mind about Liverpool. In the last years we were incredibly consistent at home and away but this time we have dropped points. It is not about the performances, I would be really concerned if I thought our game was not there but we have been allowing opponents clear chances and we have to work on that. The Chelsea game last month was the one where we struggled the most. They were the side who caused us the most problems by far,…