City are set for a summer of change after a disappointing campaign that saw them fail to lift a major trophy and the coach has requested for "good players" to arrive at the Etihad Stadium.
Asked about what additions are needed at City, Guardiola told ESPN: "Always the same: Give me good players.
"The rest, it doesn't matter. The good players can adapt and adjust. We will adapt the movement or tactics or whatever things we say as managers for the quality of the players.
"And especially [give me] players that go to Anfield, go to [Real] Madrid, the Bernabéu, Barcelona, Camp Nou or wherever and say: 'OK, I'm going to play my best.' That is the difference, the top players have that.
"But we are not adjusting for the fact that we [had a tough season]. If we win, I don't have to adjust anything? That is a mistake. When you win, you also have to adjust things.
"Day by day, game by game, week by week [you adjust]. Of course we are going to adjust some things, but not for the fact that we just won the Community Shield."
Guardiola's coaching staff is also undergoing major changes this summer - with assistants Juanma Lilo and Inigo Dominguez as well as set-piece coach Carlos Vicens all leaving - and the manager expects the replacement to give his side fresh impetus next term, even though he is sad that close colleagues are moving on.
He said: "I'm going to lose people that I adore and they mean something, of course, but it happened in the past with many people.
"In 15 years, a lot left, everyone cheated on me! But the new ones, younger people and new players, they always bring this energy and this energy revitalises a lot.
"I need energy for myself and the people give me energy. You see the eyes, new faces, 'I want to do it,' 'I want to be there,' new little details in the training sessions. It's new energy.
"Because energy for itself, the energy is one Premier League more, one Champions League more or one Community Shield more? It's not. It's not going to change my life one Premier League more or less in my period in Man City, it's not going to change anything.
"But the [new] people, they give you that [energy] day by day, the people. That is the reason why changing players and staff is really good."
