The Spaniard, who had previously managed Barcelona and Bayern Munich, was not shy to give his opinion on the City squad at the time.
Clichy told the ZACK YouTube channel: "I've known that I've been coming here for a year now and I've been watching you, you're a team full of fat players.
"I want my players like this (stick thin). I'm going to organise a working weight for each of you. It's not you that's going to decide that working weight. It's me that will decide at the end of five weeks of pre-season."
Clichy then added: "More than two kilos (overweight), you turn (do laps of the pitch). We came back from pre-season. Two players were overweight.
"I'm not talking about players from the academy. Two senior players are overweight. For ten days he's making them do laps of the pitch."