Pep Guardiola has chosen Manchester City. Shocking? Not at all. Actually, it was more surprised by the timing (announce it on the last day of the winter transfer window, no idea …) as the destination. Because it was written that Pep Guardiola would use its tailored pants on the bench of the Etihad Stadium affects one time or another.
After FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich, club whose history and prestige are inversely proportional to the heyday of Citizens in the Champions League, Pep will discover a new environment. Seen from afar, the choice seems bold. And not “Guardiolesque” for a penny. Why ? Because in flying to England for more than Manchester, the talented technician took a risk. The Premier League has its codes and they differ greatly from those of the Bundesliga or Liga. José Mourinho, flyer before the Lord who has experienced the best and worst in the Premier League – a title he wears the pinnacle of competitiveness – could talk him better than anyone. If the two men addressed the speech he hears.
Up close, the situation is somewhat different. If one puts aside philosophical aspect of it and the fact that for the first time in his career, Guardiola seems to have preferred the pageantry prestige, the Catalan eventually worked as usual: by going where he was most certain.
Manchester United made him the eye, and Chelsea also, ultimately, Arsenal would have been an exciting destination for football reasons you imagine. However, Manchester City had the last word. Why ? For the same reasons that had made opt for Bayern Munich in January 2013: security. However relative it is in football, it is more important side of the Etihad Stadium, where Pep joined two former home of Barça (Begiristain, Soriano) at Old Trafford, where everything is (re) build after twenty-seven years of Ferguson and missed nearly three years under Moyes and van Gaal. And you can imagine that sign on the side of Stamford Bridge, where there is Roman Abramovich, whose idol remains a certain Jose Mourinho, had been marked with the seal of the plume decision. If not unconsciousness.
However not imagine that I criticized Pep Guardiola to be cautious in nature. And it was wrong of spinning City. Pep does what he wants, and in the north of England, the Catalan will also have bread on the board to join the European summits. Maybe more than he imagined, by the way ….
After all, this sense of security, it is also the great strength of Pep. Has anyone ever criticized Phil Jackson, coach NBA great before the Lord, to have won eleven titles on the bench of the Bulls and Lakers as its armed wings have successively – or simultaneously – known as Jordan, O ‘ Neal and Bryant, and not trying to run a second-team? Not at all. It would be equally cheeky attack Guardiola on this ground when it binds to the better equipped the continent stables, those who seem cut him to quench his insatiable thirst for titles.
Catalan is a meticulous nature. He analyzes everything, examine every detail and leaves the chance that the smaller the parts: this is his strength. And that’s why the City has attracted in his nets. Even if it does not obvious and it does not please the red half of Manchester City, both were made for each other.
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