Pep Guardiola sought a challenge at every stage of his managerial career. Was it swap for Barcelona B Barcelona Just after one season, moving forward Bayern Munich Or taking it on Premier League with Manchester CityHe is usually out on top.
On his first day at Etihad Stadium in 2016, he admitted that despite trophies in Spain and Germany, the question on everyone’s lips ahead of his arrival in England was: “How good is it?” He has once responded to this with 18 trophies in nine years in Manchester.
But between a vortex of change in the city and the center of English football, he is facing the possibility of responding again. In a career filled with challenges, it is probably one of the largest so far.
If things were played in different ways, then Guardiola can already enjoy its retirement on a beach in Maldives or a golf course in Portugal. He chose to live in the city, in the part, because the beginning of this last season – only the second to end without a trophy during his magic in Etihad was so difficult and he did not want to leave the club in a mess. It seems that he also realized that it would be easy to hand over the club to a new manager in summer, which did not include the additional complexity of the club World Cup.
After 2027, after deciding to stay on a contract extension and sign, he has worked to form another title-winning team. This is just that now the landscape is very different.
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He selected for the Champions League final from the squad inter Milan In Istanbul just two years ago, 15 players – including Kevin de Bruin, Ederson, Kyle Walker And Ilke Gundogan – Either left or taken out for fringe.
This is not just those personnel who have changed. After dealing with the huge squad turnover at the same time, the Guardiola is also trying to be favorable as a change in the balance of the Premier League.
At one point when the success of teams is discussed in this last season Nuclear, Bornemoth And BrightonHe said that “there is no modern football position, you have to ride the rhythm.” It was a lot of entry from a coach that has created an empire on a strict structure of positions and movements.
After the city’s champions league defeat real Madrid In February, he said that his “strategy does not work as he used to do.” Prior to this season, he insisted that he likes to “ever change his beliefs” and still like to make his team “a thousand, million pass”.
It seems, however, he has reached an acceptance that he has to change over time.
In this season, he is trying to marry his will for control with more high pressure and sharp, what is happening elsewhere in the league, more direct attacks for this. This is one of the reasons when he played such an important role in developing the “heavy metal” style of Jurgan Clop by Dutchman. Liverpool,
This is a good idea, trying to merge elements of two of the most successful teams in the modern Premier League era, but it has come up with some early problems.
Wins 4–0 after starting with one eye holding wolf To open the 2025–26 season, City lost its next two matches. Defeated Tottenham And brighton, he accepted almost identical goals when rapidly exploited gapping holes – the gaps made more clear by the high defensive line, which is favored by the Lijanders.
it’s something Manchester United Manager Ruben Amorim will not have any doubt about Manchester Derby in Etihad on Sunday. The city will kick against the United One Point and at four places under its neighbors on the table. They are already six points behind the champion Liverpool, which can now call the new £ 125 million striker. Alexander its After international break.
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Since Manchester United in 1992-93, any team has lost two of their first three matches and still proceeded to win the league. Even in this initial phase, if the Guardiola is raised six times in seven years between 2017 and 2024, then there is a lot of land to make it.
But if it is not going for the city and Guardiola this season, when? Guardiola has a contract for the next two years, but the employees have tried to guess when he can call it quits.
There is a feeling in some corners of the City Football Academy that this could be their last season so far. There are other people who feel that, even if he has admitted that he is coming to the end, 54 -year -old may still be convinced to sign another new contract. This will depend much on its own energy levels and whether the working relationship with the director of football Hugo Viana – who took from Guardiola’s great friend TXIKI BEGIRISTAIN – is running easily.
Either way, City Boss had decided a long time ago that Guardiola had acquired the right to decide how and when he goes. He has admitted that this last season was so bad in terms of specific goals of the city that he was hit by an ax by another top club.
At the end of his 26 years at United, Sir Alex Ferguson bowed as a champion after winning the title in 2013 and made the achievements of Guardiola worth the same ending.
To send themselves correctly, they will need to add another great team able to conclude in a separate era of the Premier League. Ticking from the list is another major challenge.
