Guardiola to be found out in the premier league

[bring the ghost on]

Ibrahimovic's autobiography is fascinating when it comes to Guardiola, well worth a read for a non-sky opinion on him. Players who are not in the first 11 are basically invisible to him, wont even talk to them and quickly gets rid of any players that have a contrary opinion to him. There is a classic anecdote about all the players at Barcelona only driving audis as they were the club cars. He creates a kind of club think and the players become almost cult members.

I'd take a lot of what is in Ibra's autobiography with huge pinches of salt (entertaining read though it is).

Clearly, there is no love lost between the two of them, but Ibra was largely upset because his ego was bruised when Guardiola decided he didn't figure in his plans. Guardiola has shown with plenty of players (Deco, Eto'o, Joe Hart, to name a few) that he won't keep a player just because of their reputation and especially not if their ego is a problem.

 

[GerryandthePaceMerchants]

Admirable stance on the parasites that are agents

 

[stony]

Toure is a tit, his agent is a tit, but why would Toure apologise for something his agent said, and more importantly why would something one of your players agents' said bear any role on what team you choose. Absolute childish gimps.

Yaya Toure : "Everything Dimitri said is true. He speaks for me....." That was during cakegate. Seluk say's nothing without Toure's say so.
Yaya was finished at City the moment he lied about City not giving him time off to see his dying brother. We should have [Poor language removed] him off then but no one was interested in matching his wages and Yaya wouldn't drop his wage demands. I suspect we took the pragmatic viewpoint and gave him a chance to prove himself. He hasn't, and has been missing for two years.
It's a shame it's ending like this but any love I had for Yaya died a long time ago. Fantastic player on his day, but an utter weapon.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Ibrahimovic's autobiography is fascinating when it comes to Guardiola, well worth a read for a non-sky opinion on him. Players who are not in the first 11 are basically invisible to him, wont even talk to them and quickly gets rid of any players that have a contrary opinion to him. There is a classic anecdote about all the players at Barcelona only driving audis as they were the club cars. He creates a kind of club think and the players become almost cult members.

Toure and his agent are not the only tits in this.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...writer-admits-inventing-quotes-in-i-am-zlatan

 

[dublinbluenose]

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...writer-admits-inventing-quotes-in-i-am-zlatan

Hes spoken about his time Everton at Barcelona before and after the book.

However, Ibrahimovic ensured that his opinion of Guardiola was made known, and speaking to journalists alongside representative Mino Raiola, he remarked: “When I walk into a room, [Pep] Guardiola will walk out. I don’t know if he is scared of me.

“He is the philosopher who has broken my dream of being at Barcelona. The coach did not want me and I will not waste any more time. I want to retrieve my love of football with another team. I leave with more motivation and the strength to do better. In football, things can change within 24 hours.”

The Swede, when asked if he was aware of any reason why he and Guardiola did not enjoy a fruitful relationship, said simply: “You need to talk to him, it is he who has the problem, and I do not know what it is.

 

[marsh]

9 out of 9

 

[LABlue2]

I don't like him.

 

[BlueSingh]

Quoting some Ajax fan on another forum with an interesting insight on the Guardiola way.

"A near flalwess execution of Guardiolas position game. La Pausa, drawing a disorgainsed press that is prevalent in English football and then exploiting the space between the lines. "Pep's football won't work in England" they said.

German football made him more than prepared for this league as they have better organisation and infinitely superior pressing schemes and compactness."

 

[BlueSingh]

Quoting some Ajax fan on another forum with an interesting insight on the Guardiola way.

"A near flalwess execution of Guardiolas position game. La Pausa, drawing a disorgainsed press that is prevalent in English football and then exploiting the space between the lines. "Pep's football won't work in England" they said.

German football made him more than prepared for this league as they have better organisation and infinitely superior pressing schemes and compactness."

Gifs don't work here?

 

[Ashtonian]

Hes spoken about his time Everton at Barcelona before and after the book.

Everton?

 

[Boss_Blue]

Gifs don't work here?

You need to activate gifs mate.

@orly can talk you through it.

 

[Kiwi]

Gifs don't work here?

Hey mate, sorry sometimes the forum gets a little bit glitchy.
What you'll need to do is to start a thread titled "ACTIVATE: GIFS" and write @mods in the text part of the thread. This does not actually start a thread but alerts the moderators to the problems you are having and they can fiddle round with the forum coding fixing the macro.

 

[Goat]

As I said all along, the mans a fraud, he wont win a single game.

 

[orly]

Gifs don't work here?

Hi mate, send me a quick message and I'll run through it for you

 

[orly]

Hey mate, sorry sometimes the forum gets a little bit glitchy.
What you'll need to do is to start a thread titled "ACTIVATE: GIFS" and write @mods in the text part of the thread. This does not actually start a thread but alerts the moderators to the problems you are having and they can fiddle round with the forum coding fixing the macro.

Oh no worries @BlueSingh my Friend here has explained it rightly.

remember though no space between the : and the G or the macro fails