Some say the man who built the best team in history, a man with two Champions Leagues to his name, is still unproven, and that his move to City is the easy option - they are wrongThe suggestion that Pep Guardiola only takes the easy option, and that in choosing Manchester City he has done so once again, should be disregarded immediately as nonsense. It is simply not true, and for many reasons.
First of all, he is supposed to have inherited a great Barcelona team that was apparently destined to be successful no matter who was in charge. He already had Lionel Messi, Xavi, Andres Iniesta, Thierry Henry, Carles Puyol and Samuel Eto'o, they say, and that selling Ronaldinho, still one of the world's best, to make Messi the main man was an obvious decision. That can only be put down to some kind of perverse revisionism.
This was Guardiola's first job in senior management; had he not been anything other than an extraodinary coach and a great motivator, would these very players - talented, iconic and stubborn, as Pep's detractors acknowledge - have respected him and responded to his ideas? Ideas which were, are and continue to be, extremely demanding? He would not have lasted a season had he been the chancer that some are suggesting, much less gone on to mould what is probably the best football team in history, one that set tactical trends that countless top clubs now follow.
Source:Goal
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