Football management at the top level is more about charisma than many of the twitter nerds would like to believe. I think it was Nagelsmann was the one saying it was like 60% people skills and 40% actual tactics.
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Guardiola might be a genius but his job is made slightly easier because he has assembled the most expensive team in Europe, with world class players on the bench so unlike most other managers, he has fewer injuries during the season and more options when rotating the team during a game.
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I think part of top level managing is knowing about these systems, that have been used for decades and to read the trends of what the current state of the game is. Using these traditional approaches isn’t a new concept but spotting when and how to use them is what separates the top managers imo.
Well, you do manage people (as a football manager).
That’s nothing outstanding/extraordinary to say.
‘Revolutionary’. You literally do this on football manager. It’s one of the strongest strategies in the 2017 edition and any old edition where the Diamond formation was strong.
Just call it ‘How Guardiola is adapting’.
Maybe not generally, but in the context of the current obsession with tactics, it is heavily overlooked as a factor.
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These are all the same principles Cruijff has been going on about forever. Use the full width of the pitch in order to prevent teams from flooding the centre to make it hard to combine and try to create an overload at the same time. The objective is basically to get a 2-3-5 or 3-2-5 in possession, because of Sane and Sterling, he chose to achieve this with inverted full backs, and now with less forward going players he choses for attacking, overlapping full backs, but this is not a new trend at all.
It’s no surprise this guy is working for The Athletic. Pretentious pricks.
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It’s literally what he was doing with Barcelona.
Has Pep ever gone more than 1 season without a trophy in his managerial career?
No, this is only his second trophyless season in his entire managerial career.
It’s the club World Cup. Literally no one cares and I doubt pep does
City certainly was one of the clubs that cared about this competition, especially after how their season went domestically and in Europe.
That’s why they did majority of their business early to have players available for the Club World Cup.
You should have seen their players crying at the end of the game and Pep trying to console them. At the end of the regular time, Pep even rushed into the pitch and confronted the referee.
Great hatewatch I must say.
Embarrassing of any grown man to cry because his team got knocked out of the Club World Cup lol
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Cherki was one of them. 
Pussy lol
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Just noticed Joao Cancelo was on the winning side and had an assist.
You should have seen him yesterday. Dude was operating on pure hatred for Pep. He even remembered how to defend.
His assist was fantastic. 
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Odds on this being his last season?
https://x.com/DeadlineDayLive/status/1949803020994462022?t=klIPM1MWE6x3HhfoEp4UuQ&s=19
Have you seen him rocking a moustache? He looks like Del Bosque. 
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