Bernardo Silva has revealed what Pep Guardiola demands from his Manchester City players, and why that has led to the club's rise over the years, speaking during a recent interview, Aside from his astounding trophy haul, Pep Guardiola certainly deserves plenty of credit for transforming footballing cultures in every country he has managed in.
While his impact in Spain and Germany led to the meteoric rise of possession-based football that played a major role in both nations’ roaring successes on the international stage, his signature style has also seeped down to England’s lower leagues.
The enigmatic Bernardo Silva lifted the lid on how the Spaniard has managed to transform Manchester City into one of the most successful teams in the world over the years, during a recent interview with the cinemaimpero sports.
“Pep (Guardiola) is very demanding, but he doesn’t demand that you do extraordinary things. He demands you to do the simple things well," Bernardo Silva explained to Paul Hirst of the Times.
He continued, "We’re very simple in the way we play. Everyone does what’s best for the team and not what’s best for each individual. That’s what makes us a successful team."
Manchester City’s post-Pep planning must avoid United’s failures
City’s rivals, still in limbo after bungling the task of replacing Alex Ferguson, are proof of the pitfalls of a poor succession plan,
Many years afterwards, Pep Guardiola would joke that the reason he never took over at Manchester United was because he couldn’t understand Alex Ferguson’s accent. The pair went for dinner in New York in September 2012, when Guardiola was on sabbatical and pondering his next move. Over a luxurious meal and fine wine – all paid for by Ferguson – they talked falteringly about football and life and the future.
“My English is not so good,” Guardiola later said, “and when Sir Alex spoke quickly I sometimes had a problem to understand him. That’s why maybe I didn’t understand if I received an offer or not.”
t got a good laugh in the room at the time, but the truth was a little simpler and a little more complex. Ferguson had indeed identified Guardiola – whose Barcelona had demolished United in two of the previous four Champions League finals – as the leading candidate to succeed him after his retirement and was keen to gauge his interest.
But the plain reason no offer was made was because there was still no job to offer. Ferguson was yet to come to a decision or firm timescale on his own future. “I asked Pep to phone me before he accepted an offer from another club,” Ferguson wrote in his autobiography. “But he didn’t.”
As the months ticked by, United remained confident of securing Guardiola, but without much idea of how they were going to do it. The club’s chief executive at the time, David Gill – who was planning his own exit – and the owning Glazer family had essentially delegated responsibility for Ferguson’s replacement to Ferguson and were loth to force the issue. They did not know if Ferguson was going to quit, when he was going to quit, who his successor might be or how close they were to getting him. It feels almost incredible now that perhaps the most important decision in the club’s modern history was essentially taken in the dark.
Guardiola, for his part, had long since made up his mind. While Ferguson intended on making an appointment towards the end of the season, Guardiola wanted clarity much sooner. Bayern Munich had been in contact since the previous summer and had spent months diligently selling the project to him in exhaustive detail. Ferguson finally told the club of his intentions in the spring, by which point not only Guardiola but many of their other candidates were no longer available. The rest was history and not long afterwards so was the unfortunate David Moyes.
Before Sunday’s Manchester derby, United’s abortive pursuit of Guardiola remains the great “what if?”, a genuine crossroads moment in the story of these two clubs. It also feels particularly pertinent right now, as City chase a fourth Premier League title in his six years at the club and United contemplate a ninth successive season without a serious challenge.
The Guardiola dynasty may not rival Ferguson’s for longevity, but for a club that has always prided itself on thinking two moves ahead, the issue of what comes after him feels of a similar magnitude. How soon is too soon? How late is too late?
City has been Guardiola’s club since long before he arrived. It was in the autumn of 2012 they hired Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain with the long-term ambition of luring Guardiola one day. A sparkling new academy was unveiled in 2014. A line of communication was opened with the Guardiola camp even while he was still at Bayern. An informal partnership was established with Girona, the Spanish club part-owned by Guardiola’s brother, Pere. In many respects the entire organisation has been moulded around Guardiola’s vision for a decade. So what happens when he finally goes? What changes and what stays the same?
Pep Guardiola Previews Mammoth Premier League Clash With Manchester United
Pep Guardiola has admitted he knows the significance this weekend's Manchester derby has with the fans, as he previews facing Ralf Rangnick's Manchester United side on Sunday.
Manchester City currently hold a six-point lead at the top of the Premier League table, however, the Blues' nearest challengers, Liverpool have one game in hand and can cut the gap to three with victory against West Ham United on Saturday evening.
That means Sunday's Manchester derby may hold more significance than ever. And speaking in his pre-match press conference, Pep Guardiola has admitted he understands what it will mean to the fans.
"I know how important is a derby for our fans, at the end, we don't play to win the derbies. We play to win the Premier League. Nothing changes," the Catalan began.
"We know how good our opponent is. You have to win nearly all of your games. It's not for the pleasure to win. We win this game, in previous seasons we lost against United at home and won the Premier League.
Pep Guardiola admits Man City ‘definitely’ need a striker as club target summer
Pep Guardiola believes Manchester City need to sign a striker and that the club will try and do so in the summer, After Sergio Aguero left at the end of last summer, City made a big move to bring Harry Kane to the Etihad but were unable to reach an agreement with Tottenham.
They have not showed many signs of weakness this season though, topping the Premier League table and continuing their serene progress in the Champions League.
“But, I’m sorry, maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t agree with you. You say we play fantastically well without a striker because we are winning.
“When we are not winning, you say we need a striker, I’m naive. ‘How do these guys play without a striker? In the Premier League you have to play with a striker’.
“We try but sometimes it’s not possible. We need a striker, I think the club is going to try, it hasn’t happened but in the end we adapt. We adapt to the players and never complain, they are too good for me, I admire them and I like to work with them.
“If we have a striker, we play in a different way but if you don’t have it you have to adapt with the quality that we have. If you don’t have one you have to play in a completely different way to United, Southampton, Liverpool, because they play another philosophy.
“In England, we are little bit like an exception for that. We have to play in this way, otherwise they are better.”
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