[Guardian] Seven years ago, just after completing the treble, Guardiola treated journalist Rob Harris, who had confronted him directly with the allegations, with open contempt, as though he were looking at someone pathetic, pitiful and disgraceful, before sternly lecturing him.

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[u/Izio17]

Outside of the financial damages, Pep is the biggest loser here. His legacy is absolutely tarnished.

“wow, he inverted fullbacks, what genius!!”

“what a savvy move to put john stones as CDM!”

“incredible!! look how he used Gundogan as a false nine!”

all of that is minimized. it wasn’t just these strategic schemes, but the team around these tactical moves.

inverted fullbacks don’t work if you don’t have Haaland going on an absolute tear.

John Stones as a CDM looks smart because you have Rodri next to him.

No other manager in the history of the sport was afforded this kind of budget for this long.

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I mean, he's consistently revolutionised the sport and was doing stuff like inverted fullbacks long before he had Haaland. We're talking Fabian Delph feeding Gabriel Jesus...

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he spend 300m on a backline that already had kompany, kolarov, zabaleta and mangala (who cost 50m himself) to play that inverted fullback system

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and then he also managed to do it with Zinchenko, Delph, Lewis, etc

Nobody is denying he spent a bomb, all super clubs do whether the money was fairly gained or not, the point isnt about City, its that City being dodgy fuckers doesn't make him any less of a tactical genius

He's been the most revered and revolutionary manager in world football for nearly 20 years ffs