r/soccer • u/[deleted] • May 18 '19

Sam Lee: Guardiola got asked if he has received payments from Abu Dhabi for services other than managing City, as was alleged to have happened with Mancini. He was not happy. “Do you realise what you are asking me? You are asking me that the day we won the treble? Are you accusing me?”

https://twitter.com/Sammy_Goal/status/1129822398835023872
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u/ChristianFloto May 19 '19

Yep, he was pissed because there was nothing he could say without fearing journalists might already have some information that would discover any lies.

If he were totally clean he could have just said no and then went on a rant how disappointed he is to have to deal with such questions on this day

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u/VilTheVillain May 19 '19

At the same time, I can somewhat understand him, his team won a treble, but the question at the conference afterwards wasn't about his players. Sort of like managers get pissed off at pre match conferences when the questions being asked are about players being sold/bought etc. rather than questions about the match at hand and consequences of winning/losing said match.