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Pep Guardiola on IMPROVING Manchester City!

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“I don’t know but I’m pretty sure we know each other better than before because we are seven or eight months together,” says Guardiola. “And I think next season will be better than now. From the beginning I have been happy to work with them because they put everything into it. They are good guys, I love to work with them, that is what I like the most. I like how they celebrate the goals and how sad they are when they don’t win.”

He adds: “Football is not a process where you can think, ‘Oh, that’s done.’ Always you can improve; individually and as a team. As a team and as a club; the relationship with the community in Manchester. With many, many things you can improve. That’s why it is nice, it would be boring if you believed it had already been done.”

Do you know why? It’s because we won,” Guardiola says. “Do you think they are going to write books about the losers? It would be nice to read a book about why they are losers, sometimes it’s more interesting. They wrote the books and made the documentaries because we won. And we won because it was with huge teams like Barcelona and Bayern Munich. Believe me, all the managers at this level – here in the Premier League – they are all good. I haven’t seen anything here with the managers that is not good. All of them are top.”

“When I arrived in Barcelona the expectation was not high. 95 per cent of the people didn’t want me,” he explains. “And I know what happened in the beginning was tough, the people killed me, they didn’t give me a chance to show what was good. The people in Barcelona say how beautiful they are with me now, but they are nice with me because we won. In that job if you don’t win nobody survives.

“People talk to me nicely because I won not because I am better than the other ones. So the critics can be ready because sometimes I am not going to win. How can I handle that? Don’t read too much, don’t think too much about that, otherwise I would not sleep at night. Just think about what we did in the last game and what we can do in the next game to be better. That is the only way to survive in that world. If you thought about failing the illusions of the people and the players, wow, that would be tough to survive thinking like that.”

 “When I have a week or 10 days I am able to switch off, before it was a little bit difficult but now I am a little bit more experienced. At Barcelona it was not easy to take time, it was a huge mistake not to do that. But now I have my time. If I say, ‘I’m not ready, I’m tired’, I will take a day off and when I have my energy again it’s enough that I will work more hours. I think I can control it better now, but that’s normal, I’m more experienced now.””I like to work on the pitch, I like to be in my office to prepare for the games. I like to see before the games what our plan is. When it works it’s fascinating, when it doesn’t work it’s a little bit sad, but we look at how we can improve. I like to look at our profession and say, ‘We are at this point, what can we do to get better and better and better?’ If I didn’t do that I don’t know why I would be here.”

He says: “It’s so important. Because the way is the reason why you want to win the games. Every manager has his own way. I’m not saying my way is the right way, but every manager has a way of winning.”

“Sometimes you are there moving the hands and shouting because your stress is there. You have to put out your stress in that moment. I like to be involved. I would like sometimes to be more calm and more relaxed. But the people have to understand I am a Latin guy, from Catalonia. And there, for 10 or 11 months of the year, it is sunny days so that’s why you have the energy! It’s what it is, nothing is perfect. Normally your energy can help you win but if it makes you lose that is not good.”

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