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Bielsa finds support in Guardiola over spygate affair

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Marcelo Bielsa has found support in Pep Guardiola after his spygate controversy escalated when the Leeds manager responded in a stunning yet poor show of class manner once again to the accusations thrown at him.

Guardiola however, still respects the work ethic of Bielsa, as everyone should.

“In other countries, everybody does that,” Guardiola said of spying ahead of City’s meeting with Huddersfield on Sunday. “It is the culture of the clubs. It was part of the club. Not because you said, ‘You have to do it’. It is the leagues. When we were training at Bayern Munich, there were people in the little mountains with cameras and the opponent was watching what we did. Everybody did it. (But) I am not going to send anyone to spy on Huddersfield!”

Questioned if he felt the culture was different in England, Guardiola said: “I don’t know. It is more difficult (to do here). It (training) is private. It is closed. But in all the countries I have been before, everybody does it. Barcelona was a bunker – it was impossible to look at us, like it is here [at City], but that story is true,” Guardiola said. “I didn’t see the whole press conference (from Bielsa) but I saw the highlights.”

“My respect (for him) remains the same. He was clear in his statement. I admired what he did in the past. Why should I change my opinion? I know him a little bit. My opinion remains the same. I understand (Derby manager) Frank Lampard’s position too. No manager has the amount of information he (Bielsa) produces for every single game, for every single player and every single movement. It is unique what he does.”

Bielsa definitely is unique in terms of work effort put in but might be unique as well in terms of work ethic if he believes his hard work otherwise should pardon him from performing a clearly unethical task of spying on his opponents.

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