Pep Guardiola presented to Manchester City fans.
New Manchester City manager Pep
Guardiola has no intention of ditching the methods that brought him
success in Spain and Germany and wants to prove it is possible to win in
the Premier League by playing attractive football.
Guardiola won two Champions League trophies, three La Liga titles and
two King's Cup crowns as Barcelona coach before two domestic doubles
followed at Bayern Munich.
He took over at City from Manuel Pellegrini, who guided the club to
one Premier League title and two (Capital One) League Cups in his three
years in charge.
“I have no preconceptions at all about coming to England or the
football in the Premier League. I want to learn as much as possible," he
said in an interview on CityTV on Sunday.
"I have an idea of how we will play, but when I arrived in Germany
with Bayern Munich, I had some ideas of how the team would play but
changed them as I went along.
“I know how hard the Premier League is and some people have said that
I will find it hard to play the football I like to play in England, so I
said to myself, ‘Why not?’ That’s why I’m here - because I want to
try,'" he added.
Guardiola will take his first training session on Monday as he
prepares for his City debut against Bayern on July 20 at the Allianz
Arena before taking his new squad to Asia for their pre-season tour and
he was fully aware of the task ahead of him.
"We have to find a way to win and if we win one game, the next week
we will say, ‘OK, let’s try and do the same things this week’ – and if
we win again, we’ll say, ‘let’s do the things that won us those two
games’ and so on," he said.
“I’ve been told it will be hard to do that in the Premier League but
we did it at Barcelona and Bayern Munich and people may say, ‘Yes,
that’s because it was Barcelona and Bayern – it won’t be possible to do
that in England’ and I just say OK, let’s try."
Guardiola was earlier presented to about 7,000 City fans at the
Etihad Stadium where he conducted a question and answer session and was
asked if he would sign Lionel Messi.
The Spaniard replied: "He's not a bad player this guy. Messi has to stay in Barcelona for the rest of his career."
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