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Mourinho Will Help Me At Man City, Says Guardiola July 8, 2016 by happymuba: 9:25pm On Jul 08, 2016 |
Pep Guardiola believes his rivalry with Jose Mourinho will
help push him on to achieve success at Manchester City.
The two managers were bitter foes when they were in
charge at Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid
respectively.
Now they have started work at the same time in
Manchester, with Guardiola taking over at City and
Mourinho returning to the Premier League as Manchester
United’s new manager.
And while playing down his past history with Mourinho,
Guardiola says taking on the former Real, Chelsea and Inter
Milan boss — as well as a clutch of other high-profile
overseas managers — will bring the best out of him.
Speaking to the media for the first time since leaving
Bayern Munich to replace Manuel Pellegrini as City boss on
a three-year contract, Guardiola said: “He wants to win, I
want to win.
“I can say like a coach they help me — the big coaches —
and Jose is one of them. They help me to reach another
level.
“We know each other pretty well from before, from
Barcelona. I think it is great that big managers are here, top
managers are here.
“My experience against him, against (Jurgen) Klopp at
Dortmund, they made me better. All the managers in the
world want to win.
“Big managers take me as a manager to a different level.
Competing with them takes me to the next level.
“They push me to try and win the league, win the cup,
win the Champions League and then you find out if you
are big enough, capable enough to win with teams like
Bayern, like Barcelona, like Manchester City.”
Guardiola, 45, was twice a Champions League winner as
Barcelona coach and, after winning three league titles in
Spain, also led Bayern Munich to a hat-trick of Bundesliga
successes.
But he believes imposing his style of eye-catching, passing
football on the Premier League and winning honours
domestically and in Europe with City could be his toughest
test yet after the 2013 champions finished fourth in the
league last season under Pellegrini.
‘Prove myself’
Guardiola added, “That is why I am here, to prove, to
prove myself, that I am able to do that. I feel this is the
right moment to come here and prove myself to play the
way I want.
“Every stage is a big challenge. It could be the biggest
because City have not won as many titles as Barcelona or
Bayern, but I can’t answer.
“Maybe when I took over the second team from Barcelona
it was the hardest because I felt in that moment my career
would be finished.
“At Barcelona and Bayern Munich, we have to win every
day and every day. I see how difficult it is in England to
find a team to win four, five, six games in a row. It is not
easy.
“All the people talk about that. Maybe that is the challenge,
to try to be more consistent in our game.
“I think in my career people are always going to demand
of my teams the way they are going to train, to try and
win the maximum as possible. But in the end that is good.
It is better to live under that pressure.”
Guardiola has so far signed three players in midfielders
Ilkay Gundogan and Oleksandr Zinchenko and forward
Nolito and admitted he is keen to strengthen his squad
further.
The City boss has been linked with moves for defenders
John Stones, of Everton, and Juventus and Italy star
Leonardo Bonucci.
But he hopes club captain Vincent Kompany will overcome
the injury problems that have dogged him in recent
seasons to remain a key part of his plans.
“My dream for Vincent Kompany is to be fit,” Guardiola
said. “The captain has a lot of experience and is a
magnificent centre-back, but of course he has to be fit.
“We spoke to him and said ‘just focus on your body and
come back to what you were in the past’. Vincent will
show his qualities.” |
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