Pep Guardiola

[DonAK]

The only thing I see in that is a manager trying to motivate his own player and a very important one too which is actually a great thing to do AND something mosy manager in the entire world does. Not sure where the 'taking swipe at Barca players' suddenly came in from.

 

[Ryu Hayabusa]

They did play better but the game was completely changed by Arsenal going down to 10 men more so than Lahm.

Yeah, ofc. But it took a while from Arsenal's early onslaught dying away, red card, and Boateng being subbed off (that was when Lahm went back to holding midfield and not a minute before). The difference was still noticable and remarkable at that.

 

[JamDav1982]

Yeah, ofc. But it took a while from Arsenal's early onslaught dying away, red card, and Boateng being subbed off (that was when Lahm went back to holding midfield and not a minute before). The difference was still noticable and remarkable at that.

There was five minutes between the red card and Lahm going to midfield.

I do agree Lahm played well but Bayern would have dominated whoever was in there and the turn around in the game was due to the 10 men far more than anything else.

 

[DonAK]

Guardiola (coach Bayern): "Barcelona played fantastic yesterday, they continue to be a very good team." #fcblive #ucl [via rac1]

 

[DonAndres]

I don't understand why some people act like Pep is some sneaky asshole making calculated and hidden remarks or trying to play mindgames like how Mourinho does. A single sentence can be interpreted in a lot of ways, it's obvious how the people who dislike Pep the most are going to choose the most complicated interpretation to say that he suddenly hates Barcelona players. Not everything he says to motivate Bayern is to undermine Barca, it must suck being him knowing that the Bayern/Barca divide will follow him in the media throughout his tenure there and that he can't keep both sides happy.

 

[Irish_Cules]

Rafael Honigstein is saying that Wenger didn't shake Guardiola's hand before or after the game.

 

[Cule4life]

I don't understand why some people act like Pep is some sneaky asshole making calculated and hidden remarks or trying to play mindgames like how Mourinho does. A single sentence can be interpreted in a lot of ways, it's obvious how the people who dislike Pep the most are going to choose the most complicated interpretation to say that he suddenly hates Barcelona players. Not everything he says to motivate Bayern is to undermine Barca, it must suck being him knowing that the Bayern/Barca divide will follow him in the media throughout his tenure there and that he can't keep both sides happy.

Guardiola (coach Bayern): "Barcelona played fantastic yesterday, they continue to be a very good team." #fcblive #ucl [via rac1]

He's playing mindgames with us. By praising us he wants us to be complacent. That traitor!!!

 

[The Observer]

Sneaky asshole? It's perfectly possible that he's butthurt about something without being a sneaky asshole. I'm thinking about the rumours that he wanted to get rid of some big names like Pique. There are 5 million or more ways to praise your players without making a Barca reference. "I have seen" instead of "I have trained" would be one. If someone like Ancelotti said something like that - different story. He has coached multiple squads for decades and isn't strongly associated with a few certain players that he has coached. When Guardiola says that most people will clearly understand it as "Lahm is a more intelligent player than Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Messi" as those are the few important players he has "ever coached". What else?

Not that I'm strongly concerned. It was just a neutral question if he might be butthurt about something.

 

[ZenI]

Sneaky asshole? It's perfectly possible that he's butthurt about something without being a sneaky asshole. I'm thinking about the rumours that he wanted to get rid of some big names like Pique. There are 5 million or more ways to praise your players without making a Barca reference. "I have seen" instead of "I have trained" would be one. If someone like Ancelotti said something like that - different story. He has coached multiple squads for decades and isn't strongly associated with a few certain players that he has coached. When Guardiola says that most people will clearly understand it as "Lahm is a more intelligent player than Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Messi" as those are the few important players he has "ever coached". What else?

Not that I'm strongly concerned. It was just a neutral question if he might be butthurt about something.

Indeed. Maybe he didn't think it through, journalists just try to make you say something they can twist and turn. But honestly, I always thought of Pep as a bit of a psychopath - not the dangerous kind, but still weird as hell.

 

[Theconomist]

Lahm is the most intelligent player Guardiola has trained, thank god it's football and not nuclear physics

 

[Meitux]

Is it me or he just seems to mix his english with german a little bit? And then he gets confused

 

[The Observer]

There are many words in German that are the same or at least very similar in English, that's why I guess. Just look at this list for example: http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Verze...6rter_.28die_Schreibweise_ist_exakt_gleich.29

 

[hardyboy]

looking at his face in yesterdays game it felt like he is drinking a lot these days.

 

[hulinat]

Hope he returns to Barcelona some day.

 

[Catorce]

President Pep

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