Pep Guardiola, a Spanish professional football manager and a player who currently manages Manchester City in the Premiere Leageue. He is not well known for his playing career but has achieved terrific records in his managing career. He took over Barcelona in his first senior level management career and he won the treble in his first season and went on to win 6 trophies in a single season - A record which is yet to be broken by an European club. He had a team of young Messi,Iniest and Xavi, These players contributed a vital role in their treble winning season. He won 14 trophies with Barcelona and ended his career on 2012.
After managing Barcelona, he decided to take up the managerial challenge on Germnay, The german giants- Bayern Munich. He managed them for three years and won three league titles with two domestic double. Unfortunately, he could not reach champions league finals with Bayern. He managed them till semi-finals and failed to secure a spot in the finals. Later, he decided to take up a new challenge on the England's Premiere League. He was appointed as new manager for Manchester City. By the time he arrived Manchester City have secure only two league titles and were rated as mid-table club, struggling for top 4 club but they were emerging to be one of the biggest clubs in Europe and they made a right choice to appoint pep as manager at the right time.
In his first season at Manchester City, he managed to secure a top 4 spot in the league. Often, Pep has been criticised for spending a lot of money in the transfer window and yet to prove in the European competitions. does pep not have a tactical mind that can win european competitions, or he won champions league only because of Messi? Pep has spent more than 700m in transfer window during his four years in Manchester City and they were accused of not following Football Fair Play rules. As a result of the accusations they were charged with a hefty fine amount, Ban from European competitions for two years and depromotion to league 1. But, with the help of their lawyers, they managed to avoid the ban and promotion and they have to pay a fine amount for breaching the Football fair play rules.
Is pep the only manager who spends more money in transfer window? ofcourse not. There are clubswho have spent more than pep did in the transfer window or slightly less than him and failed to secure a European cup or even a domestic cup. Barcelona, A club has secured to reach finals of the champions league since 2015. They sold neymar for a record transfer of 222 million to PSG, since then they are trying to fill that positions with numerous signings, they bough Dembele from Dortmund for 105 million who has spent more days on hospitals than on training pitch. Barcelona's legend Xavi and Iniesta retired and they tried to fill the position with the signing of Coutinho from Liverpool for record fee of 145 million. I don't think many people would remember that Lucas Digne, Yerry Mina, Gomes, Pauliho were once played for Barcelona. Cant imagine how much money they are gonna to fill the void of Suarez, Busquets, Jordi alba, Pique and their clubs legend Messi.
PSG have spent nearly 400m on tree transfers, Neymar, Mbappe and Di Maria and they secured the champions league final spot last year only. Manchester United, another big club in England. They have spent more than 800 million since Alex Ferguson left. They are yet to win a premiere league title and still struggling to secure champions league spot in the league for successive seasons. Unlike these clubs, Pep has spent money on the transfer window and won trophies with the club. he set the record for the first team to achieve 100 points in the league, domestic quadruple, 198 points in two successive seasons and scoring 100+ goals in a season in the league. He won two premiere league, two league cups and fa cup with the club.
Pep may have spent more money on players but he is known for reforming a player into world class player like Kevin de Bryne, Raheem Sterling, Kyle walker etc. He also won trophies with the club. He is a bit unfortunate in the European competition and soon he can achieve that as well. If he should be critised for not winning tropihes then every other clubs should be blamed for it.
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