“You’re going to get me in trouble” – Ederson offers honest inside assessment of Pep Guardiola during interview | OneFootball

Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson has offered an honest insider assessment of the real Pep Guardiola that supporters do not see on the touchlines every week.

The pair have worked extremely closely during a hugely successful period together at Manchester City, having first been placed together in the Etihad Stadium dressing room in the summer of 2017.

Across the course of their seven full seasons together in Manchester thus far, the pair have worked on a total of six Premier League title successes in that time, as well as a maiden UEFA Champions League honour as part of a historic Treble.

As such, Ederson is in a primary position to be able to offer insight into what it is like working with the legendary coach, and what Pep Guardiola is particularly like in terms of personality on and off the pitch.

Asked during an interview for Children’s Day in Brazil, the Manchester City goalkeeper was this week asked by one child whether the Etihad Stadium head coach is ‘nice, annoying, or angry’.

“You’re going to get me in trouble,” Ederson told ESPN Brasil. “He’s all three. He’s a nice guy, he’s sometimes annoying, in the sense of [being] demanding, because he has to [be] demanding to a professional [player], and he’s also angry when he has to be angry.”

The 31-year-old continued, “So he has a mixture of all three. But he’s a nice guy off the pitch, and he’s a very, very demanding guy on it. And he’s also a guy who gets angry like any other person, like any other coach, when things don’t go well, when the team doesn’t play well.

“Of course, we know that we’re not going to be able to play 70 games at a brilliant level, of course, in one game or another, there’s going to be a dip.”

Ederson is currently part of the Brazil side competing for a place at the next edition of the FIFA World Cup, with the qualification process currently underway in South and North America, with his side having come from behind to defeat Chile earlier this week.

Manchester City will return to action next weekend as they travel to Wolves in the Premier League, hoping to maintain their unbeaten start to the new season by defeating a struggling Molineux outfit coached by Gary O’Neil.