👀 Pep after a trophyless season: "Barcelona or Real would have sacked me" | OneFootball

It was a season with which not only the fans at Manchester City were extremely dissatisfied. Only third place in the table, and in the end a full 13 points behind champions Liverpool.

In an interview with 'DAZN', City coach Pep Guardiola also showed himself to be extremely disappointed and expressed harsh self-criticism: “I was always able to turn things around when they weren’t going well – but this year I wasn’t able to do that.”

Although the season did not go as the Skyblues had initially imagined, Guardiola’s contract was extended until 2027 in the middle of the season. A scenario the coach himself could never have imagined during his time in Spain: “If we had had this season in Spain, I would no longer have been coach by October, November, or December. Barcelona or Real Madrid would have fired me, but here that was never even up for discussion,” said the 54-year-old.

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The Spaniard supports the club’s decision to stand by him and draws comparisons to Ancelotti: One should have a bit more patience; Ancelotti, too, only recently won the Champions League and the league, and now coaches the Brazilian national team, Guardiola is quoted as saying in the interview.

Good things take time, even in England.

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