Guardiola, the subject of fresh speculation linking him with Manchester City this week, brought in Mehdi Benatia and Javi Martinez from the 4-0 Champions League win over Olympiacos and saw the pair assist a goal apiece.
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On the comparison between the triple-winning team of 2013 and the current team- (Pep recently made a comment that the team is now what he envisioned)I see it in a positive light, we have almost all the players on board, the internal competition is big, which helps the team, because nobody can lean back and rest.
Guardiola, 44, is in the final season of his three-year contract with Bayern and has been linked in the media with a move to England. However, with Guardiola just as likely to stay at Bayern Munich for a massive raise or join a more historic club like Real Madrid or Chelsea, the Citizens might spend all of their effort for nothing.
The club has been gripped by Pep-mania for months, with the Spaniard’s planned arrival next summer the talk of City’s offices and training ground. “They come and they go at one point”.
Rummenigge was a chief architect of the Financial Fair Play Regulations that City believe have been designed only to protect the status quo in European football.
That leaves them four points adrift of safety, a position now occupied by Werder Bremen after their 3-1 defeat at home to Hamburg in the Northern Germany derby.
On Saturday Guardiola pointedly ignored questions about his future.
The visitors started the game with a rather defensive mindset, playing quite deep into their half, but Pep Guardiola’s side pressed for the early goal and were looking good in the opening exchanges.
The club also announced that the supervisory board of Bayern had been unanimously re-elected by the shareholders, including chairman Karl Hopfner, who stated: “We will continue to perform our duties constructively and faithfully for the benefit of FC Bayern”.
And he also failed to show for the press conference in the build-up to yesterday’s game against Hertha Berlin.
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He accepts he can do little about it with the two former Barca executives now at City, Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain, always lending substance to the conjecture by their mere presence at the club.
