“Pep knows how to adapt and he’ll adapt to the Premier League”.
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Guardiola relishes a challenge, though, and deep down he’ll know if he can out-gun Mourinho, the title is effectively City’s to lose.
The managerial duo endured a testing relationship when in charge of Real Madrid and Barcelona, and the pair will renew rivalries when Mourinho’s Manchester United host Guardiola’s City at Old Trafford in the Premier League on Saturday. “Mikel Arteta is only going to speed up that process”, Iniesta was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail on Tuesday.
Alonso, who worked with Mourinho at Madrid and Guardiola at Bayern Munich, says the two are very similar and believes working with either of them is a massive boost to any player. I know Nolito very well because he was with me at Barcelona and he’s a teammate with Spain.
Varane’s future had been a source of speculation during the summer months after he was limited to just 23 La Liga starts for Los Blancos last season.
“If he continues to play like he has done in the first few games I think they’ve found an absolute gem”.
In his latest interview, Khedira expressed his gratitude for Schweinsteiger who influenced him largely during 2010 world cup: “I never want to be in the position where a club asks me to leave”.
“The team looks really strong in every department now, I think the manager’s strengthened in good areas with top-quality players and the rest of the team are raising their standards to join them”, said the former United winger. But we won’t be playing for a draw.
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“There was coming out with the ball using the centre backs or with the full backs, then there was the tactic of dropping the holding midfielder between the central defenders. But Pep changed that; he told me to be much higher up the pitch to be ready for the next phase of play”.
