Tag: Pep Guardiola

10 Craziest LaLiga Press Conference Meltdowns of All Time
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10 Craziest LaLiga Press Conference Meltdowns of All Time

Football managers are paid to control chaos. They are supposed to absorb the pressure, protect their players, answer uncomfortable questions and maintain a sense of authority even when everything around them is falling apart. Sometimes, however, the people sitting in the dugout have a breaking point. LaLiga has produced some of the most colourful managerial personalities in football history, and its press rooms have occasionally provided an even better spectacle than the action on the pitch. From personal vendettas and accusations of institutional conspiracies to spectacular refusals to answer questions, Spanish football has never been short of managers willing to tell the media exactly what they think. Some of these moments were calculated. Others were spontaneous. A few became s...
Pep Guardiola’s legacy has been shattered by the Manchester City verdict
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Pep Guardiola’s legacy has been shattered by the Manchester City verdict

Pep Guardiola will always be looked at as one of the greatest managers of all time, and even if you can't stand the guy, I think it's impossible to take at least that from him. Because Guardiola not only won too much consistently throughout his career to be anything less than a great manager, but he really did change the game in terms of how teams approach possession, movement off the ball, and dominance. In a lot of ways, he set the stage for how clubs in Spain, Germany, and now England play, especially the biggest clubs in the world like Bayern Munich. At the same time, Guardiola's legacy always came with a bit of an asterisk. See, unlike the coaches he often gets compared to in debates about the greatest modern manager, namely Jose Mourinho and Jurgen Klopp, he never actually built a...