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“Més que un entrenador” – “More Than A Coach”.
Money can’t currently fix the problem going around at Manchester City. No Ballon d’Or winner Rodri and the absence of other key players has derailed City’s title defense well before the end of the year, and to such an effect that City fans are now attempting to resuscitate the spirit of Guardiola by reframing the ‘es que un club’ Catalan message that adorns the halls of Barcelona FC, the club where Guardiola first built himself up as a coach extraordinaire.
Despite that banner unfurled at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday, City fell to two late Manchester United goals and slumped to their eighth defeat in eleven games – one of the lowest spells seen by Guardiola as a manager in his career.
“Today we have to win. I’m the boss, I’m the manager and I’m not good enough. I have to find solutions and so far I haven’t. That’s the reality. I want it, desperately. But eight out of 11? I’m here to try and will try again and again. That is the reality.
“In a big club, when you lose eight in 11 something wrong is happening. I can say the schedule is tough, with injuries to players but 3-0 against Feyenoord [after 74 minutes] and we draw the game. Is it injuries or the schedule? No,” said Guardiola according to the Guardian.
The City boss was then asked if he had run out of the ‘magic’ that had made him a successful manager – a stunning question to a manager that indirectly influences how football is being currently played.
“I didn’t have energy or magic before. I was no magician. You never saw me here when we won and I said: ‘I am a magician.’”
City next have three games before the end of the year, with matches against Aston Villa, Everton and Leicester City.
