Pep Guardiola, Manager of Manchester City, grazed Fabio Capello’s destructive attack on his character and coaching career aside and offered the spiky Italian experts a “great hug”.
Capello, whose glittering management office won him several titles in Italy and Spain before taking over the English men’s national team in 2007, launched in a fearsome and largely unsolicited Tirade against Guardiola last week.
The legendary head coach complained about Guardiola’s “arrogance” and insisted that he “always wanted to be the protagonist” beyond his players. Capello accused the transformative city boss of having caused “football”, especially in Serie A, “enormous damage” by inspired a long series of disciples who try to implement his football style in possession, but instead to create “a hole” that forces the fans to see only highlights.
When Guardiola was asked about this incredible verbal attack on Friday at a press conference, the city chief grinned. “I listen to everything people say about me, so be careful,” he said, pointing to the questioner and his eye, who had a mischievous shimmer.
“It is not the first time that Mr. Fabio Capello said that,” Guardiola continued. “I’m not good enough to ruin Italian football. It is very important. A great hug for Fabio.”
As Guardiola emphasized, this was not the first splitter cap in. In December, the former manager of Milan and Real Madrid described his Spanish counterpart “far too arrogant and powerful”. “Sometimes he even lost trophies because he wanted to prove that he was the one who won and not the players, so he let important figures fall off the side in the big games. In my opinion, he was an attempt to take the lamp and loan away from his squad.”
The topic of “rethinking” was a painful point for Guardiola. The omission of Fernandinho and Rodri from the final of the Champions League 2021 – lost the city against Chelsea – serves as the blatant example of a surprising tactical decision that flowed back.
Of course, this idea is overlooking that Guardiola’s tinkering is completely destructive, the multitude of games that were obtained by its ingenuity, a fact that the Catalan trainer has sarcastic in the past. Before his team Real Madrid was hosting in the semi -finals of the Champions League 2022, Wildauging Guardiola said to report: “I rethink a lot, so I have very good results.”