![]() ![]() ![]() This was a house built and waiting for Guardiola to take occupancy. When Pep Guardiola's appointment at Manchester City was confirmed on 1 February 2016 - shortly after Manuel Pellegrini announced his departure - it was the perfect fit for the ambitious plans plotted by the club's Abu Dhabi-based owners. Guardiola learned lessons of tough first season Manchester City lost to Monaco in the Champions League last 16 in Pep Guardiola's first season English game 'grateful' for Guardiola - Lineker.Vote result: Are Man City the best Premier League champions ever?.So how has Guardiola transformed a first league season that was regarded as a relative disappointment into one of triumph the following year? Europe's elite competition is regarded as the Holy Grail by the club's hierarchy - but in a Premier League context they have been the untouchables.Īll that remains is whether City can eclipse Manchester United's record Premier League-winning margin of 18 points over Arsenal in 1999-2000 to cap a spectacular title campaign. Guardiola has been helped, of course, by Manchester City's spending power but it must not be ignored that rivals such as United, Chelsea and Liverpool have hardly had chequebooks that were gathering dust.Ĭity and Guardiola suffered the pain of Champions League defeat as they lost convincingly 5-1 over two legs to Liverpool in the quarter-finals. ![]() It has been an impressive feat of management by Guardiola to turn a 15-point deficit to deposed champions Chelsea last season into a runaway triumph. ![]()
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