Bayern is a great club, one of the best in the world. I know this team lives for titles and it's enormous motivation for me to now play alongside these extraordinary players in a team." Man City: Yaya Toure hasn't heard from Pep Guardiola since apology after fallout (03/2022): Toure had two spells working under Guardiola during his trophy-laden career, winning the Champions League together at Barcelona before reuniting at Man City in the top flight. Removing the wider context, Ibrahimovic wasn’t a terrible signing. He scored a respectable 16 goals in 29 La Liga appearances, including the only goal in a 1-0 win over Madrid. As he’s done pretty much everywhere, he won the league in his one and only season with the club. It has nothing to do with the fierce rivalry,” said Klopp. “I don’t know what you are trying to make of that. It’s not a fierce rivalry, we are just rivals. What is a fierce rival? Where do you see that, on the pitch in challenges?

And while it would be stretching matters to suggest they passed with flying colours, that the Reds have emerged unscathed from the toughest challenge of any season will provide confidence to Klopp’s side and send a message to their main rivals. Considering the opposition, Liverpool generally defended as well as you would expect as they kept their visitors at bay with the sort of play that saw them head into the weekend with the best defensive record in the Premier League. Asked again about Silva he said: “I want to work with guys who want to stay … but after that we have to get an offer … a proper offer. If they want him, they will take a plane, come here and talk with our sporting director, the CEO, to arrive at an agreement. Our winning form has continued for the remainder of the season under Guardiola's leadership, helping City lift our third consecutive Premier League title with three games remaining of the 2022/23 campaign. Guardiola, who has signed Mateo Kovacic but lost Ilkay Gündogan and Riyad Mahrez, said he wanted to keep Kyle Walker and Bernardo Silva. Bayern Munich are keen to sign Walker, and Silva is attracting interest from Barcelona and Saudi Arabia.Could Pep do it without Messi? Without Iniesta, Xavi and Busquets? Without his mother tongue? In another culture? In another league? How do you take over a treble-winning Bayern Munich side at the peak of its powers?

Highly rated from his time at Udinese, Barcelona fought off a lot of competition to get the Chilean’s signature in 2011. There were eyebrows raised when he decided to take over at Bayern Munich in 2013, particularly as they had just won the Champions League and domestic treble. Ruben Dias signs a new six-year contract at Manchester City (08/2021): The 24-year-old, who helped Pep Guardiola's side win the title and League Cup, was voted Football Writers' Player of the Year and UEFA Defender of the Season for 2020-21.He added: "I can't say thank you enough to everyone at the club for trusting me. I am happy and comfortable, and I have everything I need to do my job as best as possible. Under his very special leadership our first team has accomplished so much, whilst continuously playing, and constantly evolving, a City style of football that is admired the world over. The manager continues to take us to new heights as he led the Club to our first ever Super Cup victory in our debut appearance in the European showpiece.

Bernardo Silva caught the eye of Pep Guardiola during a tie between Monaco and City in the 2016/17 Champions League in which Monaco were victorious, partly thanks to the brilliance of Bernardo. Pep Guardiola calls on the power of prayer to close gap on Liverpool (12/2019): Pep Guardiola says Manchester City must pray they can close the gap on Liverpool next season after conceding the Premier League title to their rivals. Man City bolster coaching staff by securing Enzo Maresca to serve as Pep Guardio (06/2022): A deal has now been agreed for the 42-year old to return to City where he was in charge of the club's development squad in 2020. He replaces Juanma Lillo who has taken over as head coach at Al Sadd. He said: "Yeah. Maguire is an excellent, top-class player. We were interested, but we could not afford it. United afford it. He's an excellent player, national team too, he had an incredible World Cup.

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What can Pep Guardiola do to make sure Manchester City finally win the Champions (05/2021): The full-time whistle at the Estadio do Dragao on Saturday night signalled the end of Manchester City's Champions League dream - for now at least - and the start of a summer of soul-searching. However, for them, that was only one moment of significance that week. The conversations they were about to have would have an impact on the next two years of their lives. Diogo Jota was forced off with an injury as Klopp introduced the likes of Luis Diaz, Cody Gakpo, Harvey Elliott and Wataru Endo and if the Portuguese's issue is a problem, there could also be another concern to contend with as Alisson gingerly limped to the team coach after earlier pulling up in the closing stages of the match itself. They looked for a sensible option in the market, but also understood that this was a reinforcement needed to keep Guardiola’s fire burning.

Another fantastic acquisition by Pep Guardiola was the signing of Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson from Benfica in 2017. From the outside it looks like some sort of altercation or bust-up because why would Pep Guardiola risk that?The Spain international has provided additional control to the middle of the park, showcasing his excellent passing as well as intelligent reading of the game. Don’t forget, it was only in April that Guardiola was accused of being disrespectful after celebrating wildly a City goal in front of Kostas Tsimikas and Arthur Melo when Liverpool were last in town. Before that Liverpool match, Guardiola had agreed to give his players three days off, as they did not have a fixture until Brighton& Hove Albion’s visit the following weekend. However, only 256 minutes have been since domestic football returned after the World Cup, with him taken off at half-time at Chelsea. His other two starts were defeats at Manchester United in the Premier League and Southampton in the Carabao Cup.