Manchester City are like a machine now.
I started this sentence "They are as relentless and as ruthless..." and then erased, for those are emotions and machines of course are emotionless. City now knows neither relentlessness nor carefreeness, neither ruthlessness nor casualness. City just are.
We are only five games into the EPL season, City have played only seven matches that count under Pep Guardiola. They are seven for seven. They already lead the league by five points and six goals.
I made a mental note of something I read about Pep Guardiola, oh, maybe a month ago, he said that when he game up through Barcelona's youth system, it was ingrained in all of the players that a loss was simply unacceptable. Any loss, to anyone under any circumstances. Unthinkable, really. You never thought of it beforehand. When it happened, as it inevitably did, it was not considered to be inevitable. When it happened, YOU had FAILED. You were at fault.
And the key syllogistic conclusion there is: "There is nothing inevitable about failure." You are in total control. You didn't lose because the other team played better; you lost because you were at fault, fault is inexcusable, therefore failure is inexcusable, losses are not inevitable, losses are unacceptable. And you're back at the beginning again.
I started this sentence "They are as relentless and as ruthless..." and then erased, for those are emotions and machines of course are emotionless. City now knows neither relentlessness nor carefreeness, neither ruthlessness nor casualness. City just are.
We are only five games into the EPL season, City have played only seven matches that count under Pep Guardiola. They are seven for seven. They already lead the league by five points and six goals.
I made a mental note of something I read about Pep Guardiola, oh, maybe a month ago, he said that when he game up through Barcelona's youth system, it was ingrained in all of the players that a loss was simply unacceptable. Any loss, to anyone under any circumstances. Unthinkable, really. You never thought of it beforehand. When it happened, as it inevitably did, it was not considered to be inevitable. When it happened, YOU had FAILED. You were at fault.
And the key syllogistic conclusion there is: "There is nothing inevitable about failure." You are in total control. You didn't lose because the other team played better; you lost because you were at fault, fault is inexcusable, therefore failure is inexcusable, losses are not inevitable, losses are unacceptable. And you're back at the beginning again.
