“It’s not going to happen. We are going to lose games - it belongs to Arsene Wenger and his amazing team.
“What is happening now is an exception. It’s not normal what we’ve done.
“We’ll try to maintain it, but we are going to lose games.”
-Pep Guardiola
I don't think Guardiola is blowing smoke. I think City are going to lose this year. It sounds preposterous to my ears and (obviously more importantly) to his ears.
City play at home to last year's runner-up, Tottenham, tomorrow and they are an absurd 11-20 favorite. Tottenham have been a disappointment domestically so far this season but have collected more points in the Champions League than any other club. They are a quality side and manager Mauricio Pochettino knows Guardiola from coaching against him in Spain. Knowledge did not lead to many favorable results, however and Pochettino is without his two best defenders tomorrow. I have no reasonable doubt that City will win tomorrow but if I were a betting man (and I am) I would unhesitatingly take Spurs' 5-1 odds rather than risk 20 £ to win 11. That is absurd.
I don't think Guardiola is blowing smoke because he is ruthlessly intelligent, boundlessly ambitious and knows with Voltaire that "The perfect is the enemy of the good." Of the excellent. Perfection is the enemy. Of trophies. That is what Guardiola wants and you get no trophies for joining Arsenal as a Premier League Invincible who crashes out of the Champions League against Celtic Vigo. He has already won the Premier League. Since he arrived in Manchester Guardiola has had his relentless focus trained on a trophy in the Champions League which City has never won. That was his charge from City Football Group. It insults the intelligence, the ambition, and the practicality of the man to think he would pursue the enemy of his job's goal. That is risking 20 for 11.
“What is happening now is an exception. It’s not normal what we’ve done.
“We’ll try to maintain it, but we are going to lose games.”
-Pep Guardiola
I don't think Guardiola is blowing smoke. I think City are going to lose this year. It sounds preposterous to my ears and (obviously more importantly) to his ears.
City play at home to last year's runner-up, Tottenham, tomorrow and they are an absurd 11-20 favorite. Tottenham have been a disappointment domestically so far this season but have collected more points in the Champions League than any other club. They are a quality side and manager Mauricio Pochettino knows Guardiola from coaching against him in Spain. Knowledge did not lead to many favorable results, however and Pochettino is without his two best defenders tomorrow. I have no reasonable doubt that City will win tomorrow but if I were a betting man (and I am) I would unhesitatingly take Spurs' 5-1 odds rather than risk 20 £ to win 11. That is absurd.
I don't think Guardiola is blowing smoke because he is ruthlessly intelligent, boundlessly ambitious and knows with Voltaire that "The perfect is the enemy of the good." Of the excellent. Perfection is the enemy. Of trophies. That is what Guardiola wants and you get no trophies for joining Arsenal as a Premier League Invincible who crashes out of the Champions League against Celtic Vigo. He has already won the Premier League. Since he arrived in Manchester Guardiola has had his relentless focus trained on a trophy in the Champions League which City has never won. That was his charge from City Football Group. It insults the intelligence, the ambition, and the practicality of the man to think he would pursue the enemy of his job's goal. That is risking 20 for 11.
