#Pep Guardiola

#Pep Guardiola

Arsenal are going very strong on all fronts this season. In the Premier League, they top the rankings by seven points ahead of second-place Manchester City. City boss Pep Guardiola believes the Gunners, under the leadership of his former assistant Mikel Arteta, are the best team in the world at the moment.

Michael Carrick will be in the home dugout on Saturday aiming to cause a surprise on his return to Manchester United. Carrick has taken over as the club's interim head coach until the end of the season following the sacking of Ruben Amorim on January 5. The former United midfielder could scarcely have asked for a more difficult first test than the visit of Manchester City.

Manchester City are interested in signing Dro Fernandez from Barcelona in the January transfer window, according to . The report in the Spanish news outlet has claimed that Fernandez has already told Barcelona that he wants to leave midway through the season, with Man City among the clubs keen on a deal. The report has claimed that Man City manager Pep Guardiola has personally told the club to make a move for Fernandez.

Not only did City manager Guardiola not agree with that decision, but he feels the Norwegian is being singled out too often. "He is the only striker in the world that makes more fouls than defenders do on him," Guardiola said. "That is his biggest attribute. That is really good. He is only the striker in my life that makes more fouls to defenders than defenders to him. I've never seen this."

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The Negreira case has been making a lot of noise in Spanish football spheres, with the matter involving Barcelona's payments to Jose Enriquez Negreira during his time as the vice president of the Referees' Technical Committee (CTA) being currently investigated in courts. Barcelona maintain that the payments, handed out between 2001 and 2018, were made in exchange for reports on referees and scouting reports, and there has been no evidence of any wrongdoing.

I already played a lot on the wing, although I drifted centrally, and he put me in the middle. That position suited me perfectly. Working with him was on another level, because he already knew everything the other team was going to do, he had everything prepared, and things just fell into place during the match. It's another level.

No-one has played more games under Pep Guardiola than Bernardo Silva. Silva has been picked more than 400 times by Manchester City manager Guardiola, who signed the Portugal midfielder in 2017. They have won six Premier League titles together, while Silva has also won the Nations League title twice. Silva sat down with Kelly Somers to talk about what it is like to play under Guardiola, his standout matches, and his dream of winning the World Cup.

Soon after Pep Guardiola tempted Xabi Alonso away from Real Madrid to instal him as Bayern Munich's midfield general in August 2014, the Catalan coach admitted that "if I can help a player of mine become a coach, by adding something to his development, I'll be happy. Johan Cruyff and others did that for me, and now it's my obligation to pay it forward."

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has responded to Arsenal dropping points in the Premier League title race today with their 2-1 defeat against Aston Villa. Emi Buendia struck a stoppage time winner for Unai Emery's side as they dealt the Gunners only their second defeat of the entire season. Meanwhile, Man City responded with a 3-0 win at home to Sunderland later this afternoon, closing the gap to just two points.