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When I was being taught the most I've probably learned as a journalist it was probably in the four years that Guardiola was at bus for it because we were given access and the players would talk and also it was a fierce hot environment if you didn't

learn something there as a journalist and you shouldn't have been in the game.

So I watch him close and I watched him at the end of last season because people have

high expectations of him at city and I try to see if I can understand,

because I'm not living in the same cities anymore,

so I try to understand a lot from the long chunks

of press conferences you get that are unedited.

And it doesn't always like answering the questions

that he's given in any country. He likes to talk about pure football and I thought

he was really revealing in May when he said he was asked about which Academy players were going to break through because there's this

desire that if you've got Guardiola there be a magic wand that there'll be a chavier and in the ester

or messy coming through even though their developed was nothing to do with him

their coronation was to do with him once he inherited them as a cause and he said really

clearly he said they're talented but they're uncompetitive because the league that they're talented but they're uncompetitive. Because the league that they're in,

he said there's no crowd,

it doesn't matter if they win or lose.

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