Quotes About Guardiola

Guardiola is a good manager, everyone knows that.

I think Jurgen Klopp is doing a great job at Liveprool. The style of play is the opposite of Guardiola.

Guardiola has never been a great player; he was just a good player.

A great coach like Guardiola and a great team like City... I would develop a lot with them.

Guardiola has helped me so when I receive the ball, I have space.

Any coach in my era will reference or look at Guardiola's teams. If you look at the style of play, he has had a huge influence on football. And he has innovated it again.

Pep Guardiola, when he was at Bayern Munich, he was able to reply in German in his first press conference.

I signed for City in 2013 but I've never met Pep Guardiola or any of the first-team players.

I am grateful to Guardiola for showing his interest and I hope in the future I can learn from him.

Guardiola improved me a lot as a footballer. He taught me a lot of things, and that's why, in every interview I'm asked, I always say the same thing: He is the best manager that I have worked with.

To be trained by Guardiola and learn from the best, you cannot say no.

Obviously, Guardiola is a great coach. It's what I expected from the beginning. His style has always been there. It has little small changes every now and then because I think he also wants to evolve as a trainer by trying new things to get better.

In Germany, we laugh at it. Mourinho just selects a topic to moan about - transfers, team preparation, a rival coach. But Pep Guardiola wants it all to be about the performance of his team. He's obsessed by possession, like at Bayern Munich, and will not compromise on that at Manchester City.

Pep is not the best coach in the world. I prefer Mourinho. He is the No.1, because Mourinho is more transparent and more direct than Guardiola.

Guardiola is a great manager, but I chose to join another great manager, Mourinho, at United.

It's a fact that Guardiola is joining Manchester City, and we have to respect that. But there is no truth in the rumours saying I will follow him.

Guardiola won so many trophies at Barcelona that he had a huge impact.

Guardiola took the decision to not play me in the DFB-Pokal final. He did not want me to win the trophy as top scorer, so he did not let me play during the end of the season. It was not really so important for me, but I felt it was a lack of respect towards me.

The players love Guardiola's methods and it shows on the pitch. I think every player would like to work with him.

It is an honour that a coach like Guardiola speaks highly of me, for him to rate me as highly as I have read that he does. I genuinely appreciate it - from the bottom of my heart.

The recognition and praise from Guardiola, a coach so important to world football, is spectacular.

What Guardiola has done as coach of Barcelona is really spectacular.

Guardiola has a lot of knowledge about the game and understands the psychology of the players. You can see all the things he is doing well.

In 2007, Barca B were demoted from the Tercera to the Cuarta Division and I was among the players who wanted to leave. Then Guardiola arrived and he wanted to play with wingers that were spread out across the pitch and he gave me an opportunity.