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Looking at Pep Guardiola's career from a certain perspective, the over hype around his figure has maybe been a little too much too soon. When he first started managing Barcelona, he was lucky to coach a club with some of the best players in Spanish football history and arguably the best player in football history which is Leo Messi. Then at Bayern Munich he wasn't able to perform at the same level as Barcelona, he did win three consecutive Bundesliga titles but wasn't able to accomplish anything on a continental level.
Talking to Omnisport, Schmeichel said: "He was okay at Bayern Munich. I have to say he was okay. For me, personally, he changed a really good, entertaining team to be become more boring to watch. Whereas Bayern before were very direct, they won the treble, had quick players and were exciting to watch, he [Guardiola] made them play more square. He changed the players, but you can't argue with his results."
He then proceeded to criticize Guardiola's style based on possession: "With Pep, he comes in with an incredible reputation. What he did with Barcelona was fantastic, his work was fantastic, but he was also very lucky he had the players to bring in the philosophy that he has in football. So whereas [former United manager] Alex Ferguson's first priority was 'we have to be able to score goals' - for most coaches that's the priority - with Pep it's possession, I want to have as much possession as possible.
"So the philosophy goes to 'I want to have so much possession that at some point we'll score a goal from that, the goals will come from possession' and that's his philosophy. That's what we'll see at Manchester City or he's going to introduce that. He was very lucky he had the players at Barcelona but he was clever in what he did. The Premier League is a completely different animal to any other in the world. It just goes on and on and on, you feel it never stops, even in March you have 12 games to go, you think will this ever stop?"
Photo credit: Manchester City FC
