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'Genius' - new Leeds boss Sam Allardyce has an unexpected ally in Man City manager Pep Guardiola
05.05.2023 - 07:33 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
They might be at perceived polar ends of the football spectrum but a healthy mutual respect exists between new Leeds United manager Sam Allardyce and Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola.
The latter is trying to guide the Blues to a Treble this season ahead of the final few weeks of the campaign while Big Sam has been parachuted into Elland Road to try and ensure Leeds beat the drop over the final four games.
The Yorkshire club are outside the bottom three on goal difference and in a battle with Leicester City, Nottingham Forest, Everton and the seemingly doomed Southampton to avoid the drop into the Championship. The Whites axed boss Javi Gracia in the wake of a 4-1 thumping at Bournemouth on Saturday with the Spaniard lasting less than three months at Elland Road.
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It heralded the return of Allardyce, who has been out of football since suffering relegation while at West Brom in 2021. His first test is a monumental one against City on Saturday and it will bring him face to face with Guardiola, a player he tried to sign while at Bolton and a manager who once labelled the one-time England boss a 'genius'.
That high praise came just over two years ago ahead of City's game with the Baggies, where Allardyce was attempting to engineer another relegation escape.
Speaking ahead of what turned out to be a 5-0 City win, Guardiola said: "Sam Allardyce is a genius to take these teams, when everybody believes it's over, and get results. When it happens once, twice or three times you can say, 'Okay it's lucky', but it's not the case because he has done it, I don't know, many times."
West Brom's drop is the only time Allardyce has suffered relegation as
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