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Pep Guardiola becomes a true Blue after logging onto Man City mainframe in title triumph
23.05.2022 - 10:07 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Pep Guardiola may have spent most of Sunday wearing black but as he ends his sixth season in charge at the Etihad the Manchester City manager has never been more of a Blue.
The tale of a fourth league title in five years lacked the drama of previous successes under the manager: there was no 100 points, no domestic clean sweep, and no emergency meeting to rip up half a season of work. At its basest form, the hard work of other teams in the Premier League fell short because the talent of City worked hard.
Of course, there were comeback stories from players including Bernardo Silva, Aymeric Laporte and Kevin De Bruyne, and improvements from Rodri and (at least as far as goals are concerned) Riyad Mahrez. Breakthroughs on the training pitch in set-pieces and attacking in numbers helped gain maximum rewards from marginal gains.
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However, none seem quite as significant as the journey Guardiola has taken over the last nine months to plug himself firmly into the City mainframe. For all the success and joy the manager has brought to the club since 2016, he has never quite seemed in sync with the fanbase - most notably when discussing the sore point of attendances.
From suggesting supporters shouldn't boo the Champions League anthem when he arrived to the regular calls for fuller turnouts at home to a string of weakened selections for derby games, Guardiola has plenty of priors to support the idea he wasn't fully entrenched at the club. The alignment was almost there, but naggingly imperfect.
To a degree, a man whose passion is Barcelona can never fully give himself to his job and the values of the football aristocracy that he has been brought up with
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