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What Pep Guardiola told Man City squad in mysterious team meeting before title win
21.05.2024 - 12:19 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Pep Guardiola commissioned a specially-made video to motivate his Manchester City players ahead of their Premier League title showdown against West Ham.
City knew victory would secure the title for a fourth year in a row, something no side had ever managed in English football history. Guardiola had challenged his side to go and break that record and write themselves into the record books, and had hinted at a meeting on Friday to inspire that very message.
"What I'm going to show them today, they will feel it," he said at his pre-match press conference. "It belongs to us. I'm going to show them how good they are and what they have to do. As simple as that."
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Speaking after the 3-0 win that earned the title, defender Josko Gvardiol opened up on what that secretive meeting entailed, with the Croatian confirming that Guardiola had prepared a video of the season, filled with goals, to boost confidence rather than drilling into tactical detail.
"Before the game we were at the meeting and we didn't talk about tactics," Gvardiol told Optus Sport. "He put a video of us playing and scoring goals. He's just different and everyone in the dressing room loves him."
Guardiola had previously asked for the boot room at the City Football Academy to be adorned with the words: "No team has ever won four consecutive Premier League titles... yet." Before the Club World Cup was secured, Guardiola asked for all of the four trophies in City's collection to be presented at the entrance of the training ground, alongside an empty plinth waiting for the final trophy of
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