Former England manager Fabio Capello slammed Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, saying that the Spaniard has done ‘tremendous damage to football’ and also branding him as arrogant. “Do you know what I don’t like about Guardiola? His arrogance. The Champions League he won with City was the only one in which he didn’t try anything strange in the decisive games. But every other year, in Manchester and Munich, on the key days, he always wanted to be the protagonist,” Capello said as per the Mirror.
“He changed things and made up things so he could say: ‘The players don’t win, I win’. And that arrogance has cost him several Champions Leagues. I respect him, but I see that clearly. Also, although it is no longer his fault, he has done tremendous damage to football,” he added.
The Italian also lambasted Pep’s possession based tactics, saying that due to clubs trying to copy him, they have lost their own essence.
“Everyone has spent ten years trying to copy him. That has ruined Italian football, which has lost its nature. I said: ‘Stop that, you don’t have Guardiola’s players!’. In addition, the absurd idea that playing well was just that. Touch, touch, touch,” the Italian said.
“Now, in Italian football, the goalkeeper plays the ball! A disaster and also a bore that has scared many people away from football, they just have to watch the highlights. Why are you going to watch 90 minutes of passes and horizontal passes without fighting, without running?” he added.
City, the winner of the last four titles, is now 23 points behind league leaders Liverpool after a 1-0 loss at third-placed Nottingham Forest on Saturday, whose 83rd-minute winner came from Callum Hudson-Odoi.
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