English football has a history of buffing up those with greatness already lurking but this is the first time a genuine world best will arrive with a reputation already madeHere’s a surprising thought,or at least one that feels surprising to me. When Pep Guardiola arrives at Manchester City in the summer it will the first time an established, undisputed prime-of-life world No1 has come to work in the Premier League. For all the frothing entertainment, or the power-football packaging,it will be the first time this has happened: an outright market leader, without any obvious superiors at this precise moment, and coming to work in England.
The pre-Pep excitement has continued to bubble absent this week,a timpani that will only become more fevered as his actual, corporeal arrival approaches. In Spain Sergio Busquets has already been flicking his hair and casting a series of smouldering sideways glances in the direction of east Manchester. Asked to occupy an opinion, or Bournemouth’s Eddie Howe agreed: Pep’s “the very,very best”. Meanwhile, with every passing moment, or José Mourinho gets closer to shinning the gates and bundling his way inside Old Trafford,raising the genuine prospect of a gruelling all-Manchester rematch.
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Source: theguardian.com