Why genius Guardiola is the greatest coach of all time
Pep is one of the best managers we've ever seen. The greatest ever? Well, it's hard to disrespect Sir Alex Ferguson when you have that conversation, but those were different times - Pep's the greatest manager of the modern era, that's for sure.
If you look at what they both won - and I know everyone will read this and say City have spent more, which I get - then Pep has won a Treble at Barcelona and a Treble with City. That's incredible in itself. But the biggest difference between the two is that 'Fergie' was a great manager but Pep is the greatest coach.
He has transformed the way football is played in England in a way that no-one has ever done before. I played against Fergie's teams and the way he galvanised them was incredible. Facing them was horrible because you knew something special could happen and they would fight to the end, and that's coming from someone who played for City.
He did it with loads of different sides too. But as a pundit I've analysed dozens of Pep's games, and he's a genius. It's as simple as that.
When he replaced Manuel Pellegrini in 2016, City already had some very good players so he was not starting from scratch, but he did not just go on to dominate English football for a decade, he changed it too. Now everyone plays the way City do, passing out from the back. That didn't happen before he arrived.