There’s no way top footballers aren’t taking note of City’s Champions League failings by the way. KDB has dropped a historic season and it still wasn’t ‘enough’ firepower for Pep. The latter’s problem is he had a remarkable squad, arguably the best of all time as his first squad.

He hasn’t trusted a team to execute his ideals since. In fairness who can? That FCB squad was Guardiola at his peak, he was headed downhill since. His downhill is better than 99% of managers but he’s competing vs that 1% and he has not been good enough continentally.

He was brought in to compete continentally. They had reached a CL SF and won leagues before he came, so what’s changed? If anything his influence has been City’s vast improvement in infrastructure.