He didn’t dump his philosophy :he was adapting to Halaand but fundamentals remained the same

Pep went from possession and control to just control the game. He find a way to control the game even with sharing the possession.

Man City defence was top class this season. No denying about that.

3:05 Speaking of total football, there's a video of Cruyff where he says that, although he likes his centre-forward to drop deep in order to create a diamond in midfield, if he has a world-class striker then he's gonna play him as close as possible to the box in order to play to his strengths. That's similar to what Pep did with Haaland. Maximizing your best players' strengths is always the key.

I don’t think he dumped his philosophy, he adjusted it to compete against modern tactics and the roster he has. Physical strong strikers are becoming more important not only to keep the ball but to also make space and shooting lanes for your midfields. They still control posession in almost every game.

Pep has tactically evolved because football is a sport that evolves as well. Pep has expounded on his tactics and understanding of the game since his Barcelona days. The current version of Pep Guardiola is more versatile than his earlier version at Barca. At Barca, Pep had one way of playing the game which was possession football. Now, at City, particularly this season, we have seen Pep become more dynamic. The fundamentals of Cryuff's positional play still remain the same but certain things have changed. City have won games having less possession than the opponent which was unthinkable of a Pep Guardiola team. Games against Arsenal in the Epl and Bayern in the CL, City had less possession but ended up beating both teams resoundingly. Pep has understood that possession and control are not entirely the same thing. For example, the game against Arsenal at the Etihad where City won 4-1, Arsenal had slighly more possession than City yet had less shots on target than City. So, this means that despite City having the lesser possession, they had more control of the game than Arsenal. Basically, Arsenal had more possession but less control while City had lesser possession but more control of the game. The best way to describe Pep's tactical evolution is that he has become less stubborn particularly when it comes to possession. This version of Pep is way more unpredictable and more cunning to the opponent than his earlier days as Barcelona and Bayern coach. The game against Real Madrid at the Etihad a few weeks ago in the CL semi final, City played very similar to Pep's Barcelona. But the game against Bayern in the quater finals, City looked a completely different team all together. They looked like a hybrid between Pep's possession football and prime Mourinho's counter attacking football. Pep has 2 main systems that he uses depending on the opponent he is facing. At Barca, Pep only relied on one main system.

Pep Guardiola is a smart man, and a deep connoisseur of football. He is not some fanatic of his own one trick wonder. He had Barcelona, he did Tiki Taka. He has a great all around team, with a super strong striker: he acts like the coach of the world's best striker's team.

I dont think he changed his philosophy, to be honest I feel like they didn't use Haaland to his full potential, his stats say otherwise, but there were many times in games in which he made runs behind the defenders but no one passed the ball. Guardiola prioritizes ball control, and does not want to loose the ball. Once they adapt to Haalands runs he'll have even betters stats.

The greatest coach of all time.

He just adapted to the players but the fundamentals and principles remained the same

He did change, he evolve with modern game , going direct and it also has to do with the quality of the players , they are not one barca level so they'll never play the same.

He is awesome GOAT iconic legend

Haaland is so good, that he made the best coach in the world (maybe of all time) reconsider his life choices.

Haaland is a box specialist. If you have a player like him you have to use him right. He didn't change for Ibra in Barça because there was a much better player than Ibra who would be underused with that change.

With Captain Clutch gone and Kova in the rooster. I wanna see how Pep use this team. Kova's ball carrying skills are top notch and ik Pep will use his full potential. Let's see what happens. Excited for 2023/24

Very simple he is the best ,no matter what ,he didn't change nothing..

Possession was not his goal and his philosophy it was the right way with the players that he got. Plus while I do think Haaland was very long awaited addition to man city, it is kevin de bruyne that is truly essential in man city's simpler but deadly attack because his cross speed and accuracy is absolutely unreplaceable.

If you look at Bayren last year and earlier, they KILLED tiki-taka, because their speed and fast Ball Movement means more "open" shots on goal. Most teams learned Mourhino's pack-the-box tactic to blunt tiki. Haaland was lethal at Dortmund bc he got the ball frequently and in open field. Pep changed to accommodate the skills of this player (look at Lewy at Barca - the slow buildup blunts his runs). If you watch Barca's Messi days, 30% of goals were from counters, long thru passes, long shots. A smart coach exploits what is given him. And like the video says, Defense really matters against great teams.

He is truly the GOAT in the business! I count myself blessed to be a City fan during his era.

Tiki-taka was only possible and will work on iniesta, xavi, busquets and messi. Mid fielders that can work with short passes, de bruyne is never that mid fielder, neither are the rest of the midfielders in city.

The philosophy never changed.

even in 2020-21 season pep used a false 9 because agree hardly got any game time

Like Bruce Lee says flow like water adapt,Pep is very dynamic

GOAT; (great video!)

great video. Pep always a trend setter. his experimenting trait will ensure his football style evolving. everyone else has to keep up.

he was more direct than he used to. More like zidane as a manager

No way did he dump his philosophy. The foundation of his team is always present with his triangles, overloading centre mids in the midfield. He barely play wingers anymore for his important games this season. John stones is a revelation this season though

Love the videos bro ❤

This is why Pep is the best🔥 he isn’t obsessed with his Phylosophy but when he has a different squad he just creates another tactic

Well you can't disagree that he's the best

0:45 blud was thinking too hard

Indeed he is a brilliant manager and he deserves RESPECT

I disagree, you adapt the strategy to the players you have available. Also the "tiki taka" was a big myth. The biggest and most important part of that football was possession and pression on turnovers.

City won the Prem because Liverpool, Man U, Tottenham and Chelsea all performed well below their average. Arsenal throwing away the title gave them the ultimate courage to go all in on the FA cup and UCL. This upcoming season will really test how good they are. Especially in the UCL. If you can't perform on this level on a consistent basis you are not a great team. Everyone can do better in domestic leagues and cups but to me UCL is the ultimate test

Nice video, I found it interesting to hear your opinion.

Best coach of the century

Tactics follow weapons. You have a weapon like Haland, you adjust your tactics.

People here claiming Pep didn’t dump his ideas and the “fundamentals” remained the same, which is is misleading to me. The only thing that has remained is aversion to counter attacks. He did this before by having control in midfield, this season he did it by having 5 defensive units who can win 1 vs 1 situations.

It is impossible to play like Barcelona if you don't have Daniel, Xavi, Iniesta, Messi and Busquets.

I disagree with your premise of Pep’s philosophy. Pep has not embraced a new philosophy. His philosophy remains the same and he communicates it clearly to players. That’s why he excels. What he has done this term in the premiership - and has done everywhere throughout his career - is play to the strength of the players available to him. In FCB, Tiki Taka was unavoidable. The same worked for him in Bayern except that recognized he had a very good focal point in Lewandoski and do not need to play with a False 9. This term in City, he brought a machine in the Focal Point, Harland, who obviously cannot play the pass and move game because he loves to hang around the box. Would have been a waste to compl him play as a false 9, so he finds a way to incorporate him into hIs philosophy through lobbed balls and fast breaks and it worked perfectly. That does not mean he has abandoned his philosophy. He continues to innovate and evolve!

Pep is a legend but would like to see how he can manage a team to success that has a limited budget or is a mid table team. The only challenge left with Pep to do it. Jose and Klopp have achieved success even with limited budget or average teams.

One thing i will say though, teams are better off taking pot shots at goal this season against City. Than trying to work their way into the box. Because there's just no way they will get past the defence. At least taking long shots from outside the box will increase their odds with shots on target.

He did What he needed to win

I feel like Pep will change next season l, I think he was just exploiting the momentum and shock that Haaland had with city

Pep stopped being obsessed with possession, when he realised possession alone couldn't help him triumph. Instead, he adapted with the rise of Haaland, and fundamentally reshaped his philosophy. Instead of possession, it is about controlling the situation. He achieved all three cups in a row for a year because he realised better control win all.

Of course he is a great coach only great coaches can win triples with 3 different teams barca bayern and now city... This man truly is a genius

Zidan did not dump his way. But I heard that the luckey Zidan was just telling Marcelo and Carfajal to cross for CR7 (he just had the dressing room and the team superstars) But Pep adjusting to the qualities of his squad his wisdom (social media reach media in a nutshell). For lots of people, it's not about underrating Pep (Despite some commetting this crime), but it's about Justice for other (wise) coaches.

What he said about cancelo was wrong though , he plays more like a winger than midfielder

He tweaked his philosophy to accommodate players. This helped him find answers to all sorts of problems that any team has thrown.

Philosophy evolves is not dumped.

Hear me out, since 2017, I wish Barca could adapt the arsenal style of play. Possession, press after loss of possession, dominate games , and creativity inside the box. Right now we have youth players and good finishers.

0:46 GJ fuming abt getting benched

He did not abandon his philosophy is still have highest Possession.

He did not dump his philosophy he used a natural no.9 instead of False.9

Imagine if he used this tactic with Zlatan

GOAT manager - Pep the 🐐 forever

no he didnt dump his philosophy he just tighten the defense and adapted his tactics with the resources he had, only Barca born and bred players can play the tiki taka style of play if he had to get he had to get only that sort of player he would have to dump the whole team and all the reserves as well. he had to adapt a little to what he doesn't have and get the type of players he always wanted but could not get in other teams players who respect and listen to him young one like Haaland

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He changed football

Very interesting

Oh he changed tactics, everybody applaud. Some coaches out there change their entire play-style on a match-to-match basis, possibly because they can't afford to buy one of the best squads in football, and they're not hailed as geniuses. I want to see Guardiola coach Westham with a mediocre budget and then I'll be impressed.

He didn’t dumped his philosophy, he just brought his philosophy into English football culture and try the best way to emulate it

John Stones for Ballon d'Or 😁

i would love to see how a player like luuk de jong would do under pep he is kinda a mini haaland in a way so would he play him like haaland

This is what living in Manchester for 6 years does to a MF.

Tiki-Taka sometimes is useless like when you need a fast goal

5 defenders and 5 attackers with no need for the traditional midfield

U just reavaled peps plans 😮

he never went unbeaten

Pep got the idea from Brighton..

Pep = GOAT

Answer: he didn't. Guardiola has always been adaptable. He tweaked a couple of things, like sometimes City will sucker teams in to pressing their first phase to then quickly attack like Brighton do, but using a big number 9 isn't something that's anti-guardiola.

Greatest (TOP LEVEL CLUB) coach of all time... national team or relegation coach im not sure if he would be the best at that..

From what I watched this season, 85% of this is wrong. The only correct thing said here is "the system was restructured to fit in Haaland"

As a Man utd fan, it pains me to call him the Goatest coach of all time but a fan of football, he is the Goat.

Why? Different team with different players. That's football....

tiki taka doesnt work anymore, it's an old school, pep know this.

I love his 5 lane philosophy

People also forgot that it was only some luck that he didn't win UCL in 21 and 22, and if he did won it we would be praising how Pep's team is the best without striker

He didn't it's called evolving. Still tiki taka but with pnp and direct.

Why was smoke coming out of Gabriel Jesus?

Pep is great. But he also has to adapt to players and the game. His players at man city are not the same as barca, they have no messi like players for false 9, barca players have no ego and plays passing a lot in the past cuz the players in barca that time were smart passers. Man city has power strikers at front with aggressive forwards. Tiki taka is not viable to man city.

Financial fair play

pep wants 100% ball possesion and win the game LOL and its work 🤣 he is using 11 midfielder in his squad

People have to realize its not the same players and he cant play the same like in 2009 becuase his players cant adapt perfectly to that playing style. Remember all those players from prime Barcelona were teached to play like that for years in la masia.

I guess because he had a norwegian terminator up top.

Well, Haaland is very different from Messi.

It's Sir Joseph Guardiola

Why doesn’t pep play 433 anymore

Halaand can't pass the ball like Messi so that's why and he didn't drop it he was just adapting Halaand, you'll see next season.

dumped his philosophy ????????????????????????????????????????????????? averaged 60% possesion the whole champions league please, he is just more direct now and effective instead of JUST passing

Because it was a style of play that fit the world class, professional players he had at Barca…He’s also missing Messi who was the key to that style! It’s not rocket science and he gets way too much credit for that style of football and his teams success afterwards. When you manage the worlds wealthiest teams a toddler could win the league as the manager 😂

Instead admitting that PEP is great, I'd rather cope and say he only did it because of oil money 😪!!

He won everything with that

People can say Pep isn't the GOAT of coaches. They'd be wrong. But they can say it.

Goat Coach for sure

This guy who make this video didnt see all the games of the city xD

Pep changes tactics based on different players. Meaning the types of players necessitate various tactical approaches. His strategy is to win. Philosophy blah blah

His philosophy is winning

Pep didn't dump his philosophy. He simply just wanted to adapt to Erling Haaland and it worked.