Pep Guardiola's biographer Marti Perarnau speaks about how the Manchester City manager has changed and why he has stayed so long at the Etihad
Manchester City are a few hours away from taking on Real Madrid in the semi-final of the Champions League when Marti Perarnau’s phone pings.
Guardiola's ferocious work ethic remains but he has mellowed and learned to let go of the intensity at times in order to avoid him burning out. The City manager's stomach may still be so full of nerves on a matchday that it doesn't appreciate much food, but the man himself now knows that he doesn't have to push himself or every player to the edge all the time.
"He started thinking that he needed to push the players until the edge and after years he understood that some players don't need to be pushed until the end - for instance, Kevin De Bruyne doesn't need to be pushed to the edge. If they key to this has been his ability to relax , how has he been able to do it? Is it just, as assistant Juanma Lillo puts it, losing enough matches to know what being a manager is about? Or being surrounded by people like Lillo?
If nobody thought Guardiola would stay for as long as he has in Manchester, the question that has loomed ever since he arrived is when he will leave. As he again enters the final year of his contract, the club will push for a renewal but know that this could be his last season.
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