Former England supervisor Fabio Capello has released a beautiful assault on Pep Guardiola, labelling the Manchester City supervisor “arrogant” amongst different matters.
Capello, who controlled Guardiola as a participant in the course of his stint in rate of Roma withinside the early 2000s, failed to mince his phrases whilst discussing the world’s maximum respected cutting-edge train.
Speaking with El Mundo, the Italian turned into astonishingly important of Guardiola notwithstanding insisting that he has no non-public problems with the City boss.
“No, no, now no longer at all. I cost Guardiola very lots as a train, he has completed brilliant matters,
” stated Capello whilst requested if he turned into anti-Pep. “I even have lived via 3 revolutions in soccer, one each twenty years or so: [Johan] Cruyff’s Ajax,
[Arrigo] Sacchi’s Milan and Guardiola’s Barca. I don’t have any hassle announcing that.”
Despite those claims, the retired Champions League-triumphing train speedy modified his tune,
stating: “Do you understand what I do not like approximately Guardiola? His vanity.
Fabio Capello has sturdy evaluations on Pep Guardiola / MARWAN NAAMANI/GettyImages
“The Champions League he gained with City turned into the most effective one wherein he failed to attempt whatever extraordinary withinside the decisive games.
But each different year, in Manchester and Munich, on the important thing days he usually desired to be the protagonist.
“He modified matters and made up matters so he should say: ‘The gamers do not win, I win’. And that vanity has price him numerous Champions Leagues. I admire him, however I see that clearly. Also, even though it is now no longer his fault, he has completed awesome harm to soccer.”
Quizzed on the “awesome harm” Guardiola had completed to the lovely game,
Capello continued: “Everyone has spent ten years seeking to replica him. That has ruined Italian soccer, which has misplaced its nature. I stated: ‘Stop that, you do not have Guardiola’s gamers!’. In addition, the absurd concept that gambling properly turned into simply that. Touch, touch, touch…
“Now in Italian soccer the goalkeeper performs the ball! A catastrophe and additionally a bore that has scared many humans farfar from soccer, they simply must watch the highlights. Why are you going to observe ninety mins of passes and horizontal passes with out fighting, with out running…? Luckily soccer is changing. It has modified, first of all, Spain via way of means of triumphing the Euro [2024] with wingers and gambling fast.”
Capello’s opinion is not going to be one shared via way of means of the bulk of cutting-edge soccer supporters, with Guardiola nevertheless taken into consideration the main supervisor in the sport notwithstanding a tough 2024/25 marketing campaign with City.
