Pep Guardiola: Manchester City boss faces five challenges after signing contract extension

It’s typically tough to learn Guardiola.

He can seem drained in information conferences however there’s additionally an inside hearth which has enabled him to set and keep his requirements.

There may be additionally one thing completely different about his attachment to Metropolis.

He nonetheless talks about Barcelona as “his membership” however he discovered the strain suffocating and give up after 4 seasons.

At Bayern, he stayed for the size of an preliminary three-year contract and nothing extra. At Metropolis, he admits, he has the whole lot he wants.

He likes dwelling in England, has no intention of shifting to Italy, so what have been the options. The massive query, submit Treble triumph, is the place does the motivation come from?

This season, there’s a feeling he’s responding to a double problem. He has introduced up Metropolis’s 115 Premier League costs on no less than two events, suggesting the negativity attaching itself to the membership is on his thoughts.

As well as, his facet’s kind would concern any supervisor. His response has been telling. Within the aftermath of the 4-1 defeat at Sporting earlier this month, when requested concerning the problem in entrance of him, Guardiola replied: “I prefer it, I find it irresistible. I need to face it.”

It nearly feels as if, having achieved a lot, he’s relishing the prospect of getting to show doubters improper.