Pep Guardiola enjoyed three successful years as head coach at FC Bayern, even without winning the Champions League. However, they were also years in which he did not get everything he wanted
From 2013 to 2016, Guardiola was the strong man at FC Bayern, implementing his special style of play and giving the record champions a special attitude. He won the championship three times and changed soccer in Germany significantly
Internally, the team worked together very conscientiously, but Guardiola is also a perfectionist and the staff and managers also felt the effects of this from time to time. There were disputes with the medical department at the time, and the Catalan would have liked to have had other players and generally made more transfers
Guardiola: „You’re only part of a certain time“
But he had to learn that things work differently in the Bundesliga and especially at FC Bayern than at other big teams. „In Munich, I learned that the club is the boss,“ Guardiola now told Prime Video. In plain language, this means that he had to learn to accept that not everything goes according to his own ideas
Although there were wishful thinking deals that ended up going through, such as Thiago Alcantara, who he vehemently demanded, overall the club’s planning took precedence over the head coach’s wishes. „It’s like this: the club will always exist and you as a coach are only a part of a certain time,“ Guardiola continued
And: „If the club says that you have to do something, then you have to do it. No doubt about it. You can’t say that you don’t want to do something. They tell you: you do this and then please shut up,“ he added jokingly. At Manchester City, he currently has much more influence on personnel planning, which is perhaps why he has been active there for much longer than he was in Munich.