Kevin De Bruyne of Manchester City reacts after David Hancko of Feyenoord scores his team’s third goal. (Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images)
After another disappointing performance from Man City, this time in the Champions League, Pep Guardiola’s methods have been questioned by former Liverpool striker, Stan Collymore.
Losing five games in a row for the first time in his managerial career was bad enough, but being 3-0 up against Feyenoord in the Champions League with less than 20 minutes to go, only to then end up drawing 3-3, has really put a spoke in the works as far as City’s chances of winning the premier European trophy again are concerned.
Is Pep Guardiola still up for the fight?
For a team that were seemingly unbeatable just a few weeks ago, they now look… well, ordinary, and Guardiola even bizarrely suggested he wanted to hurt himself after the latest debacle. He went on to note that the Premier League title race would be over if things continued in the same vain.
Clearly something has got to change, and Collymore has considered the possibility that, perhaps, Guardiola just doesn’t have it in him to keep City at the apex of domestic and European football.
“It’s very simple. Football goes in cycles. It happened to Wenger, happened to Ferguson, happened to Sacchi and it’s happened to every manager that has been at a club for over five or six years,” he said to CaughtOffside for his exclusive column.
“Two or three things happen. One, the manager becomes less passionate because younger coaches like Amorim come in that are itching to get out on the training ground like Pep was at Barcelona. In Pep’s case his agitation and his constant need for perfection has a shelf life.
“In the same way a great rock band would like to think that they can play Wembley Stadium forever, the reality is that your powers wane. You get older, you become less capable.
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“Secondly, sometimes players need new voices and stimuli in the dressing room. Just like Jurgen Klopp when he left Liverpool, people thought that any new man wouldn’t be able to match Klopp’s personality, but Arne Slot comes in with a different voice and a different methodology, and it’s so far so very good in terms of it working.
“Thirdly, everybody knows that Man City are…
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