The Athletic spoke about Manchester City's signings and talked about Guardiola's requirements for players and tactics. When Guardiola first took office as Manchester City coach in 2016, he gathered with the club's more than 100 scout tea...
The Athletic spoke about Manchester City's signings and talked about Guardiola's requirements for players and tactics.
When Guardiola first took office as Manchester City coach in 2016, he gathered with the club's more than 100 scout team to understand his requirements for players. When Guardiola first communicated with Manchester City scouts, his conversation was unexpectedly straightforward: "It's very simple, guys, find players who can dribble, and leave the rest to me." Then there was a more detailed discussion.
Guardiola has worked with Robben and Ribery at Bayern to train Messi to the best in the world at Barcelona. But with the establishment of the Manchester City dynasty, the view that Guardiola suppressed the creativity of players began to rampantly, and Gralish, who spent 100 million pounds, was a representative case of this criticism. People believe that the player changed from a free-spirited Mavericks to a ball-handler under him.
For some, Glalish's situation represents the mechanization of Guardiola's playing style. However, many people who have worked with him believe that this is a misunderstanding that the outside world has not understood his genius. Guardiola conveyed instructions to scouts to find players who are good at dribbling, and he believes that he is mainly responsible for developing strategies for how to push the ball into the frontcourt, so this requires top-notch, one-on-one dribbling players.
In Manchester City's triple-winning season, Guardiola used players such as Gallish, B Se and Foden to lead the offense on the wing, and now he hopes to further increase the team's wingers. Among the new players, Ait Nuri's biggest advantage is that he can catch the ball and break through under pressure. Sherky has the creativity of a street player, is good at various fancy moves, and is also the player who creates the most high-value opportunities every 90 minutes in the five major leagues last season. Reindes is very good at midfield advancement, and with Foden, Doku and Nunes, Manchester City seems to be moving towards a style that is mainly dribbling and breaking through.
Guardiola demonstrated his ability to restructure the team at the tactical and physical level and made tactical adjustments many times. When he first entered the Premier League, Guardiola's approach of breaking through the opponent's defense by passing the ball is really new. Later, as the opponent gradually adapted, low-post defense became the main tactic against Manchester City, which forced the team to need more players who could break through dense defense in small spaces. Mahrez can play both ways, but Gallish, Foden and B are often used to provide more accurate breakthroughs.
In order to enhance control of the game, Guardiola also made adjustments to the choice of full-back. He gave up Cancelo and instead used the fourth middle school to prevent the opponent's counterattack. Stones played a versatile role in the Triple Crown season, when Manchester City handles the ball, he moves to the back midfielder. However, this tactic has been cracked over the past season. As more and more teams adopt a man-to-man tactic, players must be able to break through their opponents in a larger space. In this case, especially after former Liverpool assistant Linders became Guardiola's new assistant, signing players who are good at one-on-one could lead to a more direct offensive style.
