Tuesday evening, the football world had its eyes glued to the PSG-Bayern clash in the Champions League, which kept all its promises with a fantastic match (5-4). The whole football world? Not quite. Pep Guardiola, for example, had better things to do.
While his team is in full sprint for the Premier League title, the Manchester City manager was in the stands for an ordinary D3 match between Stockport and Port Vale. But what was he doing there?
Guardiola preferred Stockport
Guardiola explained this Friday at a press conference.
“The day before, I looked at the calendar, says the Skyblues manager. There was this PSG-Bayern match. I said to myself: ‘What a catastrophic match! The managers are not good, Luis (Enrique) and Vinny (Vincent Kompany), so… Really, really shitty players.’ And as I love English football, I went to see Stockport. »
Of course, it is a total irony on the part of Guardiola, who can only have respect for the one who succeeded him at Barcelona (Luis Enrique) and the one who was his captain at the Skyblues (Kompany). We hope that Fred Hermel will not take the Spanish coach at face value, considering that he agreed with his contrarian opinion on PSG-Bayern…
