{"id":10447,"date":"2025-06-12T10:42:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/guardiola-barca-and-real-madrid-would-have-fired-me-for-a-season-at-city\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T10:42:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:42:28","slug":"guardiola-barca-and-real-madrid-would-have-fired-me-for-a-season-at-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/guardiola-barca-and-real-madrid-would-have-fired-me-for-a-season-at-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola: Bar\u00e7a and Real Madrid would have fired me for a season at City."},"content":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola has stated that, had he faced the challenges of the current season at Manchester City, he would have been fired by Barcelona or Real Madrid.\n\nManchester City, under Guardiola&#8217;s direction, experienced its most difficult campaign since his arrival in 2024-25. The Premier League champions, who had won the title four times in a row, finished third in the table, 13 points behind Liverpool.\n\nFurthermore, the team was eliminated early from the Champions League and the Carabao Cup, and suffered an unexpected defeat in the FA Cup final against Crystal Palace.\n\nThe most complicated period for City was between the end of October and mid-December, with nine defeats in 13 matches. Despite this, the club maintained its confidence in Guardiola and even offered him a new contract in November.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>With the year we&#8217;ve had, if this were Spain, I wouldn&#8217;t be training in October, November, or December. If this were Bar\u00e7a or Madrid, I would have been fired.<\/p><cite>Pep Guardiola<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0310%2Fr1462025_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\nGuardiola mentioned Carlo Ancelotti as an example, who left Real Madrid to coach the Brazilian national team after winning the Champions League and LaLiga.\n\nReal Madrid has hired Xabi Alonso as Ancelotti&#8217;s replacement.\n\nCity has already backed Guardiola in the transfer market for next season, completing the signings of Rayan A\u00eft-Nouri, Rayan Cherki and Tijjani Reijnders.\n\nBoth Real Madrid and Manchester City will participate in the Club World Cup, which begins on Saturday.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola has stated that, had he faced the challenges of the current season at Manchester City, he would have been fired by Barcelona or Real Madrid. Manchester City, under Guardiola&#8217;s direction, experienced its most difficult campaign since his arrival in 2024-25. The Premier League champions, who had won the title four times in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[156,1200,1392,254],"class_list":{"0":"post-10447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-manchester-city","10":"tag-pep-guardiola","11":"tag-real-madrid"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}