Pep Confidential (55 page)
Authors: Martí Perarnau
Table of Contents
Part One – Time, Patience, Passion
‘I Need to know Everything about the Club, as Quickly as Possible.’
‘I Could see myself Coaching Here One Day.’
‘They will be at the Vanguard of European Football for the Next Five Years.’
‘I’m Desperate to watch Training – I Want to see what Pep Decides to Change.’
‘Leo, It’s Pep. Can you come over? Now, Please.’
‘Do you see Lahm’s Potential?’
‘The Idea is to Dominate the Ball.’
‘We Don’t have a Messi or a Ronaldo – But we have the Right Collective Mentality.’
‘Who are our Unstoppable Guys? Ribéry and Robben.’
‘They’ll Climb that Mountain 10 Times in a Row.’
‘I told Rosell I Would be Going 6000km away from him.’
‘What do you know about Athleticism?’
‘Javi, Look at Dante, Look at Dante, The Line, The Line!’
‘It’s not Possession that Matters, But the Intention Behind it.’
‘I Don’t have any Midfielders.’
We’re Trying to do this Right, Not Just Win Titles.’
‘Bring the Ball Out Well and you will Play Well.’
‘I Loathe all that Passing – That Tiquitaca.’
‘Lahm … The Guy is Fucking Exceptional!’
‘Pam! Pam! That’s our Style of Play!’
‘Bayern were like something out of a Movie Today.’
Part Three – 2013: A Prodigious Year
‘Right Now I’m not the best in the world.’
‘Hoeness is the Heart and soul of this Club – He’s Vital to me.’
‘We are all Hiding Behind the Coach.’
‘Gentlemen, this is Tiquitaca and it is Shit.’
‘Lahm? he’s as Football-Intelligent as Iniesta.’
‘For 80 Minutes we Played Perfect Football – The Best Football I’ve seen in my Life.’
‘If anyone would Prefer me not to make the Decisions, No Problem. You Decide who’s Going to Play.’
‘I’m not Saying my Way is Better. It’s Just my Way.’
‘Put the Good Players in the Midfield. That’s my Idea and I’m Going to Stick with it.’
‘The Whole Club has told me that Franck wants to Talk to me. I want to Talk to him, too.’
‘Excellence is Like a Bubble. You can Look for it, But it only Appears from Time to Time.’
‘Mistakes Come when you Relax.’
‘Here we are Again. Another Final.’
Part Four – The League in March
‘In Six Months here Pep has Tried more things than in Four Years at Barça.’
‘I’m Going to have to make some Radical Changes.’
‘I Look at the Footage of our Opponents and then Try to Work out how to Demolish them.’
‘Perfect Football is Damn Difficult to Achieve.’
‘He’s so Intense that he’ll Exhaust us.’
‘They like the Idea of Telling Their Friends: I Play for Pep Guardiola.’
‘Just as well we had Manu. Without that Hand I Don’T know where we’d be.’
‘Lahm Brings this Team to Life.’
‘I’ve Gone for Control. Control and more Control.’
‘Uli is Our Heart. It’s Hard to Imagine Bayern without him.’
‘Picking a Line-Up is Like Sitting in Front of your Chess Pieces.’
‘I Love You Pep. You are in my Heart, Man.’