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KDB: Pep will stick to his guns
- Updated: December 17, 2016
Kevin De Bruyne insists Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola will not change his style of playing, despite recent criticism.
The Spaniard has come under fire after City lost two games on the trot – against leaders Chelsea and champions Leicester – leaving his side seven points off top spot as we approach the halfway stage in the season.
De Bruyne, who moved to City from Wolfsburg under Manuel Pellegrini last summer, says that while people are trying to get Guardiola to alter his ways, those efforts are in vain.
He told Soccer Saturday: “I think he’s a very good coach. Obviously he has a different view than a lot of people, especially in England. His way of playing is very different than a lot of teams in England, and I think English media and other people are trying to get into him or change his way of playing, but he’s never going to do it anyway.
“So they ask him the question of whether he’s going to change his playing style, but he does what he does, and I think he always sticks with it, and I think you have to do that as a coach, you have your style of playing and I think the way he wants to play is very positive. So in that way it is very good.”
Asked what Guardiola’s style of play entailed, the Belgian added: “Very dominating in both ways, not only offensively but defensively, so …
