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Could Pep Guardiola’s Arrival Spark Revolution in English Football?
- Updated: July 20, 2016
Why did Pep Guardiola take the Manchester City job? He says it’s to prove himself; to prove that his success in Spain and Germany was more than just a consequence of circumstance.
England is where managers are made or broken, and Guardiola now sees the Premier League as something of a testing ground.
But what could Guardiola do for the Premier League and English football as a whole? What ripples will be felt from the Catalan’s arrival at the Etihad Stadium? In the grand catalogue of the game’s development in this country how will his appointment at City register?
His arrival comes at an interesting time for English football. The game is in need of modernisation, with the Premier League in many respects falling behind the standards set by its European competitors. That has been exposed by the league’s faltering performance in the Champions League, where Spanish and German clubs have dominated in recent years.
And so Guardiola could be something of a revolutionary figure for the sport in England. He is seen as the vanguard of football’s current coaching elite, with his practices and methods setting a precedent for the best part of a generation. Now the Premier League hopes to draw on that in order to improve and raise itself.
German football is now more technically adept and tactically aware as a result of Guardiola’s tenure at Bayern Munich over the past three years, with the Bundesliga improving due to the Spaniard’s ideologies. It’s not just the Bavarian club who benefited, but those hanging on to their coat tails as well.
The Premier League now hopes to benefit in the same way. Guardiola could have the same sort of impact that Arsene Wenger had on the English game back in the late 1990s.
The Frenchman arrived at Arsenal with the country’s national sport in a sorry state. Modernisation was needed and Wenger brought it.
Guardiola is charged with sparking the same sort of radical change. His appointment at Manchester City has already forced those across …
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