Pep Guardiola: A Look Back At His Time At City

Pep Guardiola announced that he is leaving Man City at the end of the season bringing an end to a trophy-laden 10 years in chage.

Now it's time to look back at his time in charge.

Pep Guardiola arrived at City in the summer of 2016 with the aim being to turn City into a dominant force and once of the best teams in Europe.

But his first season was far from plain sailing as there were doubts about whether his style of play would work in the Premier League after his team were caught out time and time again when trying to play out from the back. City ended that season in 3rd place and 15 points behind winners Chelsea.

His second season was when it really kicked off for him as he brought in players who fit his system and removed the ones that didn't and got City playing a brand of football that the Premier League has never seen before as they went on to win the title with a staggering 100 points.

More success followed in the following season as City bagged another Premier League title whilst staving off a challenge from a relentless Liverpool before going on to win a domestic treble by winning both cup competitions.

After going a season without a Premier League title in 2019/20, City would go on to establish themselves as the dominant force in the Premier League by winning four Premier League titles in a row, a feat no side has completed in the Premier League era.

During that run he also guided them to the trophy the owners were craving for in the Champions League which they won in 2023 as part of the treble they won that year by beating Inter Milan in the final in Istanbul.

Pep leaves City with a grand total of 20 major trophies including 6 Premier League titles, 5 League Cups, 3 FA Cups, 3 Community Shields, the Champions League, Super Cup and the Club World Cup.

Looking back to his time at City as a whole, Pep will without a doubt go down as the greatest foreign manager the Premier League has ever seen because he changed the way football is played in this country by having goalkeepers to use their feet more, centre backs to carry the ball out of defence and full backs moving into midfield.

Many teams right across the country now play his way which shows how big an impact he's had on our shores and I don't think we'll see another manager like him.