Gusto Guardiola's over the top tender loving care has brought much achievement however could likewise be the reason Manchester City have endured a droop in shape, claims Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg who played under him at Bayern Munich.
Hojbjerg will commander Southampton when they have Guardiola's side on Sunday with City touching base on the back of three annihilations in four matches leaving the heroes in third place, seven off pioneers Liverpool in front of this present end of the week's matches.
The 23-year-old Danish universal midfielder - who joined Saints in 2016 for an expense accepted to be £12.8million ($16.2million) - appreciates Guardiola however thinks once in a while his investigating of a match is excessively extraordinary notwithstanding for the Spaniard.
"He is the most requesting individual, not just mentor, that I have ever met," Hojbjerg disclosed to The Times.
"We sit on the transport after we have won and he sits on the transport watching the diversion and after that he is in his office with two PCs and a TV and he is investigating.
"Perhaps that is the thing that makes him the best.
"Yet additionally perhaps that is the thing that influences him to lose, on the grounds that it is excessively, he suffocates.
"I don't pass judgment on him yet he is the best instructor I have had."
BETTER AND BETTER
Hojbjerg, who was advanced out twice while at Bayern under Guardiola, says if the City players have taken their foot off the pedal they will before long be thumped into shape by the previous Barcelona mentor.
"He needs numerous great players to push one another," said Hojbjerg.
"They will all battle against one another and the best one will play.
"You would not whine, you simply improve the situation on the pitch. He keeps players so sharp."
FROM BOY TO MAN
Hojbjerg, who has fought his way again into the national side following a 18-month rest which cost him a place at the World Cup finals, concedes he was excessively youthful at Bayern to value the majority of Guardiola's logic.
In any case, Hojbjerg - who concedes Guardiola changed him from a man into a kid - says there are a few things that have remained with him.
"He (Guardiola) dependably educated me concerning controlling the diversion with or without the ball," he said.
"To make the player you play against respond to you, not you to him.
"He used to state to me, 'Pierre, the most vital thing is, on the off chance that they are near you, go out and in the event that they are open, you go in, yet you have to peruse it.'
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