PHOTO: Arsenal manager, Wenger, consoles Guardiola from English media ‘bashing’, saying he got worse when he first came to England
The Arsenal Boss while speaking to the
media said: "I should get some newspapers from when I arrived
and you will see it’s much easier today for foreign managers"
Guardiola who has been at the receiving
end of the media for some months now, as his team struggles to get it together
and master the ‘Guardiola pattern’...the English media who praised the arrival
of the City Boss to Man. City, with so much expectations, are now the ones
bashing him for living short of expectation, and one coach who seems to have
witness such treatment before now, was on hand to share a little advice with
the city manager....
The
Arsenal Boss, continued, saying: “I
should get some newspapers from when I arrived here and you will see that it’s
much easier today for the foreign managers.
“I would say when I arrived here it was
difficult for the foreign managers. Today it difficult for the English
managers. That’s what has changed.
“Have I been surprised by the
criticism? Yes and no. Yes, because his CV is impeccable and no because that’s
part of our game and modern life in our job.
“People really love football in this
country and there’s a big passion for the game. I respect that hugely, but
people also want their team to win.
“On top of that, people are impatient
as well — modern society is like that.”
Wenger added: “I must say he has done
extremely well and he is one of the most respected managers in the game, if not
the most and maybe rightly so. But every manager has a personality and can only
act with his own personality.
"You cannot copy a manager, you
can only be who you are, and he has been influenced at Barcelona by the Cruyff
period when he was a player.
“I think he has strong beliefs and that
for me is the most important thing for a manager. You want every manager who
has a positive philosophy to succeed.
“People are always resistant to radical
change. They are also ready to cope with it if it is successful.
“Our job is to always accept that you
want your own philosophy but at the right pace, and when you go somewhere,
sometimes you have to analyse what is going on and to bring in your own
philosophy at a pace where you think they can cope with it.”
Wenger added: “I have confidence in
this team and more or less I always have had confidence in my teams. We have a
good record in 2016, this team has moved forward and we have a good opportunity
to show that.
“I want our fans to be happy and
confident in our team and theist way to do that is not to have back to back
defeats. It is a big game and you have to be positive before a big game.”
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