Pep Guardiola details Jurgen Klopp call after Liverpool boss announced exit
Pep Guardiola has insisted is not Superman.
With arch-enemy Jurgen Klopp hoping to inflict one last lethal dose of Anfield kryptonite on Manchester City manager, the five-time title winner is happy to admit that he’s only human after all. Klopp will depart Liverpool at the end of the season after locking horns with Guardiola in a battle for supremacy usually found in superhero comic books.
Guardiola understands his decision. But even after eight years spent winning trophies and defending his club from the kind of cheap shot delivered during the week by Reds’ defender Trent Alexander-Arnold, the 53-year-old still has unfinished business at the Etihad.
Despite his admission that he is only a mere mortal. Guardiola said: “Sometimes you have to pretend you are superman, super human, and have to be perfect and win everything all the time, win a thousand million titles.
“You have to do exceptional things all the time, but it’s not like that. I am the same like all of you, like my players, there are good moments and bad moments - but today people are confused.
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“You have success and they say ‘this guy is perfect’. You don’t have success and it’s ‘this guy is not good.’ It’s boring to justify these kinds of things. There is no person in the world who knows when they will be tired, will be happy, will be sad.
“The most important thing I learned in this job is don’t go against your mood. When you are sad, you’re sad, and tomorrow you will be better. When you are happy, enjoy it. I’m tired sometimes because there are influences from family, friends, results…many things.
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“The idea of people today in modern life is you have to be so happy all the time, to show how good the food is that you ate, you have to show it to the world. Sometimes we’re a little bit sad. That’s normal. When I was a little boy, a teenager, I don’t remember all the time being happy - so I just accept it. I am tired sometimes but now with my job I am fine.”
Guardiola called Klopp to get a handle on the German’s decision to walk away from Liverpool with his team once again proving to be a huge obstacle to City’s hopes of becoming the first club to win the title in four successive seasons.
He admitted that he will also know what the time is nigh to leave the Premier League. Guardiola added: “He (Klopp) said to me his reasons - and I wish him luck.
“The demand is high for every manager and everyone handles it their way. All of us have ups and downs. You’re responsible for so many people as well as the club you represent.
“Sometimes you take longer, it depends on the environment - every case is different. It doesn’t matter about the league or the team. Normally though you stay shorter because they sack you!
“You can’t compare the situations, they are different scenarios. At Barcelona I was really, really tired and I left. Here I stayed longer than I was thinking when I arrived. Every case is different.”
Pep Guardiola has weighed into Trent Alexander-Arnold's claims (Getty Images)The City boss, however, was less sympathetic in his response to Alexander-Arnold’s jibe that the trophies Liverpool have won under Klopp mean more to the Merseysiders than the dominance City have exerted on the game. Both Erling Haaland and Ruben Dias responded by suggesting Alexander-Arnold should come back when he has won the Treble.
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Guardiola couldn’t even bring himself to utter the England defender’s name. “We are in a world where the people have an opinion. What the right back from Liverpool has said, a lot of people will be thinking. But it’s not news so it’s not necessary to say much.
“Every club has its own target of being criticised outside. Barcelona was completely different from here. It’s normal. We have a public job and that can’t be done without having the opinion of external people, both good ones and bad ones.
“It’s not a problem - we have to deal with it and live with it. But inside the ropes we know who we are and what we have to do to continue to stay there.”
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