I won in the past because I had amazing players – Guardiola admits

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I won in the past because I had amazing players – Guardiola admits

Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola agrees that his success at Barcelona and Bayern Munic was because he had amazing players.

The Spaniard won six league titles in seven seasons as manager in La Liga and Bundesliga. But he has found life more difficult in England, with his team currently seven points behind leaders, Chelsea.

“I will not have success? I will not have success,” he told Thierry Henry in an interview for Sky Sports.

“This happens to all of the managers – all the managers are sacked, all the managers win or lose, all the managers in November lose in the Premier League. All the managers in the world make mistakes.

“Do you think I am special or different? Of course not. But we were lucky, they said – we were lucky to have players like [Henry], like [Lionel] Messi, like Philipp Lahm, like Xabi Alonso, like [Robert] Lewandowski, and that’s why I had success.

“When I won in Barcelona many times, I said many times in the press conference, ‘We win because I have amazing players’. Huge club, amazing players. And the people say, ‘Ah, he’s humble. He is fake humble’.

“Now [they are telling me], ‘He won because he had amazing players’. Yeah, that’s true! I said years ago, it is normal!”