Mancini Nails Guardiola! You Can't Succeed With A Middle-Table Club

Pep has been lucky to coach the best clubs in the world with the best of legs and in return he has picked up many laurels. Several people have debated this issue raised by Mancini. Mancini has helped to put the fallen Inter Milan back to line, Mourinho lifted a treble with Porto and won the Champions league with Inter after 38 years, Ranieri is doing it with Leicester City and Mancini has questioned Pep. 

Well respected four four two magazine recently rated Mourinho has the best all time coach thereby over looking Guardiola who has been privileged to coach well baked teams. Will Guardiola take a challenge? Well, it seems like a no because he had the opportunity to take Man United, Man City and Chelsea but he opted to run to Germany to play in a one team dominated league where his team buys the best players from sides that contend with them.

Pep can prove Mancini wrong by taking up a mid-table club but we certainly know he won't do that. What Mancini wanted to say is simple, Mr Pep we won't rate you on top until you prove to us that you can make an ordinary team a top class team like Jose did to Chelsea...... chikena. Read the full story after the cut.


Inter boss Roberto Mancini says he is not convinced Pep Guardiola's methods would work at a mid-table club.

Guardiola enjoyed huge success at Barcelona, winning two Champions League titles before joining Bayern Munich, where he has lifted consecutive Bundesliga crowns and a Club World Cup.

His Bayern side are dominating again in Germany this season, establishing an eight-point lead at the top of the table after 14 games, and are seen as one of the favourites to win the Champions League this term.

Mancini, however, is intrigued to see whether Guardiola's possession-based approach would work at a team not challenging for honours.

He told Sky Sport Austria : "He is doing well and his style of football works for teams like Bayern Munich and Barca, but I'd like to see him work at a mid-table side.

"Regardless of that, Pep has some good ideas and is a very good coach."

Serie A's status as the strongest in Europe has waned in recent years and Mancini is not convinced the infrastructure, or personnel, are in place for that situation to be reversed.

He added: "In previous years Serie A was the best league in the world with lots of foreign players who wanted to come here. That was certainly a wonderful period, then things changed, above all due to the financial crisis in the country.

"Then there's a problem with the stadiums, as there hasn't been enough investment. Perhaps it's necessary to change those at the top, as I'm not convinced the people governing Italian football are the right ones."