Pep’s job security sure looks nice, doesn’t it?
It’s nice not to get fired at the first signs of a setback, isn’t it?
Manchester City has been through the wringer this season in the Premier League. But after a long run at the very elite levels under Pep Guardiola, City is set to…reload and get straight back into it with Pep at the helm.
That hasn’t escaped the notice of Germany men’s national team coach Julian Nagelsmann, unceremoniously sacked from Bayern Munich during a ski trip in the midst of an active treble campaign in March of 2022. And Nagelsmann commented about it.
“I think what’s happening there [at City] is outstanding. Not from a sporting perspective, but how calm this club remains,” Nagelsmann said in comments last month captured by Frankfurter Allgemeine (via @iMiaSanMia) “For me, that’s the perfect example of perfect work. There is not – at least that is what I have noticed – a single interview by a City official who has expressed a negative opinion about the situation. I would like to see this kind of behavior from other clubs that cause far too much unrest and act far too quickly when it comes to the question of who the right coach is.
“If you always say that the coach is the most important person at the club, then the selection process for a coach must also be the most complex. If companies take two weeks to go through an employee, but sometimes a coach is hired after just one phone call, that’s the wrong approach. City are doing that to perfection, a) honoring someone for being very successful, but b) also accepting the fact that there’s a phase in which things obviously and inexplicably don’t work.”
