{"id":299406,"date":"2023-12-03T10:24:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T10:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=299406"},"modified":"2023-12-03T10:24:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T10:24:46","slug":"straight-talking-pep-guardiola-vows-to-stay-honest-with-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/soccer\/straight-talking-pep-guardiola-vows-to-stay-honest-with-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight-talking Pep Guardiola vows to stay honest with players"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Pep Guardiola vows to stay honest with players &#8216;whether they want to hear it or not&#8217; as Tottenham visit Man City for first time since &#8216;happy flowers&#8217; speech when he blasted players for sloppy victory<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Pep Guardiola launched a scathing tirade against players and fans last January<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Even with his team winning, Man City&#8217;s boss will not hold back with criticism<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>IAN LADYMAN: If Spurs go toe-to-toe with City, they&#8217;ll have their trousers pulled down &#8211; It&#8217;s All Kicking Off<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By Joe Bernstein for MailOnline <\/p>\n<p>View <br \/> comments<\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola has insisted he will keep speaking his mind in order to try and keep Manchester City top of the tree.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola faces Spurs at The Etihad today for the first time since he described his players as a &#8216;happy flowers team&#8217; after a sloppy 4-2 victory against the same opponents in January.<\/p>\n<p>On that occasion, Guardiola lambasted his stars for being too comfortable and not playing from the stomach, and it worked with City responding. Now the Catalan says he&#8217;ll continue to be honest even if it causes offence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I will do those things whether they want to hear it or not,&#8217; said the City boss, bidding for a historic fourth English league title in a row.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve said good things to them, privately and publicly, a thousand more than negative things. But after that game, I was being incredibly honest and felt it, so I said it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/03\/09\/78519273-0-image-a-45_1701595412080.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola has vowed to stay honest with his players &#8211; even if harsh words cause offence<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/03\/10\/78519309-12819757-He_launched_an_astonishing_broadside_against_his_players_and_fan-a-1_1701598130426.jpg\" height=\"420\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He launched an astonishing broadside against his players and fans after their 4-2 win over Spurs in January, claiming they would not win anything if they retained a &#8216;lack of passion&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/03\/10\/78519329-12819757-Ange_Postecoglou_leads_Spurs_to_the_Etihad_after_three_consecuti-a-2_1701598130427.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ange Postecoglou leads Spurs to the Etihad after three consecutive Premier League defeats\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If we&#8217;d lost I might not have done but we won and people accepted my feeling that we didn&#8217;t have anything inside us, even if it was nice to win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is a manager&#8217;s job to say what really really happens. If you don&#8217;t like to listen, it&#8217;s your problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have to put things in front of a mirror every time. We recently conceded four goals against Chelsea &#8211; two of them avoidable goals. It was a problem. If we don&#8217;t solve it, we will lose games.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola&#8217;s straight-talking has impressed new signing Jeremy Doku who is one of the stand-out players in the Premier League this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He can take me to the next level. That&#8217;s also why I took this chance to come here because I know the manager and how he can help me reach the top,&#8217; said the winger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He lets me be myself but helps a lot with the details to be a better player.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/03\/10\/78519417-12819757-Despite_City_s_4_2_win_over_Spurs_in_January_Guardiola_was_irrit-a-3_1701598130427.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Despite City&#8217;s 4-2 win over Spurs in January, Guardiola was irritated by how fans were &#8216;silent for 45 minutes&#8217; and said he &#8216;didn&#8217;t recognise&#8217; his team\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/03\/10\/78519345-12819757-Jeremy_Doku_said_Guardiola_helps_him_a_lot_with_the_details_to_b-a-4_1701598130428.jpg\" height=\"463\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Doku said Guardiola helps him &#8216;a lot with the details&#8217; to become a better footballer<\/p>\n<h3>Pep&#8217;s extraordinary tirade after City&#8217;s 4-2 win over Spurs in January\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Pep Guardiola was fuming after City&#8217;s 4-2 win over Spurs in January, even though they had come from 2-0 down at the Etihad.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;Playing with this lack of passion, this season I can announce we are not going to win anything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;[We lacked] guts, passion, fire, desire to win from minute one. The same with the fans, they are silent for 45 minutes. I want my fans back. The fans have to shout.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They booed because we were losing, but not because we played bad. We played good. We were better. They booed because we were losing, but maybe it&#8217;s like our team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t recognise my team, they [previously] had the passion and desire to run. Do you think we are going to chase the gap to Arsenal the way we are playing? No way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I want a reaction from the whole club \u2013 everyone. We are a happy flowers organisation. I don&#8217;t want happy flowers. I want to beat Arsenal. Play this way and Arsenal will destroy us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We are far away from the team we had in previous seasons. Do you think this comeback will happen every time? It won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Today we were lucky. If we want to win something or compete &#8211; but complaining, complaining, complaining &#8211; no chance we will win anything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There is something in the clouds, that you cannot express, that we just don&#8217;t have.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12819757\/Pep-Guardiola-Tottenham-Man-City-happy-flowers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola vows to stay honest with players &#8216;whether they want to hear it or not&#8217; as Tottenham visit Man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Straight-talking Pep Guardiola vows to stay honest with players - All My Sports News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/soccer\/straight-talking-pep-guardiola-vows-to-stay-honest-with-players\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Straight-talking Pep Guardiola vows to stay honest with players - All My Sports News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pep Guardiola vows to stay honest with players &#8216;whether they want to hear it or not&#8217; 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