Whenever any new manager is about to join a pressing English side, he gets advices from every corner and few of them are more a warning that honest suggestion and this is something that seems to be happening with Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola who is all set to join Manchester City this summer. Although, 45-year-old highly successful Spanish boss is well known to the culture that resides inside England, yet actual experience is biter than what it seems from outside and former Manchester United great Sir Alex Ferguson is the one who has warned him for his assignment and how difficult it is going to be for him to succeed in front of highly expecting City fans. Ferguson, the 74-year-old former ManU boss has won as many as 13 premier league titles leading the Old Trafford side during his longest n successful spell in England. Moreover, he is known as the most successful English manager of all time and if he is saying something about possible hurdles former Bayern boss would have to come through, it should mean a lot.
Talking about the new Manchester joinee and if he can repeat the success he got at Barcelona – two la liga along with three Championship trophies in three years – Ferguson said, “Without question Pep has got a fantastic work ethic about him, he demands that from all of his training sessions. Anyone who thinks they’re not going to work hard at City won’t last long. He has got great coaching ability, there is no doubt about that. Man City have made a real coup in getting him but Pep won’t find it easy, English football is not easy.
“Every foreign coach that has come to England will tell you that. Arsene Wenger was talking about that a few months after coming and even Jose Mourinho was. Pep will be a success but I don’t think he’ll ever replicate what he did at Barcelona because that was a high standard — they were the best.”
Moreover, revealing his personal desire to hire Guardiola as his successor at Old Trafford when he retired off his duties, he added, “You have to ask what the big clubs are going to do. If you take my time at United, when Chelsea and Jose came on the scene, in the first two years they had quick starts, so I had to accept that challenge. That’s what you have to do when you’re a big club. Arsenal, Liverpool and the other clubs have to accept the challenge when they are not good enough.”