What will Pep Guardiola bring to the table?

Pep Guardiola’s reputation speaks for itself. He has won more silverware in the past 10 years than all of Arsene Wenger’s promises to spend big in the transfer market (No jokes).

So let’s go through the list:

• 3 x Spanish Champion
• 2 x Spanish Cup Champion
• 2 x Champions League Winner
• 2 x German Cup Champion
• 3 x German Champion
• 3 x Fifa Club World Cup Winner

Sky News pundit and former Arsenal talisman Thierry Henry, sheds more insight into the tactics of Guardiola having played under Pep in 2009 and winning the champions league, La Liga and Copa Del Rey.

“What he is going to bring to Manchester City is a team that will possess the ball most of the time against any team. It will be a team that will score a lot of goals and a team that will also not concede a lot of goals. People keep forgetting his teams don’t concede a lot of goals,” Henry said.

High-intensity possession football is Guardiola’s philosophy. We’ve seen it many times with Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

“You will get intensity. He is very demanding. The word I will use is ‘dominate’ – because that’s what he wants to do. Is he going to do that? Time will tell, but usually when he goes somewhere he wants to dominate,” Henry added.

One tournament that City have struggled to dominate is the UEFA champions league. This title has eluded them for some time and has somewhat dented their hopes into becoming an elite European force.

What we can be sure of is that Pep Guardiola will definitely bring a cup winning mentality to the Manchester City outfit who struggled to lift a significant trophy (League Cups don’t count) under the leadership of Manuel Pellegrini last season.