Of course he would, he’s the best manager in the world. Sure City spend money, but look at what we spent in the summer and what we have to show for it. At some point this season VDB and Diallo will be on the bench, which works out at what 60/70 million? Sitting on the bench, that’s not including however much we spent for Pellistri so he can play in Spain. The football Peps city team play is brilliant, as annoying as it is to admit it.
Hmm Disagree is a strong word but I am going to use it anyway. It always get's thrown around that we have spent as much as City but the reality is we have wasted probably a lot more $$$ than City have through having a really poor infrastructure and the ongoing debate of not having football people run our club. A few seasons ago, Pep wasted a kings ransom on two duff full backs, the solution, go and spend exactly the same amount of money the following summer to fix the problem. There is three maybe five clubs who can afford to make that expensive mistake and United is not one of them.
As for Pep Ball, I probably go against the grain with a lot of fans but I really do find it dull as utter dish water. U look at some of the Bayern chat boards towards the end of his reign and they could not wait to see the back of him. Death by possession football sprinkled with individual brilliance. Again only my opinion but some of his Barcelona Prime football was of a much higher standard and significantly more entertaining than what is currently being served over at the Etihad. Even his earlier City teams were more pleasing on the eye, more raw, more aggressive, more exciting.
Absolutely no doubt he gets more out of his players by his meticulous planning and high standards. He is clearly a student of the game and is without doubt an Elite tier coach. Let's not make any bones about it though he has been backed and also blessed. He walked into a Barcelona set up with a once in a generation team cultivated not only be La Masia training academy but also they were the core of the all conquering youth team that were further developed by probably the best youth set up globally at the time. Then you add in arguably the genius of Lionel Messi. Bayern, same story. City, the foundations were laid down for him with infrastructure, training facilities, scouting and on top of that, pretty much any player he wanted at his disposal with a few exceptions such as Messi, Neymar. No Elite level manager would fail in either of those set up's, none.
Personally would have preferred Klopp over Guardiola given the choice. His style of football is just more to my liking.