Guardiola’s friend, Marti Perarnau, writes in his latest book, “The Pep Revolution”, that City’s boss had told him to ...

This is a notable admission given one of the revelations in a book published by Guardiola's biographer Marti Perarnau last year, giving the inside track on the Catalan's time in Manchester.

Marti Perarnau, Guardiola’s autobiographer, revealed in 2016 that Real Madrid once approached Guardiola while Rafa Benitez was still their manager. However, Guardiola laughed off the suggestion, ...