Former Manchester City left-back Gael Clichy told this week some of the behind-the-scenes details of coach Pep Guardiola’s arrival at the English team in 2016. The Frenchman revealed what the Spanish coach’s first speech was at the club, which criticized the weight of players.
“Guardiola arrived and said: ‘I’ve known for a year that I was coming here and I’ve been watching you. You’re a team full of fat players,” he said in an interview with the podcast The Coaches Voice.
Furthermore, Gael Clichy, currently Thierry Henry’s assistant on the France under-21 team, also exposed a rule imposed by Guardiola, which even left players without training.
“He had the two-kilo rule. If you weighed two kilos more than what he considered your maximum weight, you didn’t train. I saw players who didn’t train for two weeks,” he said.
With Guardiola in charge, the Frenchman played 39 games, starting 35. Despite this, he was one of the victims of the major cast restructuring at the end of that season and left Manchester City for Basaksehir, in Turkey.
Source: Gazetaesportiva
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