Regardless of signing a contract extension in November 2024, the sequence reveals how shut Guardiola got here to not renewing his deal.
In a single scene, the supervisor reveals to director Kevin Macdonald that, after dropping 4 video games in a row in 2024, he advised the membership: “Perhaps it is over.”
In a separate scene, Metropolis chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak says that he was unsure he was going to have the ability to persuade the legendary supervisor to remain on the membership.
“You already know the boy that cried wolf? He’s the boy that cried wolf,” the Emirati stated.
“I at all times persuade him, however final yr, I knew, this time he really noticed the wolf.”
There have been numerous mitigating circumstances for Metropolis’s disappointing marketing campaign in 24-25, together with the 115 fees for alleged breaches of Premier League monetary guidelines hanging over the membership and the long-term harm of 2024 Ballon d’Or winner Rodri.
Amid that, Guardiola’s private life was in turmoil as he went by way of a divorce and there was media hypothesis about his psychological state when the 55-year-old appeared with a number of scratches on his head and nostril following a disappointing 3-3 Champions League draw with Feyenoord in November 2024.
Whereas the coach doesn’t admit to the concept his private struggles affected his capability to do his job, Manel Estiarte, a long-time member of Guardiola’s technical employees, speaks about how he needed to handle gamers who had been involved by their supervisor’s behaviour.
“They had been frightened as a result of Pep was anxious,” he says.
“He was unhappy. He was totally different. And solely I knew the rationale.
“And I stated to the group, ‘please, it’s important to perceive, you are not enjoying with a coach who could be a bit impulsive, who could be a bit intense, who will be typically up and down. You are seeing a human being. He is getting a divorce’.”
Alongside scenes the place Guardiola obsesses over ways, there are lots of the place he provides candid speeches and berates his group.
Following a defeat by Bayer Leverkusen in November 2025, he tells his squad: “I be just right for you and I go away my life, my divorce and my household is away and every little thing for all of you. And what do you give again?
“The efficiency you may have performed, all of you. It is a shame guys.
“After I see that, I’m exhausted, I am drained, I wish to give up. Once you play like this, I really feel alone.”
In some scenes, the Spaniard warns his group that they are going to “get a brand new supervisor” if performances don’t enhance.
In others, he speaks about utilizing a knife to get into their hearts and insists on his squad hugging each other and himself earlier than matches, even blaming poor performances on lukewarm aim celebrations.
Guardiola stepped down as Metropolis supervisor on the finish of the 25-26 marketing campaign after 10 years on the Etihad, throughout which era he gained 20 trophies, together with each the FA Cup and League Cup in his remaining season.
Talking about his subsequent steps, he says: “I do not know even myself what I’m going to do,” including: “It is going to be troublesome to return again. That is my feeling at the moment. I must refresh many issues that occurred in my private life.”
