When Pep Guardiola has a point to make, he will invariably find a way of getting it across.
Throughout his career, and certainly during his time with Manchester City, he has been invited to praise one of his players but instead taken his opportunity to point out that they are not doing enough.
It is one of the most striking aspects of Amazon’s ‘All or Nothing’ documentary.
Guardiola usually knows what to say within the confines of the dressing room, but he does not mind filtering slithers of his discontent out into the public domain via his press conferences, either.