Argentina has had a major influence on the Catalan coach's career to date but could he be about to say goodbye to his latest club's cult enclave?
“It’s beautiful listening to how they speak, the musicality of their words,” says Pep Guardiola of a country, a culture, which has had such an impact on his career. “They think in Argentina, they like to speak a lot about football and their ideas.”
Guardiola’s footballing philosophy is grounded in the Dutch school of Johan Cruyff and Louis van Gaal, but the Catalan, who has called himself an ideas thief, has learned plenty from the Argentine way of thinking.