Predicting Pep Guardiola's assessment of Manchester City's current squad is a trickier task than might be expected. Across his time in charge at Barcelona and Bayern Munich there are common themes and obvious concepts he insists upon -- the simple concept of possession football being the most obvious example -- but his favoured type of player has varied dramatically.
It's worth remembering, for example, that when Guardiola took charge of Bayern three years ago, the consensus was that he'd struggle to find a place for Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben -- wingers rather than the wide forwards with whom he'd worked at Barcelona.