What Pep Guardiola did to turn Kevin De Bruyne into Manchester City's star

Kevin de Bruyne has been playing for Manchester City for several years and is one of the best players on the team. This season he has won the Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup. Guardiola is impressed with the performance of this striker.

De Bruyne had a few bad years at Chelsea and was hired by Manchester City, some time later Pep Guardiola came to the Citizens and met Kevin. The Belgian striker was nervous about working with the Spanish coach.

Kevin recounted in a story with The Players Tribune the action that Pep Guardiola did to help him improve his performance. Now De Bruyne is one of the best players in Manchester City and in the world.

What did Pep tell me? 'You are a TOP 5 player in the world'. He told me at our first meeting. That was the way to push me from him. Maybe he wanted to express to me the faith he had in me, or tell me what he expected," Kevin de Bruyne told The Players Tribune.

The influence of Pep Guardiola with Kevin de Bruyne

"I think it introduced me to another way of playing football. I think everyone who works with Pep learns a new football philosophy. Winning is important. Philosophy is even more important. Not many people understand it. He prefers to lose playing the the way he wants to play, than to win by playing the counter-attack while defending". Said Kevin De Bruyne.