We won everything thanks to Madrid, Pep Guardiola's curious confession about his Manchester City

Pep Guardiola literally achieved it all. He achieved everything with Barcelona, and he repeated it with Manchester City. After the 4-0 against Fluminense that earned them the Club World Cup, they can be satisfied. After almost eight years on the Citizens' bench, he not only gives the credit to his team but also gave it to Real Madrid.

“I told the players: 'The reason we are here is not Istanbul, it is not Inter Milan. The reason we are here is Monaco, Liverpool, Tottenham, Lyon... It is the final against Chelsea that we lost and the last minutes against Madrid,'" confessed the Spanish coach, referring to each of the eliminations by UEFA Champions League that suffered during his stay in the Sky Blues.

"It hurt at that moment but now it doesn't hurt. That helped us and helped us beat Inter Milan. It's a process. The big clubs are used to that, but for us it was new, feeling that we can do it, believing that we can win everywhere, that we can win...", he said.

After being filled with stars in England with multiple championships in the Premier League, FA Cup and second-order trophies, Manchester City needed to conquer Europe due to the onerous sums of money spent season after season on huge stars and coaches, including Pep.

Mission complete

After several setbacks, Guardiola achieved it: "I have the feeling that the work is already done. I thought it was done after the Champions League, but we didn't have the European Super Cup, we didn't have the Club World Cup... "Now we have everything. It's nice to see the five trophies there and people taking photos with them."