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Pep Guardiola Leaves Bayern Munich As The Best Manager In Bundesliga History by Nobody: 6:52pm On May 07, 2016
Was Pep Guardiola's time at Bayern Munich a success?
Seeing as he failed to win the UEFA Champions League,
or even make it to a final, some have argued no. That's
an extraordinarily high bar to set, maybe even an unfairly
high bar, but that comes with being Pep Guardiola,
managing at Bayern Munich and taking over a team that
had just won the treble.
But one thing is pretty clear: Guardiola is the best
manager in the history of the Bundesliga.
Nobody in Germany has been able to touch Bayern
Munich in Guardiola's three years at the Allianz Arena.
He has three league titles to his name, making him
perfect in the Bundesliga, but Guardiola's dominance
cannot be summed up by simply counting trophies.
Bayern did so much more than simply finish in first place
since the Spaniard took over.

Bayern Munich absolutely throttled the rest of the
Bundesliga.
Just look back to Guardiola's first season at the club.
Bayern went undefeated in their first 28 matches under
Guardiola and even won 19 straight at one point. Only
once did they concede more than one goal in that span
and they had a goal difference of 66. By the time they
finally lost, on April 5, they had already clinched the
league, having become the first team in history to win the
Bundesliga in March.

The Bundesliga had never seen a team as dominant as
Bayern Munich in 2013/14. And they were nearly as good
in Guardiola's second campaign.
Bayern didn't make it to April undefeated that season.
Instead, the Bavarians only managed to go undefeated in
their first 17 matches. And Guardiola's men didn't win the
league in March, instead waiting until April, but still
clinching with four matches to play.
Even this season, Guardiola's third at Bayern, there was
never really a title race.
Bayern Munich won their first 10 matches of the season
and, with one match to play, have only lost twice.
They've been an absolute machine and while it took until
May to win the league this time around, the Bundesliga
was all but wrapped up on March 5, when they drew at
Borussia Dortmund to kill any chance their yellow-clad
rivals had of catching incomprable Bayern.
It's been a magnificent run for the Bavarians. It's been
one the Bundesliga has never seen before.

Whether it's the trophies, the goals, the defense or the
complete destruction of any other German club's belief
that they might have a chance of winning the league,
Guardiola's Bayern have been so far beyond any other
Bundesliga club in history.
Bayern have been so good that the team's regression
over the last three years, going from the best the
Bundesliga has ever seen to one that is simply one of the
best the Bundesliga has ever seen, is used as a knock on
Guardiola. "The team isn't making progress," some
observers say. And maybe not, at least when it comes to
results, but they're still miles ahead of their competition.
And it would be unwise to simply look at results, anyway.
Part of what Guardiola was charged with doing was to
instill a real style and sustainable foundation at the club.
It's impossible to argue he hasn't, with the possesion-
based attack, constant movement, versatile and ever-
evolving system that defies formation or even
conventional soccer sense now the norm at the Allianz
Arena.
It's not as if Bayern were a long-standing unstoppable
force when Guardiola took over, either. Yes, they had just
won the treble, but Borussia Dortmund had won the
Bundesliga in the two years prior. There was, supposedly,
a real rivalry and competition at the top of the
Bundesliga. At least that was the case when Guardiola
first took the reins at Bayern Munich. We know that's not
the case now.
Maybe Guardiola isn't an outright success at Bayern
Munich. But you have to look to Europe to make that
case. Because in Germany, Guardiola has no equal. Count
the trophies. Add up the goals. Look at the way they
play. Even look at the rest of the league, defeated from
Day 1. Guardiola is the best the Bundesliga has ever
seen.

Source: lifedrama.com.ng/pep-guardiola-leaves-bayern-munich-as-thebest-manager-in-bundesliga-history/

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Re: Pep Guardiola Leaves Bayern Munich As The Best Manager In Bundesliga History by oloriooko(m): 7:03pm On May 07, 2016
I doff my hat for Pep, he is the best among the best a master tactician who has insatiable desire to be the best. He will be missed surely at the Alianz arena.
Re: Pep Guardiola Leaves Bayern Munich As The Best Manager In Bundesliga History by jerryunit48: 7:37pm On May 07, 2016
Ever since Guadiola became the Boss I became a die hard Bayern fan couple with the fact that they have Jerome Boateng there and am Jerome too , but you have to understand that he can only work with what he has ,he is the best in the Bundesliga for sure Muller just spoilt the chance of making it to final

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