Regardless of signing a contract extension in November 2024, the collection reveals how shut Guardiola got here to not renewing his deal.
In a single scene, the supervisor reveals to director Kevin Macdonald that, after shedding 4 video games in a row in 2024, he informed the membership: “Possibly it is over.”
In a separate scene, Metropolis chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak says that he was undecided he was going to have the ability to persuade the legendary supervisor to remain on the membership.
” the boy that cried wolf? He’s the boy that cried wolf,” the Emirati stated.
“I all the time persuade him, however final yr, I knew, this time he truly noticed the wolf.”
There have been numerous mitigating circumstances for Metropolis’s disappointing marketing campaign in 24-25, together with the 115 fees for alleged breaches of Premier League monetary guidelines hanging over the membership and the long-term harm of 2024 Ballon d’Or winner Rodri.
Amid that, Guardiola’s private life was in turmoil as he went by a divorce and there was media hypothesis about his psychological state when the 55-year-old appeared with a number of scratches on his head and nostril following a disappointing 3-3 Champions League draw with Feyenoord in November 2024.
Whereas the coach doesn’t admit to the concept that his private struggles affected his means to do his job, Manel Estiarte, a long-time member of Guardiola’s technical workers, speaks about how he needed to deal with gamers who have been nervous by their supervisor’s behaviour.
“They have been nervous as a result of Pep was anxious,” he says.
“He was unhappy. He was totally different. And solely I knew the rationale.
“And I stated to the crew, ‘please, you need to perceive, you are not taking part in with a coach who is usually a bit impulsive, who is usually a bit intense, who may be generally up and down. You are seeing a human being. He is getting a divorce’.”
Alongside scenes the place Guardiola obsesses over ways, there are a lot of the place he offers candid speeches and berates his crew.
Following a defeat by Bayer Leverkusen in November 2025, he tells his squad: “I give you the results you want and I go away my life, my divorce and my household is away and the whole lot for all of you. And what do you give again?
“The efficiency you’ve executed, all of you. It is a shame guys.
“Once I see that, I’m exhausted, I am drained, I need to stop. Whenever you play like this, I really feel alone.”
In some scenes, the Spaniard warns his crew that they may “get a brand new supervisor” if performances don’t enhance.
In others, he speaks about utilizing a knife to get into their hearts and insists on his squad hugging each other and himself earlier than matches, even blaming poor performances on lukewarm aim celebrations.
Guardiola stepped down as Metropolis supervisor on the finish of the 25-26 marketing campaign after 10 years on the Etihad, throughout which era he received 20 trophies, together with each the FA Cup and League Cup in his last season.
Talking about his subsequent steps, he says: “I do not know even myself what I’m going to do,” including: “Will probably be troublesome to return again. That is my feeling as we speak. I must refresh many issues that occurred in my private life.”