‘I don’t remember Pep Guardiola telling me before a game, ‘Jeremy, when you have the ball, do this and do that.’ He has given me a lot of freedom’ Jeremy Doku on the advice his former Manchester City boss handed him

Pep Guardiola.

Pep Guardiola’s decade-long stay at Manchester City was underlined by the Catalan’s meticulous nature and structured patterns of carefully choreographed attacking play.

But to assume his players have the shackles put on them from the minute they arrived at the Etihad would be a misnomer.