Sometimes Pep Guardiola’s press conference answers are not the best examples of brevity and clarity.
Take Friday’s briefing ahead of the weekend trip to Norwich, when Guardiola was asked a question regarding how the Manchester City fanbase’s lingering memories of “ Typical City ” lead to a fatalism almost entirely absent from the pomp and entitlement of his previous employers, Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
Pep responded over the course of three-and-a-half minutes, with a wide-ranging reply that included another enthused flagging of Kevin De Bruyne’s excellent piece of defending against a Brentford counter-attack on Wednesday.
