Pep Guardiola warned his Manchester City players that he would be 'taking notes' on anybody who didn't follow his instructions in a crunch Premier League game with Liverpool last season.
A new seven-part documentary produced by the club follows every step the first team made during another title-winning campaign, with cameras on the training pitches and inside the dressing rooms up and down the country as Guardiola and his squad chased more silverware. It helps to unearth untold stories behind the team's latest achievements, and the first episode shines a light on the manager's motivational skills.
With the Blues facing a fiendish run of fixtures early in the season that saw them go to Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain and Liverpool in the space of a week, Guardiola had already told his players in training ahead of those matches that he would accept them losing as long as they showed that they wanted the ball. And footage taken from inside the Anfield dressing room shows him reiterating this message after victory at Stamford Bridge and defeat in Paris.
