It is towards the end of the interview that Pep Guardiola starts to become animated. “Football is not A, B and C,” he explains. “What works last season will not necessarily work this season. What did not work last season, could work now. It is open, it is moving, it is like an animal, it develops. Sometimes it moves this way, sometimes it moves another way.”
Pep’s principles: The case for the defence
