Thierry Henry meets Pep Guardiola

it's too difficult for me yeah I'm going to be I'm not your Mister anymore yeah but once you've been my Minister you're always going to be my mister so I wanted to ask you a question that's pretty simple for me what is the hardest thing that you have to encounter since you you've been in this league what's the hardest thing in this league specific quality of this league yeah so I try to play in one way on my career and here in terms for example High pressing when the opponent has the ball I go to pick you up and but it's not allowed because uh is not allowed so many times the ball is more in the air than the grass and I had to adapt so I was in Munich and I spoke with chabi Alonso said you have to that the second ball second boss but I thought it's okay second ball okay but real you have to adapt the second wall and the third ball and I I never in the fall yeah I never before it was focused on that never because in Barcelona and Spain the people some players play but more or less when you try to play for the culture that's why they won wall caps and they won the European cups and won a Champions Leagues and won Europa League all the time all the years Spanish teams are four in the next stage in any any finals or 45 is always the champions league and Europe League all the teams and and in Germany it was more physically read but not not like here here is all the teams when you try except a little bit Chelsea because Antonio is playing really well they build up a little bit but the other teams and they are taller and they are stronger and they are physical you know physical and you have to do that and and build something from that that's that's the thing I used to say because I had the opportunity to play in in all the leagues and the problem is you you will encounter different problems in different leagues like in Spain and people might people say that sometimes it's easy to win the league in Spain we know it's not easy but you encounter different problem because the team can outplay you in Spain here they it's very difficult if you play West Brom like you said ball goes straight away to the striker and if you want to put pressure it's a different story there is one thing I also wanted to ask you for the first time I know you must have encountered some problem before but for the first time around this time you're not top of the league you know in Barcelona you were most of the time top of the league and having some points ahead uh Bayern although you when you first arrived it was difficult at Bayern and I know also it was difficult to solve both of them at the very beginning but you managed early to find a way to be at the top of the league and then improve even more after for the first time you're not there how difficult it is to deal with that I think I think when when now we are after eight years the USA is not the first team so and now we are talking like an exception when the exception is in eight years not to be all the time in the top of the league I know so uh that's why I'm asking you the question yeah it is the first time but but I think it's uh what I'm living now it's all the money in the war is living so the exception and the the a little bit unreal is what I live in the past so of course because in Barcelona it was in in Bayern in the big teams and big clubs and and so on but in Spain there are Atletico Madrid Madrid imbalancing balance in that time was you know that they're really really strong so and the people cannot say the Bundesliga okay by Munich dominated the last but in the last 50 20 years is the leak were more changes of winners more than for example Inger were dominant the last decade 50 years it was a much United in Chelsea sometimes and Russia sometimes so uh but it's a challenge so now I I live that situation but it's a normal situation all the managers around the world because I knew and I know that club you have to build something and I am the process to to getting better but the most important thing is not about I am not helping the way for many many circumstances not just the long balls you know the other circumstances and and know my players they know my players how can do how can how can play with that quality they are going to go more into details because I had the opportunity to play on the UN one of the things that I always used to say talking about our time and what I see from you it is the first time that I see one of your team conceding that amount of goals that's true and and and people always talk about you know how entertaining your teams are uh the what you give to football and how you see the game and how clever you are and and that's true but I know also how important it is also for you not to concede and people don't give you a lot of credit for that and all the time your team were the some of the best if not I'm not considering goals in the world so I want to know how you you're coping with that because I know that much hurts you as much as when your team is not playing well and not scoring goals because I know you always want the perfect game yeah I thought about that in the last period that's true it's always I can see always we were the best in in that terms and now we are considering a lot of gold so because I think the football here is more unpredictable so because there's more time there and here and like it's here the ball is not controlled always I try to control the game in in through the balls it will be a way away from your goal and here is more difficult to control that because you cannot do that uh in terms of our high pressing the ball is more there the referees concede more playing times and the average is two minutes and a half in Europe the people playing his four minutes so when he's faulting all around the wall here is not fault and uh and I have to adapt that and uh when that's happened is more you cannot control so many times than the past in control I felt we could control that that's why I need more so in some times of the games you have to more more simple some in some situations of the game in after one situation you cannot play when in other places you can play and uh and when that situation you control that after that we arrive the individual Mistake by the I don't believe too much individual mistakes but to to the the coach disease individual mistake you pull it out yeah yeah you put it out individual mistake but the governor one is another individual mistake another individual mistake and it's because of that in predictable game here in England that that makes so fascinating for the people for the fans because you never know what happened for three and and the last minutes always can happen here you don't play 90 minutes you play 95 in with 95 it's 96 and it's always always at the last chance for one team that just makes so beautiful but to control to try to control it's a little bit more difficult and I will need more time because obviously applied under you always people ask me questions and and sometimes I feel like I almost have to defend you at times I'm not you know just just saying and obviously the rotation because sometimes you play a back three sometimes you play back for sometimes the personal of the battery changes sometimes the personal of the back Fortune is sometimes sometimes you play a box inside sometimes you play Iron white sometimes and and I know obviously what what you want the one you're trying to do but do you do you do it to try to find out the right balance for the team which is scoring and not considering or do you do it like I know yourself because you're trying to to to create and do something because of the opposition on the day yeah maybe not maybe you're right maybe it wasn't my mistake to change too much to give him I'm not saying it I'm just saying yeah is it because do you do it because you're playing against the team because I know you used to give us a lot of of different ways of playing it depend on it depending on your team or because you're trying to find the right balance yeah yeah yeah that's true that's true but when you make this kind of actions or the kinds of little chances to make the right balance because all the teams and most of the teams in the lot is okay I put the ball there I go to the second ball it doesn't matter you have the ball when you have the ball you're going to punish you when you're going to lose the ball oh it's it's except one or two three or four teams in the world the other is looking for that it's all the new changes to try to to defend better to attack better so that is is the way and sometimes I see but it's true so it's not important what I see the important is what the players believe or what the players understand that or believe in that and when that's happening maybe you have to learn more security but when sometimes we defend with three or we play with three it's because I think we are going to play better and we're going to dominate a one that's happened when you made that change we were lucky because against Everton we missed two penalties for example Chelsea when this kind of thing happened you have in that balance and the confidence and in the first time on the period of the with the with the managers important the results because after that your results the the the the players trust you a little bit more on you but there's another thing that you know I you know yourself when you first of all the Barcelona I struggled to understand what you wanted because and I think the team did also at the beginning I'm sure you remember Newman's hair away spotting with struggle at the beginning to understand what you wanted and I can see a bit that with that team sometimes and and I know sometimes you were getting up getting up on the on the bench and trying to tell me some stuff and I was like because the way you are you see everything and sometimes it can be a problem because you see every thing so sometimes some players do you think is it is it because sometimes they don't maybe understand your message as if right now that they need to them and you having the same kind of level of understanding each other or is it simply also down to Quality because the game against Everton and I'm not going to name them all all the games that you play at home you should have won you know so we would have been talking about a different Man City right now if you won all those games because you would have been with with Chelsea up there but you're not and I know that you're not going to look into that and say oh no we should have them but do you think it's down to how you deliver the message or do you think also it's down to Quality because sometimes you have guys that they don't understand it or they cannot execute it also that's it that can be also a problem no no when they don't get the message or they understand the mission it's your problem it's my you probably it's the coach problem so what all the money is the world it doesn't matter how good you are if you players don't understand what they're looking for or your players don't understand what what do you want so no sense so that is ridiculous because all the people are in the in the at home in the the you and the all former players the journalists analyzing you are clear what is going to happen but the important is they understand the players and uh but I think at the end all the the information is going to come up uh get out and yeah and it's going to happen you think at one point that everybody is going to understand what what what you want and obviously what's good for the team and I think for me seeing it from The Outsiders I think that for the first time it's taking a bit longer than what it happened for you before yeah yeah yeah sure yeah definitely definitely and there's one thing that I want to add because I get I get annoyed when people ask you that question I'm not going to ask you that question what I'm going to ask you is you can do that no I'm not going to ask you that question because I love managers that want to play out from the back but every time that you've been asked that question basically that people are asking you to go against what you believe in what made you what what what what's what what's you our annoyed and frustrated do you get when people always ask you do you play out from the back you always want to press you should change it change it and I think you do it the right thing personally of not changing but but you get frustrated no I'm not for State I understand so but what should I do to change the people say you have to change the people have to tell me what what have what I should do what I have to do to change of course I understand what Afghanistan because they are England they play in England they all their lives living here and look in that game I understand completely and they win and lose in that way I was born in in a little town in Catalonia so I grew up there and I was I was really inspired in the way the play in that way and and I move on to to Germany I didn't we did it in Barcelona it was maybe easy because it was the best player ever and for me and it was you and Samuel and and in huge players help us help me to be very much but they move on in in Germany and I adapt to Germany for example the contracts were in Spain happen a few times in Germany they are amazing and that but never lose what I I believe and I came here in Old Trafford in Emirates and like this and I show my way and of course and then winter the blues and here I have to adapt that but what should I do what I have to do in English football the way they play I have to no I will adapt a little bit of course the quality of that but the other I don't know what I have to do another man you have to sit here beside you and do what the people will say because the people say you have to see more pragmatic more clinical more more problematic than me I'm sorry like a number of chromatic is numbers it's not when I'm talking about problematic when I'm talking about the way or there's something discuss about football is numbers the numbers I'm good when talking about numbers let me talk about the people said pep one in Barcelona but it was boring of everyone in in their teams in Miami was boring I understand completely but when you understand numbers considered goals considered goals make titles and uh sorry guys it was good but in here in the way I play so that I arrived here and we did it in the beginning because we did it everywhere and when we then win against especially home because curiosity we were able to win in barley Crystal Palace West Brom so I thought wow we would share problems in that phases and we won it was quite solid and at home when we're playing much much better the Crystal Palace Burley or Swansea for example when we won and we didn't make it perfect we played much much better at home in our Stadium the field in the women play and we didn't win but that is magnesium sport we played is football but I should of course I I'm going to play details to a data as quick as possible first the quality of the players because the manager have to adapt the quality place in the way you want to play but in the English football I have to to to adapt but the the principles I'm not going to change I keep on saying that to everyone that that will never happen I keep on saying I always remember one thing with you is the final in 2009 what you said before we stepped on the field you always say guys don't ever lose our way and all I want is people to set up my team can play good football have a good game I remember that and when I say that people they go like wow he didn't talk no I didn't talk about the outcome of the game that will happen and I always I always but but the people who like to say they say do I say no you want to play our football our way doesn't it means my football my idea is especially different you know better than the other ones so I'm sorry guys so I'm sorry so no I'm not talking about now my football my idea is the other coaches and managers they are nothing I am a special no I'm talking about that is the way I believe like Tony polish when I appreciate a lot of Hit the que me Tony you are the best he take care of me he take care of me like never I manager to take care of me before so uh and and uh play in football or he believes and it's perfect I'm not judging about that that's the thing so so but they contacted to me to make something I believe and it's simple like that it's simple like that so it even say now is the real fun that no I'm not I'm not here to make a fantastic football for the beautiful I'm here to win the games I'm here to make the fact we have to find a happy when you win the games to make the financing to be there to fight in the Jesus but the way I want to teach us is in that way where they're making the past in the second team Barcelona and foreign in Germany and now here so I'm not judging the other ones what they're going to do I respect a lot I'm not talking about they are not good never set in my life never maybe it's completely different because that is a game and when you're playing a chess about the last champ find of the chess uh World Cup One play in one way and the other one that is that is what is nice and I can be to prove if in that way we can do that it will be able I don't know I will be success I don't know but after six months we made a good things and not a good things and sometimes in the right moment in the precious moment in that wow we missed our chance but Escape in the brain One Mentor before we put in the bowling net the best talent we have in the team like Kevin you scored the goal we don't we don't lose against Chelsea and after that they arrive and the first time a score of gold and after because we are crazy and go in front in front in front of fun we consider to contradict and we'll lose the game it's okay but I cannot go after that game to say something bad to the players to say we we tried we were what we we we we tried in in my way but the managers only we can do is try to fall to make the players follow you that is when we try to uh to do it's not going well how will they share hands today and I will get another guy will come here and when when I wanted to be honest to myself to be honest with my play to honest what I feel to convince from a place but I will not have success I don't have success so it happened all the managers all the miners are besack all the managers who win and lose all the money in November you lose the primarily all the managers in the world uh you're making mistakes of course do you think I am special different of course not but we were lucky guys we were lucky to have players like you like Messi like Philly land like Champions or like Lewandowski and that's why I had success when I went in person that many times the people say they win and I said many times personally we win because I have an amazing place and a huge Club it is in amazing place in the in the people say ah it's humble he is a fake Humber they said now now he's telling day one because had an amazing players yeah that's true that's true I said I said years ago in the uh okay because you were with me in the local because you give us you give us plan Direction okay no no no no listen I am because I am trying to do that here but you said before I will take longer so big because because here the Premier League the P that's why I said I want to try if I'm able to do that and I am here with thy intention to whoever is I'm able with my player student I'm the table I will insist I'm your table I will sit until the answer I was not able and you have to share hands another magic here I will support City because they gave me the opportunity to live in that country to live that experience and so on so football is not managed to arrive and said katak and everything is going to happen you would you're looking now you have a you are you have betrayed with arson with me with with a music with the best manager in the world and now you are a coach assistant coach you are there and you will see you are the days is there but it's not arrived it's like this no so sometimes you need a little bit more a little bit more time so that is simple like that

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Keywords: Pep Guardiola, Pep, Guardiola, Thierry Henry, Henry, Manchester City, Man City, City, Bayern Munich, Bayern, Bayern München, Barcelona, Barça, Barca, Interview, Tatics, Philosophy, Football, Soccer, Futbol, Premier League, Bundesliga, La LIga, Sky Sports Retro, Sky Sports, Sky Sports Premier League, Sky Sports Football, Sky Sports News, Soccer AM, Football Daily, Retro, Retro Football, Classic Football

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Length: 20min 59sec (1259 seconds)

Published: Thu May 18 2023