When I arrived at Bayern he asked me: 'How are you? Are you ready to learn how to play football?' Before, I thought the coach's job was just to set up the team. However, with Guardiola it's something different. He is addicted to football and because of that he is a phenomenon.
Pep is not the best coach in the world. I prefer Mourinho. He is the No.1, because Mourinho is more transparent and more direct than Guardiola.
Guardiola has never been a great player; he was just a good player.
Guardiola has helped me so when I receive the ball, I have space.
Guardiola improved me a lot as a footballer. He taught me a lot of things, and that's why, in every interview I'm asked, I always say the same thing: He is the best manager that I have worked with.
I don't hate Guardiola. These kind of feelings don't suit with professional matters.
Training with Guardiola is good. He's always talking to each player, trying to give them a vision of the style of football he wants to play.
The way Guardiola plays suits me. It enables me to get into space in attacking positions.
When you see Pep on TV or read his words in the newspaper, it is the portrait of a man who is the ultimate professional. But when you work with him, you don't just come to see him as a coach. You learn about his qualities as a man. It is that side of Pep Guardiola that the people on the outside don't get to see.
Obviously, Guardiola is a great coach. It's what I expected from the beginning. His style has always been there. It has little small changes every now and then because I think he also wants to evolve as a trainer by trying new things to get better.
The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Guardiola, Zidane, who's doing a great work, Tite, also doing a great job in the national team, Simeone. These are managers I would like to work with some day.
If you ask a million players who they would want as manager, they will come back with a top three list of Mourinho, Pep Guardiola, or Diego Simeone.
I went a week to see Mourinho at training, and another week with Guardiola. I learned from the two, I took important things from both.
What Guardiola has done as coach of Barcelona is really spectacular.
Klopp and Guardiola are two sensational managers.
I think Jurgen Klopp is doing a great job at Liveprool. The style of play is the opposite of Guardiola.
Bayern fulfilled every wish, no matter what Guardiola wanted: the players, the coaches, and even the doctors. He caused much disturbance off the field. But he is one of the best coaches on the planet.
Pep Guardiola is a very ambitious manager; that's a reason why he has been able to win all the trophies he has won in his career.
As a fan, Guardiola is the best coach in the world, but personal things that have happened to me were hurtful.
I am reading the biography of Pep Guardiola. I find it really interesting.
Guardiola is the best because he has won so many titles, because of the way he did it, and because he's adapted to another country with a very difficult language, and he's implanted his ideas.
The recognition and praise from Guardiola, a coach so important to world football, is spectacular.
If you have a negative model, you do negative things. If you have a positive model, like Guardiola, who says positive things and tells you to compete on the pitch and to play football, it's much better.
My style of play has always been 'Guardiola style,' so I've not had too many problems. At the same time, he helps you to evolve and to change little things, because it's obviously not exactly the same style of play as at Bilbao.
