Man City documentary exposes question that will follow Pep Guardiola this season

Manchester City's latest documentary, charting their Premier League success and Champions League heartbreak last season, lifts the lid on the incredible standards set at the Etihad.

There is Kyle Walker losing his mind over a fictional rating of his pace, there is Ruben Dias changing the club's approach to fitness with the supreme levels of discipline he brings to maintaining himself, there is an appreciation of the genius that Kevin De Bruyne brings to a football pitch that nobody else can. And then there is Pep Guardiola.

It is highly unlikely that anything would ever be published by club channels that painted the City manager in a bad light, yet no cameras could go above and beyond to highlight his magic if there were none there in the first place. Instead, the first episode highlights the managerial gold dust that makes a squad of winners still hungry to follow Guardiola after six years at the Etihad.

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Watching his speech inside the Anfield dressing room before they take on Liverpool is to see the players hanging off his every word before going to produce a monumental performance, and it is as enlightening to see his preparations for the Chelsea game seven days earlier. This is a man at the top of his game getting the most out of players at the top of theirs.

The effect of his efforts can be measured in trophies, and is also regularly said by players when they do not have to; at a launch event for the series, John Stones and Phil Foden praised the manager's ability to hold the squad together while Ilkay Gundogan proved the point in a different way by pointing out he was angry to be left on the bench on the final day of last season