Netflix airs every word of Pep Guardiola epic rant at Man City stars after Southampton defeat

One of the most explosive scenes in the Netflix documentary covering Manchester City last season came at Southampton.

Pep Guardiola's side had just produced the worst performance of his seven years at the club with a tame exit in the quarter-final of the League Cup in January 2023. At that stage of their season, it was unclear if they would go on to win any trophies in the campaign never mind three.

City's manager was under no illusions that his players could not carry on with anything similar, unleashing one of his all-time rants. Featuring exaggerated pauses, heavy doses of sarcasm and gestures in the dressing room, here is every word that the players had to endure:

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"Tell me the explanation for today. Tell me.," he said.

"Do you think it’s normal? The way you performed? The problem, you’re starting the problem. In the game, something happens and everyone, heads down. There is no one to do something.

"Honestly, do you think it’s normal what today we have done? For this club? Do you think it’s normal?! For the guys who travel, who don’t have money to pay their heater at home, to come here to follow us to perform in this way? Do you think it’s normal? ….WOW.

"My team is not like that. We’ll be in trouble. We’ll be in trouble. I don’t accept that [wagging his finger]. Sport, life is body language. How you approach life, how you approach the game. This is body language, and when you make a bad pass and the other complains like this [turning away] you can start bad but you have 80 minutes left to play, how do you react?

"‘Ah they scored a goal, ah a