Zlatan, Toure, Gotze: 10 players who flopped under Pep Guardiola

Pep Guardiola will go down as one of the most influential figures in football history, and perhaps the game’s greatest manager ever for some.

A master tactician who has revolutionised teams wherever he has been, Guardiola’s brilliance cannot be understated. He understands the game like very few others, and is crucially able to translate that understanding into results on the pitch.

Beginning his managerial career with Barcelona B in 2007, he took them to the Tercera Division title in his first and only season in charge, before being given the first team job a year later.

What followed was four years of revolutionary football, establishing Barcelona as the world’s most dominant club outfit with a patented style of passing play that was good enough to decimate any opponent, while developing some of the greatest players to play the game.

Since then, he’s added to his trophy collection and furthered his legacy with Bayern Munich and currently Manchester City, the latter of whom he has established as a consistently top level club, capable of hanging their hat with Europe’s top sides.

But for all the romance around Guardiola’s incredible career and his legacy within the beautiful game, nothing is ever perfect. Not everyone has seen him as their prophet, and not everyone Guardiola has coached has benefitted from his teachings. Quite the opposite, in some instances.

Much like in professional wrestling where there the Bret Hart fans and the Shawn Michaels fans, or the John Cena fans and the CM Punk fans, football shares similarities, with fans and players usually being Guardiola fans or Jose Mourinho fans instead.

In this list, GIVEMESPORT recalls ten players who flopped under Guardiola.

Signing in his final season in Germany,