‘There’s no doubt in my mind Pep deserves more credit’
PEP Guardiola deserves more credit for what he has achieved with City.
That is the view of club captain Vincent Kompany.
City have already landed the Carabao Cup and are odds-on to add the Premier League title to it – as well as being well placed in the last-16 of the Champions League.
While City’s style has drawn many admirers, Kompany insists more plaudits should go to the manager for pressing on with the overhaul he started last season.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that Pep deserves more than he’s even attributed to at the moment for how we’ve developed as a team,” said the Belgian centre-back.
“It’s entirely his vision, entirely his work and we have the responsibility to bring it across on the pitch, which is obviously not nothing. There’s a lot of leadership that’s helped us to get this far.
“Last season is something that I will always argue about because I don’t think we had a bad season. A lot of what we’ve done this season has been developed out of what we did last season. We were getting punished in many ways, like what happened against Wigan in the FA Cup, where they had one chance and scored and we had plenty of chances we missed.
“That happened throughout the season last season and that’s been the difference with this season, where we’ve scored last minute goals and the players have raised their individual performance levels. I was never worried because with good players these things eventually become good.”