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Pep Guardiola has predicted that Champions League match winner Rodri could become the best manager of the future.
While one of Guardiola’s former players, Xabi Alonso, is coveted by Liverpool as Jurgen Klopp’s successor, the City manager believes his current midfielder general would also be suited to life on the bench.
“I always had the theory that good midfielders can be good coaches,” said Guardiola, who also played in that position.
‘Wingers depend on their actions, but a holding midfielder has to see the game from a global (broader) perspective. Rodri can do it. It depends on how eager he is and if he wants to.’
After a slow start to his City career, the Spaniard has more than justified the £62m Guardiola paid for him in 2019 to replace Fernandinho.
Pep Guardiola has praised his Spanish midfielder Rodri (pictured), saying he can one day become a top manager.
But Guardiola (left) said that “it will depend on Rodri’s desire” if he becomes a football coach
One of Guardiola’s former players, Xabi Alonso (left), is one of the most sought after managers in Europe at the moment and has been heavily linked with the Liverpool job.
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The 27-year-old is now hailed as City’s most important player (no small feat with Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne in the team) and was taken off at half-time of Wednesday’s Champions League match against Copenhagen. to keep him fresh for Sunday’s game. Match against Liverpool at Anfield.
‘Rodri was in a top team, Atlético de Madrid. We felt he was well educated, with quality on the ball and the right personality, but there is never a guarantee how well things will go.
“He is a much better player now than when he arrived. He arrived as a young boy and now he has the experience of many games, many minutes, having good and bad moments.
‘He has become a top-level player. Really important to us.”
Guardiola praised Rodri as a “top-line player” before highlighting how much he has improved at Manchester City.
The Spaniard recently broke the record of not having seen his team lose in the last 58 games in which he has been in the Manchester City squad.
Guardiola signed Alonso for Bayern Munich and they won two German league titles alongside Alonso, now coach of Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen.
Rodri has already entered City folklore by scoring the winning goal in last season’s Champions League final against Inter Milan, the first time the club became European champions.