Noooooooo! I wanted to see him and Klopp up against each other in international football lol
Italy can’t match UAE wages…
Is it tho the wages the problem? The believe any good coach can do what Guardiola does and achieve a good result.
In my view Italy are smart to reject Guardiola’s massive wage demands. I don’t pretend to understand Italy’s problems deeply but spending a significant chunk of your budget lining one guy’s pockets with money generally doesn’t help long term.
It’s a real shame he wont take it. I think he could inject some actual moral and a winning strat for Italy.
Thomas Tuchel starts chewing his nails…
I don’t follow uefa very closely — could Pep fix what’s broken about Italy?
Doubt it. Italy’s issues run deeper than what their national team shows.
Calcio hasn’t been really competitive in the last 15 years. Last time an Italian team won an UEFA tournament was in 2010 (Inter Milan). Since then, only three teams have made it to the finals: Inter, Juve, and Roma.
This wouldn’t be too much of an issue if Italy didn’t rely so heavily on players from their domestic leagues, but they do, thus the decline of their national team could be directly tied to the decline of Calcio in general. Guardiola wouldn’t fix that.
I don’t know about completely fixing them, but he could definitely improve them.
