Hello Pep, congratulations.
You admitted last night that
you knew that it was going to be a difficult game.
Did it pan out how you expected it to?
First of all, my first word is for Inter Milan,
for congratulate them for just the performance.
I know what they feel, because we felt it two seasons ago.
There is no words that
can handle the pain.
But also I want to tell you that it’s the second best team in Europe.
When you are the second best team of Europe is incredible.
The second thing I would like to say
is for my sporting director and my CEO.
I would say my chairman that normally when you don't
get the Champions League, after many years, you are being sacked.
So how many clubs
just for not winning this competition, destroy the projects in this club.
The strong of this club is that not winning, that everyone say you have to win
it, you have to win it, you have to win it.
They was there.
They were there. They were there to continue to do it, and at the end.
Sport is like that.
So, sometimes,
It looks like this competition, this year, this final. It was written in the stars.
Because I will not confuse for the fact
how happy I am, but at the same time they could score at the end.
The goal, the chance that they had that Eddie saved, you’re going extra-time.
And you can lose the game. And I will be the same person.
We will be the same team, will be the same club.
Today was our year.
But in the past, don’t do it.
Of course, very incredibly satisfied for the something unique, the Treble for this club
and the feeling that they have right now with winning the Champions League,
give credit, for the five Premier League’s in seven years.
Two FA Cup’s, four Carabao Cups, Community Shields.
They give personality to create what we have done.
You has to win the Europe, to be considered one of the really good
good team and we did it suffering.
We cannot expect differently because Inter is an exceptional team.
The physicality, the patterns they do.
But sometimes you need this
type of luck that in the past against Tottenham against
other games, against the final even with Chelsea that we didn’t
we didn't have it. So today, we have it.
You’ve obviously not just won the Champions League, you've done the Treble.
What kind of emotions does that mean to you and the players after.
I'm fine.
I'm not over...
You know, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow we will,
I remember when I was a football player, we won the Champions League with Barcelona in ‘92,
And after with the manager I celebrated.
The day after, two days after we realised what we had done,
It had been really, really great.
We struggled in the first half to find our men free,
because we didn’t expect the movement that they did it.
We didn’t expect Calhanoglu jammed to Rodri.
So the space was with John Stones and Rodri and especially Ruben and Akanji.
We didn't find it.
And at the second half we adjust a little bit, we scored a goal.
A brilliant one for the movement from Manu, Bernardo and Rodri.
Then after you have the second one
from Phil Foden and the last minutes they were better.
They put incredible Onana, like a holding midfielder
in positions, a holding midfielder to put balls
to Lukaku and said the balls, run there, and we struggled.
And yeah we have an incredible keeper with Eddie and save us the balls.
He should save.
How long will it take you to come to terms with what you've achieved
over the last three weeks and,
get ready to go again? - No, don't talk to me about going again!
Let me break, please. Don’t ask... - The world moves on very quickly.
My chairman said, Oh, London is next season.
The final of the Champions League.
And I don’t tell you my answer to him
because will not be proper.
So we have time.
You have to think about it with next season.
But next season will be next season.
So now it’s time to celebrate it.
I’m looking forward to Manchester on Monday afternoon to put in our coach and bus.
The three trophies, how nice it will be.
It is an honour for me, an honour for me, to be alongside Sir Alex Ferguson in that situation.
I have to say I got a message off him, this morning, in my phone,
that touch me a lot.
So it is an honor for me to be with him in
this, in this place. It’s so nice.
First of all, congratulations on that win.
We know that Pep Guardiola always prepare the game out of the box,
you are preparing new team with some special ways.
In 2009, it was that video with Viva la Vida,
with Enya, from Gladiator.
Yesterday, or today. What was that special thing?
Not even one word.
No videos, nothing. Nothing.
We feel more comfortable just preparing the game.
We tried to prepare for the game like it was a Premier League game.
We had done the same and we hadn’t done anything.
anything, nothing, nothing, nothing,
special. Nothing.
Absolutely normality, absolute normality.
Given the expectation on you to win the Champions League
and difficulties this season, how does this rank in terms of your,
your seasons at City. Your seasons as a as a manager?
Listen one of the main reason why this club became what we are
it is because people from Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mansour, take over the club.
Without that, we will not be here.
They’re the most important people.
And after, I would say,
one idea, it doesn't matter which one.
And during many, many, we followed this one.
So not for winning the Premier League’s.
or not winning the Premier Leagues, lose the Champions League.
We changed, what we believed, for this is the best.
They support me unconditionally.
In the defeats in this competition, in many clubs when this happens,
you are sacked, and it was completely the opposite, that's why you give
incredible credit to my hierarchy, my sporting director, my CEO.
Because when you give a message to the players,
to all of you, to the fans to say this is it, this is the way.
But honestly, I'm not going to be confused for the fact today we could have lost the game.
It would be the same. When in the past,
when we lose the game, we were failures, it was
a disaster and it were a losers and this kind of adjectives.
So we are the same, absolutely people.
This year, it was written in the stars.
So this year Manchester City must win and of course win Bayern Munich,
Real Madrid and Inter Milan. It’s because we deserved it.
You said before this that winning you had to win the Champions League.
for people, to be a top, top team. But you’ve spoken, repeatedly in the past,
about Real Madrid being the benchmark, because they always win the Champions League.
Is that something
that City can dream of doing, now that you finally broken this barrier?
Yeah.
You are just 13 Champions League away
or behind them. So, just 13.
So be careful Real Madrid, because you are in our way.
So we've used lip a little bit.
We will catch you.
We cannot compare events,
now we have the first
you know, when the people would say, you know, Manchester City's already
the first Champions League and
but I don't want, after one Champions League, disappear.
So we have to work harder in the next years, next season,
and be in there.
So there are teams that win the Champions League and after one or two seasons disappear.
This is what we have to avoid.
Knowing me, this is not going to happen.
But in the same times, I have to admit it is a big relief,
for the club, for the institution, for everyone.
To have this trophy.
Because now, finally, the annoying to ask me
about if we are going to win the Champions League or not.
So now we have to prepare.
Next question Jamie.
Hi, Mr. Guardiola.
Congrats. Congratulations.
Now you’ve won all competitions,
and Haaland is the clear favourite for the Ballon d’Or, with Messi.
Who would you vote for, if you could vote: Messi, or Haaland?
Was it easier to win the Champions League with Barcelona or with Manchester City?
Sorry.
Was it easier to win the Champions League with Barcelona or with Manchester City?
Always it is so difficult to win this competition.
Always it is so difficult.
It is something unique and special. You play with the anxious for the,
That’s why,
the biggest clubs played this competition as a friendly game,
and today we didn’t play as a friendly game.
We felt the pressure. But it's normal.
I remember ‘92 I won with, we won with Barcelona,
the first Champions League in their history after losing three or four times.
We played against Sampdoria, an Italian team,
It was quite similar team like like today.
We suffered and we felt the pressure.
Except one player, Ronald Koeman,
he played unbelievable.
He played like, in his garden.
The rest of us, we felt a lot of pressure and we won 1-0.
Almost there, before the penalties and Koeman scored a goal and we won it.
I know how difficult is for the first time to win it.
Man United won the Treble,
you remember the way they won it in Barcelona against Bayern Munich?
1-0 down and two goals for Olé
and, I don’t know, Sheringham Sheringham the other one.
So it happened the first time, maybe in the future it will be, I’m not saying easier.
But maybe it will be more comfortable, just in case we arrive.
I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. So.
But that why we have to be strong here.
Here.
I said that you are going to suffer to have
just little, little of lucky that you have to have.
You said before that it is a relief to win it.
How heavily has that weighed on you,
as a manager over the years that you’ve got close.
But not been able to do it, and people keep mentioning it.
It must be quite emotionally draining?
No, I honestly, I was more over happy against the FA Cup,
against Man United than today.
It was incredible, satisfied but I’m okay.
And, the question sorry?
How heavy has that weighed on you over the years, that you have to do it?
Yeah.
Now listen, I answer for this, especially this season.
This in an entire world.
Entire world.
That means I am a great, the entire world say it,
If we don't win the Champions League, it will not be complete.
If we don’t win the Champions League, it will not be enough.
We have to admit it. We have to accept it.
Maybe it's me that I'm wrong that winning this five Premier League’s or winning what
we have won. Arrive in three years in two finals of the Champions League,
One semi-final. This is exceptional. Exceptional.
But everyone say no, no, no, no.
You have to win.
People expect that I have to win trebles every season.
I'm good manager, honestly.
Thank you so much, Pep.
I'm good,
but not good enough to win trebles every season, you win, champions
every season and when champions are so difficult, except you are,
last season Real Madrid like had the ability to do it
year in, year out.
So the other ones sometimes arrive and do it.
And of course not
just for me for the club itself, for our CEO’s, for our players,
and have everything but the Champions League. The Premier League,
but you didn’t win the Champions League. Pretending that the Premier League is nothing.
No, like we won five times.
Premier League is there's nothing.
I like this competition for the fact
that we won it, definitely. For it will be part of the history.
The players know that it will be remembered for the rest of their lives.
But for the fact now, give five Premier Leagues.
Now give credit for the five Premier League’s that we won in the last six years, seven years together.
So that is where it is.
So, of course, is important because the people start to forget about it.
They just focus now, you know, to maybe a start to the club,
to think about it, to create a museum, to put out all the trophies I started
to put in there and all our friends can visit them quite regularly
because we have done in the last six years, in terms of titles is unbelievable.
Unbelievable. It’s not just the Champions League.
It's many, many, many titles, behind the Champions League.
And I would like to know.
If this was the match that you prepared and imagined for, or maybe the game,
turned into a different...
I would prepare a lot.
A lot.
Since we beat Real Madrid, of course we've had the Premier League.
But after when we won the Premier League, of course we had the FA Cup final against United.
But the mind sometimes goes,
when we went to the final against Inter, we didn’t know them much.
But we saw a lot of games and I didn’t expect different to what happened today
We missed a little bit our composure. Especially with the ball.
To have, you know, come here opponent, I’m going to play there.
Come here opponent I’m going to play there.
And we were a little bit, we moved too much.
But it’s normal.
We believe Rodri will be alone, then after Gundo will be alone.
And Rodri will not be alone because John should be alone.
And we didn't read it.
And that’s why we struggled. The second half was a little bit better,
because except the last, I would say 10 minutes,
like they had the chances,
Except for one mistake from Ederson,
and from Manu, the second half the rest, they didn’t create much.
and the turning point was the excellent action from Phil
and he was a little bit anxious
to finish this action is a little bit what we was during,
during the game but I've been here as a football player, as a manager.
It’s completely understandable,
that the players felt it, because they have it there.
We want to win the Champions League.
We want to win the Champions League. When this happened, sometimes you are
not you, and that's why we play not in our level,
but the other case, it's normal.
Thank you, guys. - Thank you guys.