The inside story of how Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta got the best from the England forward, including in their own words
Raheem Sterling joined City the year before Pep Guardiola left Bayern Munich, in July 2015, for a record £50m – at that time the highest fee paid for an English player. After a lacklustre first season, he joined England for their disastrous 2016 Euro campaign which saw them knocked out by Iceland in the last 16.
A disappointing first year followed by a disastrous summer. Enter Pep. City’s football director, Txiki Begiristain, had signed Sterling specifically in anticipation of Pep taking over.
Written by Pol Ballús and Lu Martín
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/oct/24/raheem-sterling-manchester-city-pep-guardiola-romario-book-lu-martin-pol-ballus under the title “‘The Romário-fication of Raheem’: how Manchester City transformed Sterling”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
