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00:00Now, what's bringing a lot of controversy recently is the state of the EPL, particularly.
00:09I think a lot of what's been happening in European football runs around England.
00:13What Spain and Italy and Germany used to be, I know England is now the center of the world.
00:17Manchester City against Manchester United, Chiva and I were talking about off the air.
00:22What a game, my friend.
00:23What are your thoughts and what do you think the future holds for Guardiola and the citizens?
00:28I mean, after watching the Manchester City vs. Manchester United game, I told my son
00:31on the 82nd minute, do you think Manchester City is going to pull it off and they're finally
00:35going to win the game?
00:36He said, of course, there's only eight minutes left.
00:38I'm like, no, man, they don't want Pep in the team anymore.
00:41And boom, Manchester United won it 2-1.
00:44Nobody can believe this, only if you watch the game.
00:47But it's crazy.
00:48I don't know what's going on.
00:49I honestly think that they don't want Pep Guardiola no longer.
00:51The players don't want him.
00:52Le hacen la camita, como decirles en español.
00:54You read my mind.
00:56They're making their bet for Guardiola after so much success.
01:00It's clear to me that the connection between the coach and the players has been lost.
01:06What do you think, Nick?
01:07Eight, what is it, eight losses in the last 11 games.
01:09I mean, that's hard to wrap your head around for any coach, let alone Pep.
01:12But look, in my lifetime, I'll go on camera saying perhaps one of the greatest football
01:17minds as a coach that I've seen, at least.
01:20And if there's one person who can turn it around, I'm just trying to play devil's advocate,
01:24defend the man here.
01:25I think it's going to be him.
01:27And I wouldn't be surprised if they turn things around here under Pep, but that's if he stays
01:31around.
01:32Well, let's turn the ship, first of all.
01:33So if we go from City to United, this is a team, then again, that was coached for so
01:37many years.
01:38After Sir Alex Ferguson coached Scotland in Mexico in 1986, he went to a team that needed
01:43a boost.
01:44He gave them quite a boost.
01:45His farewell season back in 2013 meant the last title in the premiership for Manchester
01:50United.
01:51Ten coaches between interims, full-time coaches and caretakers.
01:56They haven't won anything, really, that we've seen so many.
01:59Ten Hag and Rak Nock, a caretaker.
02:02Even Ryan Giggs having a short stint as caretaker with Manchester United.
02:06But now Ruben Amorim.
02:07Do you think he can be the guy that can turn the ship around?
02:09I am convinced that the Ruben Amorim era is going to be the one that brings Manchester
02:13United to the luster that they belong to.
02:16The most telling sign that this was the right project is the fact that he decided to sit
02:21down with two players that for the last three seasons were completely untouchable, regardless
02:27of their level of play, which is Garnacho and Ruffo.
02:30And the fact that you see this coach coming in and saying, no, everyone in this team is
02:34going to have to earn their spot in the starting 11 by their daily work, their attitudes, how
02:40they wear the uniform, what they eat at the clubhouse, how they greet workers at the clubhouse.
02:46So I feel like these are the differences that make these institutions what they are.
02:51Is the culture within the club, is the love of the crest and how you conduct yourself
02:57as a player of these institutions, always chasing excellence.
03:00So I feel like in the field we are yet to see the results of the product and that's
03:06a high quest for Amorim.
03:09But we do see that the foundations of what he's doing in Manchester United is going to
03:13pay off because the players are going to, unlike Manchester City, are going to start
03:17growing in their pride and their trust of the coach versus a team that is maybe not
03:21so sure of what their coach is trying to put together.
03:23I think Nick brought up a great point when he talked about the LA Galaxy.
03:27This is a team that dominated the 2010s in Major League Soccer, so around the same time
03:31that Manchester United won their last title, 2013 versus 2015.
03:35In your opinion, is this a resemblance?
03:39Probably if we compare what Galaxy has done to go back.
03:42What do you think Manchester United would have to do to come back to this elite level
03:46that they're used to?
03:47Look, I think this might just be sort of, to get away from the Galaxy analogy, because
03:52as I mentioned in the beginning, that was a 10 year long drought, let's say, right?
03:56A spell, a dry spell.
03:58I don't think we're going to see the kind of same situation with either Manchester team.
04:02Look, first of all, both teams are struggling a lot with injury and that's obviously going
04:07to affect them very negatively too.
04:08And so that's a big part of it as well.
04:09If we want to zoom out and make this into a much bigger picture, we could make a much
04:14bigger problem, rather, we could, but I just don't see it playing out in the same way.
04:18I think this might be just a bit of turbulence on the.