Claudius Guardiola got it off Cruyff of course.
I can take something from that list, which is that Guardiola's mentored a generation of disciplies who, just as he always has, require enormous resources and ideal conditions to implement a very specific style.
One of the benefits of juego de posición as a tactical approach is that it makes the division of labour and the expectations players can have of each other, without the mediation of the manager, much clearer. So juego de posición makes it possible to control the chaos of scaled-up resources in the way historically system-averse clubs such as United and Madrid so often fail to do.
At Arsenal our players know this. If you want to play wide for us, you are required to press. That's it.
Now out of all those mentioned, Alonso is the only one to have achieved something outlandish, and he's just shown he's fallible at Madrid.
Luis Enrique, Arteta, Kompany, Xavi, Maresca, ten Hag … what do they all have in common? They've all been put in charge of top ten clubs by wealth, and none of them has ever won a damn thing without overwhelming resources and advantages. So we can't deny Pep's influence. He's shown a batch of wealthy clubs one way to improve the odds of converting money into trophies.
