The Pep Revolution: Inside Guardiola’s Manchester City

The authorized story of Pep Guardiola’s triumphant reign at Manchester City and the long-awaited third volume of Marti Perarnau’s highly acclaimed Guardiola trilogy

’Write about everything you see. Be as critical as you like.’ This is what Pep Guardiola told the journalist Marti Perarnau in 2023, when Perarnau arrived to spend a season as an insider at Bayern Munich. In the ten years since, he has followed Pep Guardiola across Europe, and since 2016 has been a fly on the wall at Manchester City, where Guardiola has broken records and revolutionized the Premier League with his radical managerial style.

This is the long-awaited, access-all-areas story of Pep Guardiola’s time at Manchester City, telling every twist and turn of their journey to the top and providing the definitive lessons of Guardiola’s leadership. The only true insider account, it’s an essential read for any football fan, and any reader in search of the lessons of one of sport’s great leaders.

Martí Perarnau, one of Spain’s leading sports journalists, has edited the sports pages of several national newspapers and created the long-running Estadio 2 program for Televisión Español. Since 2013 he has been profiling Pep Guardiola, resulting in two highly acclaimed books Pep Confidential and Pep: The Evolution, both about Guardiola’s time at Bayern Munich. Before his career in media and journalism, he participated in the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games in the high jump, in which he was the national champion.