Guardiola: People are right – I only won at Barca because I had amazing players

<p>The Manchester City coach says he fully agrees with those suggesting his trophy haul in Catalonia and Bayern Munich was a product of the talent at his disposal</p>, <p>Pep Guardiola says he will readily admit that his success at Barcelona and Bayern Munich was a product of the “amazing” players at his disposal.</p>, <p>The Catalan won six league titles in seven seasons as a top-level manager in La Liga and the Bundesliga, but his Manchester City team has fallen seven points adrift of current Premier League leaders Chelsea this year.</p>, <p>And Guardiola insists that those suggesting his trophy haul at his two previous clubs was largely down to the calibre of players he had to choose from are right.</p>, <p>“I will not have success? I will not have success,” he told Thierry Henry in an interview for Sky Sports . “This happens to all of the managers – all the managers are sacked, all the managers win or lose, all the managers in November lose in the Premier League. All the managers in the world make mistakes.</p>, <p>“Do you think I am special or different? Of course not. But we were lucky, they said – we were lucky to have players like Henry, like Lionel Messi, like Philipp Lahm, like Xabi Alonso, like Robert Lewandowski, and that’s why I had success.</p>, <p>“When I won in Barcelona many times, I said many times in the press conference, ‘We win because I have amazing players’. Huge club, amazing players. And the people say, ‘Ah, he’s humble. He is fake humble’.</p>, <p>“Now they are telling me, ‘He won because he had amazing players’. Yeah, that’s true! I said years ago, it is normal!”</p>