Thierry Henry on Playing for Pep Guardiola | He was a Freak 

it was cruyff's

He didn’t invent anything. Rinus Michels used it in the 70s for Ajax and Netherlands, Cruyff in the 90’s for Barcelona. Cruyff played under Michels, Guardiola played under Cruyff.

Yep, but how he devided pitch to 18 or 20 area and deliver to his player to understand and do what he want is absolutely amazing..

@@bcamplite621 exactly someone who know's ... cruyff did revolutionalise the whole thing... pep still uses cruyffs diamond till today

Pep goat

Pep in Bayern was shit PERIOD

​@@DC-bi3pnwth if he have The best start in bundesliga history, 3 bundesligas, a European Supercup ando other titles

@@alberthdiazfvf11 Team was an oiled machine, got him all requested transfers and he got tactically humiliated in all CL season. CL is only where it matters and I would always pass that crybaby and choker.

@@DC-bi3pn So, Mourinho in madrid was a shit period?

​@@DC-bi3pn you know nothing about football,

So you guys are commenting on RU-vid videos question mark question mark

Yeah we are very proud of him , and thanks to him and Petit , Viera , we french began to love Arsenal, this "shitty" club like the english people say , so good to see them bein angry at us for loving this unique club😂😂😂🎉❤

Which club do you support?..Arsenal. WHAT? This shitty club?😂😂😂love english guys

BS! Henry did that because he had no choice, but to do that. Zlatan has always made himself have choice. That is not the end of the world for Zlatan.

@@dammyb9315warra UCL for zlatan then, was that his choice too? Not to win one?

​@@libby4608warra?

Thiiiiisssss

not the same kind of player, Zlatan style was not good for Barcelona

People that think he was bad or finished at barsa were not watching him play. I watched almost every Game, he was absolutely genius

I loved him at Barça

He killed it and it was my dream, a dream i thought would NEVER happen. When i heard rumours in like yeah yeah theres always rumours. But then they actually signed him. Back in that time a player like Henry youd think hed be there until he was finishing his career. But he came still with solid years in him and he went above and beyond my expectations. I dunno what the hell everyone else was hating. I remember back then hearing and reading articles talking about how they are getting an aging Henry and hes coming just cause they beat arsenal in the champions. But man those days were so beautiful. He played some of his best in my opinion. Others say he was at his best because of his numbers at arsenal but i think he was better at barcelona. He was amazing and They did force him to stay on the wings a lot of times. But you could see when he came in after like 2 months he was sold into the system and he just ran with it. Everything i admired about his game. His grit, his strength, his speed but his elegance on the ball. Everyone talks about Iniesta but for a tall man that was used to just sprinting on and having his pick of the balls. He had to pick his poison and truly played like a man in his prime but also a veteran. I loved every second of it and i still go back to watch his games in Barca. Of course he had some of his most brilliant games skill wise mesmerizing goals wise in Arsenal. Skill wise he was at his best in Arsenal. Definitely more flashier. But techinical and making runs and just reading the game. He was at his best in Barca. And then you mix with his great touches and his amazing sprints. Even seeing him be a tad bit slower in Barca he was still fast. Hes in my top 5 of all time

It's definitely a waste of his potential given what he could do and the plays he could make. Of course he's still class so he's still going to put on a good show regardless but the game at barcelona was strictly around what Iniesta xavi and messi could do and making the whole team play as a unit.

🎯🎯

N still managed to have a decent goal tally

He wasn't in his prime then

​@@Noob-zi2ce When was his prime then?

@@josephrobert194When he was at Arsenal

The « great » Thierry Henry was just not so great when it wasn’t about playing against Middlesbrough or Charlton 😂 that’s it. So at Barça when he wasn’t on the bench, Pep asked him to do the only thing he was able to do, run fast and push the ball.

Same!

I thought I was the only one that felt that way

fudge me too

yep I agree

Nostalgia is for weak people.

😂😂😂😂

He was the best in the Premier league for sure but on the world stage, let's be real, he was up there no doubt, but he didn't do what others did

​@Alex21441 what didn't he do? Get real. Henry was danger!

Even Samuel eto was more on level with Henry than Henry on messi level​@@pradabazino

@@Yurgaayat Henry’s height Messi wasn’t even playing. And yes Henry was literally top 3 best strikers in the world during the early 00’s to the invincibles an era. And the football of them was different from Messi’s time. Get real!

@@Mark0s96 he was the best player in the premier league but in the world at that time? Nah

yeah he understands football. just have 100 times more money than everybody else and buy 3 sets of the most expensive players in each role

@@thisguyrighthere3 don’t have the most expensive player in any position. Chelsea and Manchester United prove money isn’t everything. Cry is free.

​@@thisguyrighthere3100 times? Go to school and learn maths

yeah in the kind of war like Israel vs Palestine where Israel has tank vs Palestine that has rocks

@@thisguyrighthere3and the tanks army still taking massive losses

Brazil 2002 was perfection. Now it's athletes who lack creativity and run.

Meh. Football should be Football mot full robotic. Klopp style over baldy

Cruyff didn’t just talk. He won a Champions League trophy. Put some respect on his name.

@@bcamplite621 Laudrup is Pep's biggest influence in terms of how his teams play and he was the blueprint for Xavi, Iniesta etc. Pep cried when Laudrup left Barca. Loved him.

@@Christoffski Laudrup is his biggest influence as a footballer. Not as a coach. Everything he knows about coaching came from Cruyff and from Michels before Cruyff. The things Guardiola does that people rave about like single pivot, false 9, 3-3-3-1, inverted fullbacks, etc, were done by Ajax and Barcelona decades ago, but people think Pep invented them because they don’t know football history.

i liked his shot on goal ratio. like 1 out of 100

​@@thisguyrighthere3 🙂

@@thisguyrighthere3, yeah. But that one was in a world cup final.

​@@thisguyrighthere3 this clown 😂

Henry didnt want to make a fuss cause he wanted to play but this is like buying Haaland and making him play as a GK cause you already have Hojlund in attack

@@thisguyrighthere3 not like that at all, ur forgetting they had prime messi at the time who scored more than a goal a game and it’s no disrespect to henry but he should adapt his game around messi not vice versa cus if u get the best out of messi u win any game. Also it’s not me saying henry was wasted cus all he did was make decoy runs, there was also other great players who made decoy runs for him, like i said the goal was for the team to score and u can’t be selfish. Being selfish might help u individually score 5 more goals a season but the team might score 10 less

@@thisguyrighthere3 Lool Bad or exaggerated example, Henry could play on the wings and barca already had other players who could score like eto and messi, he was also basically asking henry not to drop into midfield or play a free role because messi was 10x better at doing that. I don't see how that compares to playing halaand in goal and Hojlund in attack.

😭😭😭😂😂🤣💔 Zlatan hates his ass asf😂

It's bittersweet 😢

Very true. Ronaldinho would be subbed off in the first half nowadays.

Oscar Bobb

We had Neymar but he’s not appreciated enough, but perhaps that’s his own doing for the choices he made

We will never see a James Milner ever again.

But that Barcelona playing was beautiful the passes the control and the magic

Pep's Barca was a treat to watch. It was like seeing a painter create a masterpiece out of seemingly nowhere.

pep is not the creator of modern football ...lol it's cruyff & di not pep

@@dan-jeco_football Pep to Cruyff is like Lenin to Carl Marx.

@@PerryPerryYT something like that maybe (max weber instead of lenin for me)... just trying to tell that guy that pep never made modern football... you know, he might be very young and might not as well know the fathers of modern football..

Wdym the quality between them two is miles apart ( I get your point but don't use it as an excuse for grealish's lack of adaptation)

Except Grealish doesn’t have the pace and finishing ability to pull it off

Basically no

Its up to that player how to do the job asked

@@92mrcheese the henry that arriver ro barca wasn’t his fastest version tho

That’s why he is very successful. Nothing wrong with that.

Who are you again

Not for Henry

Exactly! Pep sees Iniesta and them as a better player than Henry, but he will not say it directly. Henry can't even see that it is an insult. Since Henry win some trophy there, I guess he doesn't see anything insulting about it. Difference is Barcelona really don't want Henry like that, but Henry wants Barcelona.

I mean, in 2008, one was a nobody and one was the best striker in the world

it's a team play, the one that yielded great success. But I'm afraid thats exactly an established Henry felt at the time.

He's Thierry Henry, calm down. 😂😂 Before Pep, Iniesta was not even anywhere near Henry's pedigree.

Henry is not the greatest player in PL history

He also wasn’t a regular player in La Liga, was still one of the best players in the best team, just had to share he limelight a little more. The level of quality of the premier league was definitely far above la liga even then but that Barcelona team was the best in the world at that time without a doubt.

Let me fix this one for you. One of the greatest players in Premier league out of his prime was a really useful piece in one of the best if not the best team of all time .

Right? Henry went there to be average. He would have been a greater legend somewhere else... Say Madrid

Tfym. He became a legend also got into arguably the best team in europe that time. The trio of Messi Eto and Henry was so deadly. They wrecked Madrid and whole europe winning the sextuple. He had a respectable 49 goals and 27 assists in 121 matches with tons of injuries but learnt about football in a very technical way learning more and more as a player which only made him better. Before he was a free striker and he even gained the mentality and the skills of a playmaker aswell. Him being at Barca made him improve more than he did at Arsenal but ofcourse his achievements will always be better at Arsenal.

@@f.n.rapidc8 With the way barca was dominating, there is no way an old henry would have become a legend at madrid. Remember robben, Sneijder were nobodies in madrid

Like bruhh..

​@aimanazrie8944Did it work this season in the ucl?

id love to see Pep at a club like Liverpool where you have an average of 20mil to spend every year

As curiosity would be nice to watch that. But seems unlikely, if he wins so much, probably offers will come from teams with big budgets. But definitely would be nice to see that.

Btw, over the last five seasons, average net spent by season: Liverpool was £43.6m (218.29 in 5 years) and City: £62.8 (314.28 in 5 years). And over that period there were 5 teams that spent even more than city in the premier. 😅 and 8 spent more than Liverpool.

@@arizavala5297 nah thats not true. We all know City only spent 5mil per season. They got those 12 80mil+ players by magic those 115 ffp breaches. ah thats just haters

I mean, the financial fair play is definitely related, but this data is net spent. Also never claimed they spent little. There were seasons over 100 net haha. But back to our original point, would be nice to see him at a Half/lower table team. But, as a coach that wins something every season seems unlikely he will accept a lower budget team. But I would love to see that haha.

Rubbish

having pires would be overkill. understandable since pires was already out of his prime at the time

So it 10 years time we will have tactical matches and NO individual brilliance of skills dribbling - The are no ballers anymore

​@@carlmorris7723 Pep guardiola has the dribbliest squad in the world😂 Yes we won't have 1 man show like Ronaldinho or Neymar, but Neymar Ronaldo and even Messi played in system squad. Anyway Foden is one of the best at dribbling, so as Bernardo silva and jack graelish and doku

And messis went up

Henry’s numbers had dropped in 07-08. He was already in his natural decline.

Sort of true. He requires absolute discipline in sticking to the plan in the build up, but he gives his players freedom to be creative once the ball is in the attacking third

Look at Mahrez and Grealish. I have to agree, but it brings results. That’s all that matters to me

creativity alone does not win games as shown by the galactico era of real madrid with beckham, r9 and zizou

@@peteremmanuelkitsamba4867 that wasn't my point but ok. Yes, peps way is so successful. But I'm talking about creativity. ....put it this way I'd pay to watch the galactico Madrid team than any of peps man city team. Plus his Barca team was exciting cos of Messi and without him they were like peak spain...boring but effective.

@@raymondisaacs2190 fair point. It's a result business first.

you know that madrid is in spain why did you right spain

And he happily accepted it because they were that good. ✌️

I respect your football tastes but you cannot say that the way Peps teams play are boring like it was a fact for everyone. I personally enjoyed a lot Barcelona playstyle when Guardiola was the manager and now I am enjoying M.City aswell.

I kind of agree with both of you, pep’s Barcelona wasn’t boring at all, it was beautiful football and I said that as a Madrid fan but I don’t really like city playstyle that much , too much possession, it’s not really tiki taka anymore, it’s too much robotic for me.

the greatest team in terms of trophies of all time is Real Madrid the greatest team in terms of prime is Hungary