Raheem Sterling Compares game Under Guardiola and Pellegrini

Manchester City winger Raheem Sterling who is currently enjoying the free role given to him  by current manager Pep Guardiola has compared  his game  to when he played  under former Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini.

The 21-year-old English winger  in an interview with BBC Sport, said 'I feel a lot more freedom, I feel I can get on the ball a bit more and as I get the ball I feel I can express myself by taking touches and trying to take players on. I'm really enjoying it.

'Under the previous coach, in training sometimes it was always two touches and you kind of get into that way of playing and you forget your identity and how to play.

'That's not my style of play. My style of play is to get the ball and try to go at players. 

'Now I'm learning to mix it up as well and not just every single time go down a blind alley; know when to take two touches and when to take my man on.' 

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Manchester City Confirms Pep Guardiola as New Manager

Manchester City as confirmed the capture of Bayern Munich head coach Pep Guardiola, who has been in major demand by top clubs in  the Premier League with interest from Manchester United and Chelsea opted for Manchester City and will take over July  1 after the current  manager Manel Pellegrini leaves the Etihad Stadium.

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Guardiola Prefers Catalan to Spain

Pep Guardiola says that he would have chosen to play for the Catalan national team had it existed when he was playing.

The Bayern Munich boss won 47 caps for Spain during his playing career, winning Olympic gold with La Roja.
The Catalan side exists now, but as it is not recognised by Fifa, players are free to feature for it and Spain simultaneously.

"If there'd been a Catalan state, I would have played for the Catalan national team because I'm from Santpedor,” he is quoted as saying by Marca.

Guardiola, though, says that he has no qualms about airing his views.

"If someone is bothered by my participation in the process, it is their problem,” he added.

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Five Things You Didn't Know About Pedro

Barcelona F.C forward Pedro Rodriquez has become rather frustrated with  lack of playing time under boss Luis Enrique, and all but confirmed that he is heading for Manchester United.  

Louis van Gaal is ready to pay the Spain star's £22million release clause to bring him to Old Trafford, so how much do we really know  the Manchester United target?

1. The son of a petrol station attendant Pedro grew up playing on the pitches of a Tenerife sports centre which is now named after him.

2. The night he made his league debut he came on as a substitute for Samuel Eto'o with instructions from the bench to relay to Thierry Henry that the Frenchman had to move to a more central position. He recalls: 'I said: "Titi, the boss wants you to play through the middle" Henry looked at me as if to say "what the hell is this enano [dwarf] trying to tell me?".

3. He never knew he would be go to the World Cup in South Africa after only two seasons in the Barca first team. He was the 21st name to be called out by Del Bosque as he listened at home on the television in Tenerife with his family. Only Fernando Torres and David Villa  called out 22nd and 23rd  had to wait longer.

4. In his first full season, Pedro scored in all competitions and won six tournaments in the process. 

5. Having played for Pep Guardiola in the B team in the Spanish third division and winning promotion in the 2007-08 season and then again for him in the senior side, Pedro is an expert on Guardiola's motivational methods. 

He was part of the team that, ahead of the first leg of a third-division play-off semi-final, was shown a short film of Dick Hoyt the marathon runner who pushed his disabled son Rick in over 1,000 races so the two could compete together. 

A year later he was watching another short motivational film – this time based on the movie Gladiator which Guardiola used to inspire his players before the 2009 Champions League final in Rome.

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