Guardiola’s strict rules for his players: ”If you’re two kilos over your weight, you don’t train”

Gael Clichy (38) has decided to hang up his boots in 2023 after a sporting career full of great results and achievements. He debuted in Arsenal in premier being an 18-year-old boy, where he was for eight seasons. In 2011 he decided to leave the Gunner shirt to join Manchester City, which at that time was not what it is today. It ended up being retired on ServetteSwiss team.

He kept up with Guardiola for a year

It is a year, Clichy’s last at the club and Pep’s first, but what year. The French left back is key to the schemes of San Pedro, Well, he played more minutes as a citizen than any other coach. That’s why he has many anecdotes about the former coach of Bayern and Barça. ”I’ve seen players who don’t train for weeks. If you are two kilos above the maximum weight after the hard work and proper nutrition of the preseason, you are not training,” he said to ‘Coaches Voices’.

One of the things that stands out the most is the importance that Guardiola gives to his men. ”He was the main one, the boss, but, in front of everyone, he put the coaching staff on his level. An example was one day, when we took a break to hydrate. Pep started talking to me, but the break time passed and the physical trainer pointed to his watch and shouted: “Pep! “Now, you can talk later.” So it is.

Gael would have liked to spend more time with Pep, because he woke up something different about him. And that he was trained for a long time by another great like Wenger, although he assures them that they have different temperaments, but are both passionate and ‘crazy’ about football. ”It gave a spark in my way of understanding football that I wanted to know more.”

Now he is an assistant Henry in French Under 21 teamwhere he is able to enrich the young players with everything they learned from Wenger and Guardiola, two legends of the banks.