Guardiola Invested 1.216 millions in signings, and did not reach him for the Champions

Chelsea FC of Tuchel lengthened the agony of Guardiola in Champions League. The picture londinense surpassed to the Manchester City by the minimum in the Stadium of Dragao (1-0), and left to the citizen picture without the option to raise his first Orejona in the history of the club, to seal like this a season excelsa with a triplete in his vitrinas.

Far it discerns already the last Champions achieved by the strategist of Santpedor. It was recently more than 10 years, in Wembley headed by a FC Barcelona that it was comandado by a transcendental Lionel Messi. Since, all has been a sumatoria of disappointments in Europe for Guardiola, that never has left to win the domestic Leagues, at the head of several projects multimillionaires.

The total sum, in this decade the teams trained by the Catalan technician have invested 1.216 million euros in signings to achieve the European crown. However, not even this astronomical investment, especially in the Manchester City, has been sufficient to go back to consecrate in the maximum competition to level of club of Europe.

Disappointments

After heaving with his last Orejona, Guardiola was a season more in the Barcelona, in which they invested 60 million euros in the signings of Cesc Fábregas and Alexis Sánchez. Nevertheless, his last course to the control of the Barcelona picture was full of altibajos. It titled in the Glass of Rey, the Supercopa of Spain, the Supercopa of Europe and the World-wide of Clubs; but it lost LaLiga in front of the Real Madrid of Mourinho and fell in semifinals of the Champions, precisely in front of Chelsea of Gave Matteo, that to the dessert was champion.

It was then when it decided to take a sabbatical year before initiating his new adventure in the Bayern Munich. In Germany was three seasons in which they invested 206 million euros in signings. They stood out the arrivals of Arturo Vidal and Mario Gotze, by 37 millions each one. It titled in the Bundesliga in three years, won two German glasses, a Supercopa of Europe and a World-wide of Clubs. However, it left the feeling that his European experience with the Bayern remained short, when falling in three occasions to the thread in semifinals of Champions.

Investment without prize in Manchester

Nevertheless, where for real Guardiola has had the opportunity of comandar a millionaire project and create a team to his antojo, without considering the price of the incorporations, has been the Manchester City. Since it arrived Pep in 2016, the sheik Mansour bin Zayed To the-Nahyan has spent 950 million euros in signings.

During the first summer, the cost went up until the 215 million euros and did not happen of the eighth of final. The record produced in 2017, year in that the citizens invested 317 million euros and remained in quarter-finals. Said round neither could surpass in 2019 and 2020, after paying 79 and 159 million euros in signings, respectively. 177 million euros was the figure that invested the citizen team in the middle of the crisis caused by the pandemia of the coronavirus. A quantity with which only achieved to finish runner-up of Europe.