Steve Bruce has made quite a worrying prediction about Manchester City.
For the past few years, life has been good for Manchester City as a club.
With Pep Guardiola at their disposal, they have dominated English football like no other club in history.
Steve Bruce makes worrying Manchester City prediction
The £378,846-a-week man did not dominate Spanish or German football like he has dominated England.
In Spain, Guardiola won three La Liga titles in a row before Mourinho’s Real Madrid side broke his Barcelona team’s streak.
At Bayern Munich, Jurgen Klopp did not get the chance to replicate Jose Mourinho as the Catalan won three titles in a row and left the club.
According to Steve Bruce, once Pep Guardiola leaves Manchester City, the club could suffer trying times like Arsenal and Manchester United.
Speaking to The Telegraph, Bruce said: “Arsenal haven’t won the Premier League for 20 years. Man City are the flag bearers now but will they sustain it? I’ve got a sneaky suspicion, in two or three years, when Pep has gone, it will be their turn to suffer.”
“If you’re that arrogant to think that it will just go on forever, you will get a rude awakening. Fergie [Sir Alex Ferguson] won 13 league titles. United might be the richest club in the world but if you get big decisions wrong, recruitment wrong and you have a churn of managers, you’ve got an uphill battle.”
Steve Bruce makes a fair prediction about Man City post-Pep Guardiola
In our view, Steve Bruce has made a fair prediction about life at Manchester City after Pep Guardiola leaves the club.
Managers like Guardiola, Ferguson, Wenger and Paisley are once-in-a-generation figures.
It takes years for even some of the biggest clubs in the world to adequately replace them.
As a result, it would not be a surprise if another club in England started dominating the landscape with City undergoing their struggles.
The managerial market lacks a coach, who is in their prime and can even be compared to Pep Guardiola.
With that in mind, even a top-class replacement at City will struggle to maintain the standards Guardiola did during his tenure.
As a club, Manchester City must ensure that Steve Bruce is proven incorrect and the successor to Pep Guardiola is of the highest order.
After having set the standards City have, they would dread the thought of becoming a club that is not up there with the best after Guardiola’s exit.
