5 differences between Pep Guardiola and Carlo Ancelotti?

#4 Training methods

Guardiola's training sessions were always intense

One of the main reasons as to why the Italian lost the trust of many players at Bayern Munich was due to his easy-going approach during training sessions. The Italian has always exuded the etho that the players he manages are already at a world-class level and don’t really need instructions or complex training methods to be barked at them for them to flourish.

At Real Madrid, it worked. It was supposed to anyway as the Blancos have always had quality players; what they needed was a manager that could keep the morale of the team high. At the Allianz, he had a player of similar class, but he had the misfortune of succeeding Pep Guardiola.

As Raphael Honigstein stated, the Bayern players wanted a lot more after being trained by Guardiola for three years. They might not have won the Champions League under the revolutionary Catalan, but his training methods were so intense that it improved every single player in the squad.

And after three years of being accustomed to working with new and innovative methods, Carlo Ancelotti’s easy-going approach wasn’t enough for them. So much that the players actually asked the board to instruct Ancelotti to train on Sundays, which he usually left as an off-day.