He asks the question as if nothing had happened but knows the small effect that will follow. "Remember how we did it before the smartphone? Well, in football, it's the same thing. How did we do it before Guardiola? ». For more than fifteen years, Thibaud Leplat, a philosophy teacher well known to football fans, has been fascinating the Manchester City coach. In 2015, this Madrilist, also a journalist, dared to publish a book on the Catalan technician: "In praise of style", almost a thesis on the philosophy of an "artist". Let's face it, this man is not alone. Like some singers, filmmakers, intellectuals, the Catalan attracts or repels. Sometimes even both at the same time. A question of cycles, teams, results...
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