If you were to buy into the Pavlovian reaction for Manchester City going out of the Champions League, then it's clear that except for his ridiculously tight pants, the emperor has no clothes. In just 45 inchoate minutes at Monaco's Stade Louis II, Pep Guardiola went from a messianic coaching genius who won 21 trophies with Barcelona and Bayern Munich to Harry Redknapp incarnate. Or so you'd be led to believe, if you waded through the progressively more hysterical post-mortems following City's "Pepexit."
C'mon, people get a grip. Not everyone can be Craig Shakespeare.
Just because City was outclassed by a thrilling young Monaco side that made up a two-goal first-leg deficit to win the 6-6 aggregate tie by virtue of having scored far too many times at the Etihad, doesn't mean the most celebrated manager of his generation has lost his mojo.