Taking charge of Manchester City for the first time will not match the challenge of walking into the Barcelona dugout, says Pep Guardiola.
Pep Guardiola is keenly anticipating his Premier League bow when Manchester City face Sunderland at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday but does not feel this assignment is the toughest of his career.
Having inherited a team featuring the prodigious talents of Lionel Messi among others at Barcelona in 2008 and a treble-winning Bayern Munich in 2013, the common consensus has been that taking up the reins of a City side that limped to fourth place in England's top flight last term would be the sternest challenge of Guardiola's coaching mettle to date.