Pep fights to revive a boneless and perhaps satiated City, while his students take off: De Zerbi, Farioli and Maresca have shaped Marseille, Ajax and Chelsea starting from the seed planted by him, but they have made it germinate in different ways
As they say: ideas remain. They settle, they pose, and if someone continues to take care of them because they have to – and they have to do it because they believe in it – then they continue to show themselves, alive and grown, enriched by personal experiences and the passing of time. So in the season in which Pep Guardiola has to fight disarmed against the wear and tear of time that has undermined his City, certainly a little tired in (everyone’s) mind and perhaps also vaguely satiated by the many and often “everything” that has been, those that most naturally refer to him (they worked on it together, they always kept him in front of him like Diogenes kept his lamp, in the darkness) are instead continuing to show themselves, assert themselves, surprise and even win, as a final and non-motive speech of their doing.