Gael Clichy on the evolution of full backs in Guardiola’s Manchester City side 📈

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Gael Clichy explains the evolution of full backs in Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City side, and how the inverted full back position came about.
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I think just leave this clip here I just want to notice something here you said before about the buildup of the two and three I actually prefer the three and the two because I think the two wide wider players can then step in but what’s interesting here is when you find

Yourself in this position is that fernandino there yes he’s actually now dropping in between the center backs to make the three so does that then mean so I’m trying to think of pepa’s coaching and the messages to you because the pitch is always changing so fernandinho

Is in here he’s trying to receive the ball from the center backs now fernandinho DRS in between his center backs does that mean then there’s more hus on you now to get involved and be involved in the buildup yes basically if you play with uh two Strikers then you

Will want the three to create that you know spare man and obviously when something like this happened I remember a session where we were playing like this and we were work on working on it the signal was fernandino goes there then obviously I have to come here to

Create the two and David will come in the half space and you find that box that you you you spoke about and and and all of this during my time was to leave the space free for the people on the side so again later in the in in his

Time you had Leroy San and you had Sterling and you had MZ so you can imagine being a right back having a one-on-one with 50 Ms in your back a player controlling the ball and actually you know driving at you of this quality is very difficult to defend you know Pep

Guardiola better than anyone you know you know him as soon as he comes to to England and we associated with obviously Ticky T great football attack and Play Goals is this a guy who puts as much emphasis on his training sessions and his setup of his team actually defensively and being organized

Especially for counter attacks but I think that’s what people want to see because we want to see you know we talking about West Ham and we’re saying it’s not enough because we want attractive football and we want offensive football yes of course but if you don’t concede goals you don’t lose a

Game and for him that you know phase of fullback coming in start with the fact that you can defend better because you have your strong Defenders actually set and always in advance to the Wingers so his first thought are defending if we lose the ball because the only way you can hurt

Pep’s team is on the transition or set pieces from that moment you work on set pieces you are focused and you know you don’t concede and you don’t concede the transition how don’t you consider transition having your Defenders defending rather than having your fullback really wide you lose the ball

And then you hop that’s very simple but that’s that’s that’s his that’s his aim come sit back back down Gil if if if um if Pep Guardiola you think you know you talked about this sort of this shift and coming full circle for Pep Guardiola now he’s got these almost four center backs

Across the back four times if he was to create his prototype fullback what do you think it would actually look like I think he doesn’t have prototype he he’s got the luxury of having a club that can support him in what he wants so for instance when we left he went to get

Benjamin meny and Kai Walker and he also had the luxury to play Fabian Del a Midfield who play left back when Benjamin meny got injured so I don’t think you can I think pep is very good at um he has his own philosophy but he’s

Very good at adapting to the team so the weakness of the opponent he will play on that today he’s got the chance to have the best defenders who are also very much composed on the ball you I will not name names but you have clubs that couldn’t even dream of doing it

Because the player are not equipped to have the ball and keep the ball and the pressure we can all keep the ball but to accept the pressure you know so you attract someone to come and last minute you find the third man you know through through your teammates is not given to

Anyone so he’s lucky because he can have both he can have strong Defenders who are mobile uh fast and that can play football I think it’s interesting what he said there sorry Dave is that we keep going back to that clip you’re involved in the fullbacks coming in and

And teams are doing that now in in different ways but after one year in the Premier League he almost went away from that and the two fullbacks you talking about meny and certainly Kyle Walker I remember last season I’m saying Kyle Walker’s not capable of going in there

To play into Midfield so after being here a year he almost B almost you could say h typical Premier League fullbacks you know powerful real energy to get up and down this the side so I mean it’s I always feel as if Pep’s slightly ahead of everyone and people are

Almost copying or trying to take little chinks and why wouldn’t you he’s the best but he’s now in terms of he’s put the center back in there now it’s Jon Stones isn’t it rather than a fullback own there it’s JN stones but not any Center back John Stones we can see it

With you know example Liverpool are trying with Gomez and it’s it’s working but it’s not working the way we expect and probably Club want him to to do so you have to recognize the attribute of your players and play on your strength you work with some great managers you

Obviously talk about Pep Guardiola as you know right up there as as someone who’s very special but what qualities would arson Banger have had perhaps that are slightly different that that maybe pep Guardia would have liked to have had I think it’s a different generation but

I think the the what arson had he was able to identify your strongest quality and make you great within his methodology his game plan accordingly to to your quality so if you look at the left back you had um B brost you had uh Ashley Cole you had G kichy you had

Karen Gibbs you had armad TR all different but in a way all similar on the right you had the same you had Lauren SAA e so I think in his head he had a game plan a methodology and basically he was going Soul Campbell Yan juru Pascal sigan Sandos so pretty much

The player that look to have the same attribute 442 and then EV in four 33 but I think that was his strength he was asking you to play with he wasn’t trying to develop your weakness he wanted to you he wanted you to play on your strongest points and I think that was

His uh his way and I think he did he did well like really well like this quick answer who’s the best left back in the world right now if if we count I don’t know it’s very difficult but if we count AK as as being a left back because that’s the

Position he’s playing you can’t really argue that he’s he’s he’s not up there but I really like Canelo before he left for for for for the argument they had I think at that moment Canelo is is the best in the position final thought Gail and it’s interesting a lot of the

Questions that we’ve asked you on on various things you’ve brought it back round to some sort of tactical analysis it’s clearly the way that you’re sort of programmed and you’ve mentioned a couple of times you’re working with tier HRI with France under 21 I think the Olympic

Team as well moving forward is this where you see yourself now and would you like your own team to coach one day and what would it look like yeah well you know it’s it’s a process really and when I left city after working with pep it was really the moment where I felt

Obviously I’m getting older so I’m starting to think ahead and I’m thinking when I’m watching this guy pep it’s actually beautiful to to see put aside the result and the silverware and the trophies and all the fame because obviously that’s that’s that’s his story but the details and the effort that he

Puts into every training session and the way he manag his group you like him or you don’t like him you will have different opinion it was beautiful to see so I’m thinking okay I’m going to try it and then obviously I’m going to Istanbul uh have a close relationship

With the manager and then from there I can either go back to France or come back to England and I decide to go to Geneva a smaller Club where I will have a little bit more responsibility starting to pass my budges and obviously since the moment I I started to work

With pep it’s hard for me to distance myself from his philosophy and the chance I have today is that I sto playing football and I find myself the assistant of cherry who is pretty much on the same I’m on the same line as as

Him so um would I want to be a coach one day yes would I be good enough we working on it but um you know eight years at Arsenal six years at City I’ve been champion in in Istanbul also um I’ve been lucky to have teams where we

Possess the ball and we we play attractive football will I be able to do it uh hopefully yeah hopefully