Pep Guardiola
Pep Guardiola thinks that “undroppable” Bernardo Silva is one of the best players on the planet right now.
Pep Guardiola said: “Right now he’s undroppable because of what he is doing on the pitch. Sometimes Bernardo didn’t play in the last (two) seasons because he was not undroppable, because he was not on the level. The year we won 98 points in the league, he was the best – and I think it’s coming back. What he has done this season so far is difficult to find in Europe, in the world, a player like him right now. But the season is too long and I know the tiredness is coming, It normally happens because he is so (mentally) strong, amazingly strong – a huge competitor.”
But if they manage Bernardo’s game time in the right way, Guardiola feels he can have the same influence as he did three years ago, when he was the club’s player of the year. But now the manager feels the popular midfielder, who he described as “a lovely, lovely guy” may have come through his unhappy spell off the pitch.
Pep Guardiola said: “I have the feeling now he is happy here, with his personal life, and hopefully he can have an exceptional season with us again. He can play in six positions – he can play holding midfielder, attacking midfielder, winger, striker, false nine and the other winger. He can play everywhere because he is so smart, so intuitive, so intelligent. He is a player who knows exactly what is going on every single action of the game. The right decision has to be made, and he can do it. He does it. And that’s why he is the player he is, especially in the games he has played in Anfield, and Stamford Bridge, in Old Trafford, in Brighton – one of the toughest games of the season is to travel to Brighton – and Leicester. Always in those games he has played at that level, that quality. Hopefully he can keep on bringing to the field that hunger, that competitiveness.”
