Guardiola ‘absolutely deluded’ and losing ‘control’ at Manchester City as they chase Arsenal

An awful lot of time has passed since Pep Guardiola v Stan Collymore threatened to define the next era of the Premier League.

It was Collymore who volunteered himself to warn Guardiola that he would have to bend the knee to the innate power of the Barclays.

‘If he thinks he’s going to turn up and outplay everybody in the Premier League, and that teams like Watford, Leicester, Bournemouth, Southampton and Crystal Palace are going to let his Manchester City side have the ball for 90 per cent of the time and pass pretty patterns around them so they can get a result, then he is absolutely deluded,’ Collymore once wrote of a man who duly proceeded to win six of the next eight Premier League titles; there was eye-rolling at the claim he…