Arsenal Have One Thing To Fear With Pep Guardiola

Arsenal have not even seen Pep Guardiola in the EPL yet and they are already fending him away from their crop of talent. This time it’s Aaron Ramsey.

Arsenal does have a few things to be anxious about with Pep Guardiola coming to the Premier League. Particularly if they cannot win the title this year. While we don’t know what impact Pep will have at Manchester City, we do know the track record that Pep has every time he makes his way to a new team.

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The man gets what he wants. Pep came to Bayern Munich, right into the rivalry with Borussia Dortmund, and immediately took Dortmund fan favorite Mario Gotze, then proceeded to pluck Robert Lewandowski the next year. All under Jurgen Klopp’s nose. The now-Liverpool manager said that the club was powerless to keep Gotze. “He is a Pep Guardiola favourite,” he said, via ESPNFC.

Borussia Dortmund is a team that is run similarly to Arsenal. They build from within, establish a true team atmosphere and don’t overspend on luxury signings that come and go. However, even with that team atmosphere, Guardiola was still able to pick and choose from Dortmund’s stable, taking two of Dortmund’s prodigal sons.

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The worry this all leads to is simple. If Guardiola can yank two key pieces of Dortmund to their hated rival, the evil Empire of the Bundesliga, could he do the same to Arsenal?

Both Alexis and Aaron Ramsey are now tied to Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, given that Alexis played for Pep’s Barcelona and apparently Ramsey intrigues the Spaniard as well. While we would love to chalk this all up as hearsay and call it impossible, surely Dortmund felt the same.

Pep is a homewrecker. That is for sure. The one way you can prevent a homewrecker’s homewrecking is to create such a wonderful home that he has no power to wreck it. There is one simple way Arsenal can do this – silverware. And not just an FA Cup. An FA Cup may buy Arsenal another year, but at some point this club has to win something bigger.

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This isn’t Arsenal’s ‘last chance’ to win the title. That’s farcical. However, it is the best chance they have had in years. No one else is running away with the title and no one else got considerably better in January. So the trophy is there for the taking if Wenger can rally his threadbare army for the final stretch.

Pep Guardiola’s reputation precedes him in the Premier League. The only surefire way to keep him at bay is to welcome him to England on top of the league. Then it becomes more of a crusade to keep him from success than to catch up with him. Given his track record at Barcelona and Bayern Munich, it is pretty obvious that catching up to him is tough.

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Then again, this is the Premier League. And as Arsene Wenger would tell you, he needs to learn how tough life here really is.