Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola has challenged Bayern Munich FIFA Club World Cup winners to take on his former team in Barcelona from 2008-09 to find out which side is the best.
Bayern beat Tigres 1-0 at the Liga MX on Thursday to become world champions and establish themselves in history with Barca as the only club to host the top six available titles at once. keep.
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The Hansi Flick side won the Bundesliga League, DFB Pokal and Champions at the end of last season, putting the German Super Cup, European Super Cup and Club World Cup in this campaign.
Barca Guardiola recorded the same trick in 2009, despite being on par with Spain, and was the only team at the time to hold all six awards ever and still – as a result of the record under coronavirus effect – the same side that won all six in the same calendar year.
“Congratulations to the whole Bayern family on their success in winning six titles,” said Guardiola, who managed the German club before joining City in 2016, in message on social media.
“I’m very proud. But I’d like to tell Hansi that you are the second team to win six titles in a row. Before it was another team, it was Barcelona, so maybe I can get in touch [Lione] Messi and company and we can play for the seventh title. Tell me when and where and we’ll be there! “
Messi won the winner in the 2009 Club World Cup final when Barca made history with a team that also included Thierry Henry, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Dani Alves.
Camp Nou still has three members of that team – Messi, Gerard Pique and Sergio Busquets – although many others have retired.
City will hold up hopes of signing Messi and coming back with Guardiola when his contract expires in the summer.
Sources have told ESPN that they will wait until March or April before making the move after it came close to signing last August, just for Barca to leave its bid.
City could go one thing better than Bayern and Barca in theory, given the extra prize available in England. They stay in the League Cup and FA Cup this season and are at the top of the league.
In addition, they are still in the Champions League, so they could win a rectangle, with three more trophies available next season if that ends.