City Documentary Lays Bare Guardiola's Huge Frustrations
The four-part series shows Guardiola’s clashes with players and boardroom tensions as City lost 9 of 13 games and nearly let Kevin De Bruyne leave.
- Amazon Prime Video launches 'A Beautiful Obsession' on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, revealing behind-the-scenes insights into the final years of Pep Guardiola's 10-year reign at Manchester City.
- Guardiola's final tenure faced significant strain as he navigated personal turmoil, including divorce, and a disappointing 2024-25 campaign marked by a testing run of nine defeats in 13 games during an autumnal slump.
- The documentary captures intense dressing room friction, including arguments with Kyle Walker, and a locker room outburst following a 2-0 defeat to Bayer Leverkusen in November 2025 where Guardiola threatened to quit.
- Boardroom tensions surfaced in released voice notes, with Chairman Khaldoon and Chief Ferran Soriano expressing anger over squad rotation, as Guardiola eventually stepped down after 10 years at the Etihad Stadium.
- Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald, the four-part series provides unprecedented access to the club's internal dynamics, illustrating the philosophical challenges of sustaining long-term success in elite professional football.
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A new documentary about the last years of Pep Guardiola in Manchester City exposes moments of tension of the coach with some of the main players of the cast. Among them, Erling Haaland. In one of the scenes of "A Beautiful Obsession", production of Amazon Prime Video, the technician gives a severe sham on the Norwegian striker during the interval of a final of the England Cup against Crystal Palace in Wembley. Ex-Bayern and German selection, bac…
Guardiola ended up deeply disappointed with the attitude of his footballers and decided to transmit his anger to them directly
Pep Guardiola speaks openly about his marriage-off with Cristina Serra in the prime video documentary "A Beautiful Obsession". Love is still there, but the passion is lost.
The Catalan coach exploded after falling 0-2 against Bayer Leverkusen in Champions in November 2025.
Pep Guardiola left the Manchester City bench after a glorious decade and now Amazon Prime releases a documentary that unveils all the secrets of the Catalan coach. ‘A Beautiful Obsession’ brings to light Guardiola’s great broncs to his players, even when he confessed to his boys that he was ... Continue reading “All Guardiola’s secrets in the City: from the broncs in the locker room to his divorce”
Pep Guardiola's Kyle Walker fallout and divorce turmoil exposed in explosive Man City documentary
Pep Guardiola's explosive fallout with Kyle Walker and the devastating impact of his divorce have been laid bare in a new documentary charting the final turbulent years of his Manchester City reign.The Spaniard, who eventually left the Etihad in 2026 after a decade in charge, is shown fighting back tears, questioning his own future and delivering a stinging dressing-room rebuke after captain Walker asked to leave the club.Walker departed for AC …
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