Pep Confidential: The Inside Story of Pep Guardiola's First Season at Bayern Munich

The new book by sports journalist Marti Perarnau is dedicated to Pep Guardiola—one of the most well-known and influential coaches in modern football. It’s a story of wins and losses, inner fears and doubts, the joy of triumph and the price it comes with. The author, having been close to Guardiola and understanding his world well, conveys the atmosphere of those years from the inside, showing Pep’s path through encounters and stories of many people.

Guardiola seems to have many “faces,” but in each one you can read the character of a winner. He has long become more than just a coach: people see him as a sign of success and the highest standards. Even in his youth, Pep climbed to the top of European football, becoming the youngest ever winner of the UEFA Champions League. He left a vivid mark in La Liga, the Bundesliga, and the Premier League, setting a record for a winning streak, and he also managed something no one had done before—winning the continental treble twice.

The book covers seven years of Guardiola’s work at Manchester City: the move to a tough city and his unexpectedly strong attachment to it, building a team, cohesion and total commitment, a run of successes and disappointments, and new heights—because the secret of results is to become better every day than you were yesterday. AST Publishing House, 2025.