Pep's City

Pol Ballús is a Spanish sportswriter who moved to Manchester shortly before Pep Guardiola landed in the Premier League, with a brief to cover the growing number of Spanish players in England. He has since developed close ties with the players and staff at City and now writes for The Athletic. Luis Martín is a legendary Spanish journalist who has written on La Liga and the national team since the 1980s. He worked with Pep Guardiola on the 2001 book La Meva Gent, El Meu Futbol (My People, My Football). He has lived in Manchester and Barcelona during Guardiola’s time in England.

‘The Treble made them immortal... This is their origin story’ The Athletic; 'As an insight into the inner workings of a modern top-level football club, there's not much around to match it' Malachy Clerkin, Irish Times sports books of the year; 'A nuanced, access-all-areas study' Four Four Two