Pep Guardiola: Real Madrid would have sacked me last season

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Pep Guardiola has backed Xabi Alonso to turn his situation around at Real Madrid despite admitting his record at Manchester City last season would have got him the sack in the Spanish capital.

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00:00Talk today and here in Madrid has been about Xabi Alonso and his position.

00:05Do you have sympathy with your opposite number in this match? It's obviously a huge game.

00:10You know what it takes to manage these kind of clubs in this particular competition.

00:15Do you have sympathy with the questioning he's facing ahead of what is a huge game for the club?

00:19Of course, I have sympathy because we were together one year and a half, two years. It was an

00:24incredible experience being with him, not just as a manager. So we share many,

00:31many things, families as well. So Barcelona Madrid are the toughest opponents, the toughest clubs,

00:37I would say, to be a manager. The more difficult ones for the pressure, for the environment. So

00:43last season, I've done last season, I have been sacked six months before the end of the season. So

00:48it's a difficult place, but he knows it. He has been here. He knows the reality. It's a

00:54question of winning games.

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