Pol Ballus and Lu Martin
** NEW COVER & INTRODUCTION BASED ON EXCLUSIVE PEP GUARDIOLA INTERVIEW ON THE 2022-23 TREBLE **
Over his first three seasons in England, Pep Guardiola built something the Premier League had never seen before: a team that dominated games like no other, scoring goals and collecting points and trophies at record-breaking pace. Throughout that journey, the Spanish journalists Lu Martín and Pol Ballús were embedded with the club, reporting this inside account of how a phenomenal team was constructed: from the recruitment of Guardiola himself, to the backroom staff that provide the platform for his team and the superstar players that set a new standard in British football
‘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
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.
