Let Guardiola enjoy it because the next The Best should be won by Jurgen Klopp

Let him enjoy it because next up is Klopp. Two weeks after leading Manchester City to their first ever Club World Cup, the 37th title of his managerial career, Pep Guardiola has been presented with the first 'The Best' of his career at London's Eventim Apollo. Although Southampton and Arsenal prevented the Sky Blues from also winning the Carabao Cup and the Community Shield, and thus rounding off a historic 2022-2023 with seven titles as he did with the six-peat at Barcelona, Pep Guardiola is already the second most-capped manager in history, behind only Sir Alex Ferguson (49).

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This is the first time the Manchester City manager has won 'The Best'. Previously, and since FIFA's split from French magazine France Football, Claudio Ranieri (2016), Zinedine Zidane (2017), Didier Deschamps (2018), Jürgen Klopp (2019 and 2020), Thomas Tuchel (2021) and Lionel Scaloni (2022) had been crowned as the best male coaches.

Pep Guardiola's rivals to beat were Simone Inzaghi and Luciano Spalletti. While the Inter Milan coach led the Nerazzurri to their first Champions League final since 2009-2010, when they were crowned European champions against Bayern Munich, as well as winning the Coppa Italia 2022-2023, the Neapolitans won the Scudetto after 33 years. Since Diego Armando Maradona's time in the city. Very important merits at both national and European level, but hardly comparable to Pep Guardiola's second historic treble.

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Klopp goes for the next one

If Guardiola was given the award for winning several trophies, now Jurgen Klopp could become the top favourite to receive it in 2014 given that he has Liverpool fighting for the Premier League title, Europa League and the FA Cups. The German has already won it in 2019 and 2020.