Managers are often saddled with one particular quirk of their approach to the game. For Pep Guardiola, it was the tiki-taka football that made Barcelona a formidable force on the domestic and continental stages in the early 2010s; for Marcelo Bielsa his unconventional 3-3-3-1 formation.
He may not have pulled on the light blue shirt of Manchester City, but Thomas Agyepong has soaked up everything he could learn from Pep Guardiola's array of world-class players.
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