Pep Guardiola's comments on Thiago Alcantara tell Liverpool fans everything they need to know - and send a warning to the rest of the league. "He has so much quality, above all his mentality," Guardiola once said of the Spaniard. "He always thinks that everything is possible.
He has no fear." A ringing endorsement from one of the world's best managers - a man who's job it is to try and stop Thiago in his tracks this season.
Guardiola worked with Thiago at Barcelona when he was much younger and behind Sergio Busquets in the midfield hierarchy at the Camp Nou.
But the Manchester City boss could see he possessed a lot of class and wasted no time snapping him up as soon as he moved to Bayern Munich.
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