Get the biggest City stories, analysis and transfer updates delivered straight to your inbox Pep Guardiola thanked Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp for inspiring him to become a better manager and earn more success at Manchester City.
The managers have battled for supremacy first in the Bundesliga and now the Premier League over the past decade, and this season the City boss has given an emphatic response to those questioning whether he could achieve success again having been bested by his rival last year.
Despite the rivalry between their teams the two coaches have great respect for each other and Klopp sent a message of congratulations to Guardiola and his former player Ilkay Gundogan when City's Premier League win was confirmed on
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