As Guardiola paced the touchline during Saturday’s chastening 4-2 defeat at Leicester, the exasperated Spaniard’s message to his players appeared to fall on deaf ears as the hosts ran rings around his bewildered team.
It was a shocking sight for City fans who had expected Guardiola to bring the swaggering style that won him plaudits and prizes in equal measure during his spells at Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
Less than three months ago it was easy to imagine Guardiola would soon be making room for more medals in his packed trophy cabinet as free-scoring City reeled off 10 successive wins in all competitions.
Yet that blistering start has proved something of a false dawn for Guardiola, whose arrival from Bayern in pre-season for his first experience of English football was heralded as the start of another dominant period for the serial silverware collector.
Having won three Spanish league titles and two Champions League crowns with Barca and then led Bayern to three Bundesliga triumphs, few were willing to BET against Guardiola conquering the Premier League in similar fashion.
Any doubters wondering how the 45-year-old would cope with having to rebuild an ageing and underachieving City squad in a league far stronger from top to bottom than those he dominated in Spain and Germany were widely dismissed by his advocates.
But there are growing signs that Guardiola isn’t going to find his City experiment all plain sailing.
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