'Guardiola will easily win the Premier League'

Jan Kirchhoff believes Guardiola wll revolutionize the Premier League next season when he takes over at Manchester City, and will lead the Manchester club to title glory. 

"Pep Guardiola’s going to win this league and change this league like you’ve never seen before," Kirchhoff told The Guardian.

"I’m totally sure. He’s going to build one of the greatest teams at Manchester City and win the league without any trouble. You’re going to see a totally different way of playing. It’s one of the best situations English football’s going to have for a long, long time."

The 25-year-old who was at Bayern for three seasons, believes the importance Guardiola places on youth and the way he sets his team up will improve English football drastically, and he insists that the Spaniard had a key role in Germany's World Cup win in 2014.

"This is the same situation we had in Germany maybe five years ago," Kirchhoff added. "We had a lot of young, talented, homegrown players getting into our best teams – and these teams had really good coaches: Jurgen Klopp at Dortmund and Guardiola at Bayern. And the national team exploded. 

"I don’t think we won the World Cup because of our unbelievable national head coach [Joachim Low]. I think we won it because of Guardiola and Klopp. It was because these talented players were taking all the football knowledge they’d learnt from their club coaches into the national team.

"It depends how many English players Guardiola has at City. But everyone who plays for him will tell you he makes you so much better. You understand this game in a totally different way.

“If Guardiola has a lot of English players they’ll improve and make the England team better. It’s the same with another coach I really like: Mauricio Pochettino. You can already see the influence of Pochettino’s Tottenham on England. All his players know what to do, have a good reading of the game and are so intelligent, technical, unbelievable. 

"I think the whole league’s going to be better for Guardiola and Pochettino – and Klopp at Liverpool."