Overview
- A Beautiful Obsession, a four‑part Prime Video series that premiered 19 August 2026 in the UK and Ireland, shows extensive behind‑the‑scenes dressing‑room and boardroom footage from Pep Guardiola’s final two seasons at Manchester City.
- The films record a heated December 2024 confrontation between Guardiola and then‑captain Kyle Walker in which Walker says, “Every f***ing meeting, it’s my name,” and Walker left City on loan to AC Milan in January 2025 after asking for a fresh challenge.
- Guardiola is shown telling players about the breakdown of his marriage and using that personal crisis in team talks, and on camera he admits he came close to quitting the job during a poor run in late 2024.
- The documentary documents boardroom and recruitment debates as City began a rebuild, including emotional scenes about Kevin De Bruyne’s exit and sporting director Hugo Viana describing concerns over Rayan Cherki before his 2025 signing.
- Reporting places the on‑field collapse in wider context by noting the Premier League’s 115 charges over financial rules at the time and by flagging that one extreme line attributed to Guardiola appears only in single‑source coverage and is less corroborated than other revelations.