Agreed. What he did at Bayern was nothing special. Had he won the CL I would feel different but taking the best players from Dortmund [Gotze and Lewandowski] in a league that they already dominate for the most part to begin with, isn't impressive.
Bayern - agreed to an extent, but only to an extent as in CL (although he got to 90 points & 88 points in 34 game leagues - any other Bayern managers who have done that?)
People just look at things from outside & form narratives, how many knew he broke these Bundesliga records in his first season there?
Number of matches remaining when title was won: 7
Earliest date to clinch Bundesliga title: 25 March
Most points in a season opening half: 47
Most wins in a season: 29
Most consecutive wins in a season: 19 (previous 'record' was 14, see the difference)
etc.
There are definite parallels to what he is doing now in the Premier League, the records that are getting broken, the points that his sides are able to achieve. To call it nothing special is being plain ignorant of what he achieved.
People look at CL, & it is his comparably his weakness, but managers like Mourinho and Ferguson have the same number of Champions League trophies as he does after 'n' number of attempts, yet the expectation on Guardiola is to win the CL every season & is considered a failure even when he reaches Semi (which he did for Bayern), it's plain outrageous. Mourinho & Ferguson were 'geniuses', yet Guardiola is 'fraud'. The double standards when talking about these 3 managers in media/general perception is extremely heavy imo.
I'm just not comfortable with people doing Everton level gymnastics to convince themselves that he's just not a damn good manager. Many managers have had financial advantage before, none of them managed to break records like he did in 3 different leagues.