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LONDON. — Pep Guardiola has implemented a strict regime of discipline on his Bayern Munich players in a bid to mentally toughen them for the new soccer season.
The squad were subjected to a talk from their head coach at the beginning of the season, in which he outlined his new stick over carrot approach, and reportedly told them, “from now on, this is all completely compulsory”.

At the centre of the new idea is a rigorous system of fines for small indiscretions, which the German press have christened ‘Guardiola’s punishment catalogue’.

Punishable indiscretions involve arriving late to team meetings, not observing dress codes, failing to put dirty clothes in laundry bins, and taking phone calls on the first floor of Bayern’s training ground HQ on Sabener Strasse. — Mailonline