Both Guardiola and Raymond are football personalities who grew up with La Masia ideals.
During their time working together at Barça, they encountered numerous players with exceptional footwork.
These types of players are as plentiful as cattle in Barça. There's no need to look at the first team; just pulling a random one from the youth team, you'll find a dribbling master with delicate footwork, who wouldn't fall short compared to any Premier League main player.
However, footwork skills might be trained through hard work, but the big picture view and anticipation, especially like Tang Long's interception of Bo Yang's pass in the match against Stoke City, are what truly set apart a star player from an ordinary player.
"That gap should have been Delph's area, but he was out of position, giving Bo Yang the chance for a direct pass."
"Slow Motion shows it was almost at the moment Bo Yang raised his leg that Tang started moving from an unrelated side."
