The storm had already claimed the lives of at least two people in China's Hainan and 16 people in the Philippines
While Spain is a world away from Manchester on a dreary day, the fallout from Guardiola's combustible relationship with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, whom he managed for an ill-starred season at Barcelona, and Jose Mourinho, whom he opposed in 11 'El Clasicos', is impossible to ignore, particularly since all three descended on English football's second city.
Ibrahimovic's spell at the Nou Camp ended with him branding Guardiola a "spineless coward" for speaking to him only twice in six months.
By contrast, the Swede regularly showers Mourinho, his coach when at Inter Milan, with praise, labelling him a "manager who lights up a room where Guardiola draws the curtains," an unusually colourful metaphor in football's normally monochrome lexicon.
For Guardiola, Mourinho proved a more persistent threat and the pair publicly clashed, swapping insults and barbed observations at every opportunity.
Many believe Mourinho was the real reason Guardiola suddenly quit Barcelona for a sabbatical in 2012, exhausted by the strain of seeing Real Madrid win the title under the Portuguese.
On the pitch, Guardiola normally emerged triumphant, losing only two of their 11 meetings in Spain, a record that extends to three in 16 in overall career meetings.
On Saturday both men take perfect Premier League starts into the fixture, with City sitting marginally above United in the table on goal difference after both sides won their first three games.
If the former friends ever get round to speaking to each other, which they have not done for years, Manchester's new managers might find they share much in common. Both have spent heavily in the close season - United £150 million ($201.45 million) and City 174 million - in refashioning their teams, a process that also involved ditching established internationals with Bastian Schweinsteiger sidelined at United and Joe Hart loaned out by City.
Guardiola's City side have adjusted well to both a new way of playing, with last season's two holding midfielders replaced by a more free-flowing style that has liberated playmakers Kevin De Bruyne and David Silva, and of training, with a stretching regime designed to cut down persistent injuries.
The storm had already claimed the lives of at least two people in China's Hainan and 16 people in the Philippines
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