Former Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has told Marca he believes his successor Pep Guardiola will have a good appreciation of his achievements at the club.
Pellegrini won the 2014 Premier League title and two League Cups before making way for Guardiola last summer.
After amassing 21 trophies in seven years with Barcelona and Bayern Munich Guardiola arrived with a huge reputation, but he is taking time to settle at City.
They have been inconsistent at times and are in second place, eight points adrift of Premier League leaders Chelsea.
Pellegrini said: "I think he [Guardiola] values my work a little more in those three years. It is not easy to win the Premier League.
"Perhaps many thought that with the arrival of Pep, they would win the Premier League with 15 points difference -- and no, in England this is not the case."
City had pursued Guardiola for years before finally appointing him and, when it had become clear that he would join them, Pellegrini announced last February that he would leave at the end of the season.
Given that form subsequently deserted his team, he said he accepted that decision had been a mistake.
Pellegrini, now in charge of Hebei China Fortune, said: "If you ask me if today I would have done otherwise, I say yes -- I would have waited until the end of the season.
"It was my initiative but I would do it differently. But there was so much rumour. It bothered me."