If I was one of the top 5 guys in the sport, I'd probably require my guru not be working with anyone in the top 5 also.
I mean, you would never allow your football coach to be on the sideline making calls for BOTH SIDES during the game. Plus, in the hypothetical sitation where Guru gets 10% of John Doe's winnings, and 15% of Ralph Smith's earnings... he has a vested financial interest in peaking one guy ahead of the other, right?
Then again, maybe I don't know what I'm talking about and $ doesn't play into such things, who knows.
For the 98 Olympia, Chad helped prepare 3 guys, 1 of whom won - Ronnie, Flex and Paul Dillett.
As for Phil, he didn't peak on Friday like he did on Saturday. He'd have placed an easy 2nd if he had.
I don't think he's cocky or arrogant at all. He's just confident and well spoken. During the pre-Olympia predictions, he predicted Jay to win and himself to place second, which was pretty close to what happened. And in one of the MD clips, he mentioned that he trains to win a contest, which is the kind of frame of mind someone in his situation ought to have.
Examples of being cocky / disrespectful would be Shawn Ray post 94 Olympia, when he said Dorian had a couple of years left to guest pose. Another example is Ronnie saying in 2004 that Jay needed to be reborn with better genetics to beat him. Phil is just saying that he trains to win, in no different a way than Kai and Oscar talked about Kai winning the Olympia on his debut. Nothing wrong with that.