Manchester United star calls Guardiola ‘immature’
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has hit out at Pep Guardiola for the way he managed the current United star during their time together at Barcelona, calling the current Manchester City boss as ‘immature’.
‘I’d scored a lot of goals in my first six months [at Barcelona] and we won two Super Cups. The first six months were perfect. After that, we changed system and tactics, and it wasn’t good for me, so the club told me to talk to Guardiola. And I told Guardiola that he’d sacrificed the other players for Messi. He told me he understood me. After that, he put me on the bench for the next game, the one after that and the one after that’, he said while speaking to Sky Sports Italia.
‘I’d walk into a room and he’d walk out. I’d go to meet him and he’d go somewhere else. I understood that there was something beyond football. ‘But the problem was his, it was he who hadn’t solved the problem with me. I remember on my first day, he told me that the Barcelona players didn’t turn up to training in Ferraris or Porsches’.
‘He wasn’t the worst coach I’d worked under, but he was certainly the most immature because a man solves his problems’, he added.
Ibrahimovic was at Barcelona from 2009-2011, netting 16 goals from 29 games.
