Ibrahimovic's Row With Guardiola

[The Fat el Hombre]

This is class. Sorry if posted:

ON BARCELONA, GUARDIOLA AND MESSI
"It started well but then Messi started to talk. He wanted to play in the middle, not on the wing, so the system changed from 4-3-3 to 4-5-1. I was sacrificed and no longer had the freedom on the pitch I need to succeed. So I asked for a meeting with Guardiola - for a discussion, not an argument. I said I was being used in the wrong way and that they shouldn't have bought me if they wanted another type of player. I told him what a friend had said to me - "you bought a Ferrari but drive it like a Fiat". The chat seemed to go well but then Guardiola started to freeze me out. I would walk into a room; he would leave. He would greet everyone by saying hello, but would ignore me."

''I had done a lot to adapt - the Barca players were like schoolboys, following the coach blindly, whereas I was used to asking "why?" I like guys who run red lights, not pedantic and strict rules. So I tried to be overly nice, didn't dare lose my temper. But after this I stopped trying to adapt. For example, at Barca players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. I thought this was ridiculous - it was no one's business what car I drive - so in April, before a match with Almeria, I drove my Ferrari Enzo to work. It caused a scene.''

''Pep was staring at me and I lost it. I thought 'there is my enemy, scratching his bald head'. I yelled to him: 'You have no balls!' And probably worse things than that. I added: 'You are s****ing yourself because of [then Inter manager Jose] Mourinho [whose side beat Barca in the Champions League]. You can go to hell!' I was completely mad."

''I threw a box full of training gear across the room, it crashed to the floor and Pep said nothing, just put stuff back in the box. I'm not violent, but if I were Guardiola I would have been frightened.''

Was annoying to see him poncing around the pitch like a god yet actually doing fuck all yet again yesterday

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

In his own head he is better than Maradona and Pele combined which we all know = Cleverley when really he is a good player but not good enough for Barcelona

 

[dref619]

he's spot on in a way though. they paid all this fucking money for him, and then didn't attempt to use him. as great as messi is, the last two front men barca have brought in for massive money have ended up being at loggerheads with him

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

he's spot on in a way though. they paid all this fucking money for him, and then didn't attempt to use him. as great as messi is, the last two front men barca have brought in for massive money have ended up being at loggerheads with him

Thats because the coach doesn't buy the players in the Barcelona set up, never has and never will. The fact is Guardiola didn't even want a striker and still doesn't as his team doesn't player with a solid frontman hence why Villa has turned into some strange left winger/striker hybrid since he went to Barcelona

 

[BobBow99]

He is a nasty piece of work. Look what he did to that team mate in training at AC Milan. There was no room for an ego like that at the Camp Nou, especially when he had been exposed as a mediocre talent when surrounded by Messi, Xavi and company. http://socqer.com/questions/1704/di...-a-milan-team-mate-in-the-head-for-no-reason/

 

[twinkletoes]

Can we swap him for Tevez.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

Can we swap him for Tevez.

One shitcunt for another

 

[standytogilvy]

 

[Astuteboy]

Still won the league with Barca. And 16 in 29 wasn't a terrible return for his first season, considering how he was played and how much Pep hated him.

He does love himself though, can't argue with that.

 

[ono]

Can we swap him for Tevez.

One shitcunt for another

Give over. Quality player.