The Ivory Coast midfielder was edged out of the Barcelona first team when Pep took over the Catalonian giants in 2008, preferring Spanish midfielder Sergio Busquets instead, and now Seluk is claiming that Pep told Yaya that he was leaving Barca for a “sh*t team” like Manchester City when the midfielder was seeking a move away from the Nou Camp in 2010. “The players he will be bringing in will be world class global players – that is the strength of the Manchester City squad”, he added. So hard. I know him and I know he’s a good guy. “Until he speaks, Yaya is not going to play”. If not, then he hoped that “Pep has got the balls to say that he was wrong to humiliate a great player like Yaya”. I can not imagine in my period when I was a football player, my manager going to the media and speaking against Johan Cruyff, about this and about that. If he has a problem call the club, and they can talk.
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He replied: “If Pep Guardiola wants a war then he can have one”. Unfortunately for Pep, we live in a world where you have the right to free speech.
“I think I will fight for a place as a winger in the team”, he said. “But I’m not surprised”. But what does he expect me to say when he does this to Yaya?
Guardiola was quoted by Sky Sports as saying: “It was so hard for me to put him out of the Champions League, so hard”.
Jesus attracted interest from Europe’s top clubs, including Barcelona, who were keen to team him up with compatriot Neymar.
Pep Guardiola had strong words for Dimitri Seluk. They are the big personalities in the dressing room at City, but Guardiola does not like that.
Guardiola is famous for demanding a lot from his players, so the Catalan will be glad to hear his new recruit does not mind doing the hard yards, and he can also rely on another important figure in Jesus’ life to come down hard on him if he is not working for the team.
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Already he’s represented the Brazil senior side on two occasions, bagging a couple of goals in the process, and there’s an excitement about what he can achieve working alongside someone like Guardiola day-to-day.
