There appears to be one person who dislikes Pep Guardiola more than Jose Mourinho and Zlatan Ibrahimovic – Zlatan’s agent.
Mino Raiola and his client have a chequered history with the Manchester City manager. Ibrahimovic claims he was frozen out at Barcelona by Guardiola, and left the club in acrimonious circumstances in 2010 when the Catalan was coach.
Ahead of Saturday’s Manchester derby, Raiola has reminded everyone of how little regard he has for Guardiola, becoming the second figure this week, after Peter Schmeichel, to call Pep “boring.”
Yet to climb aboard the Pep bandwagon https://t.co/NFPYHQ4VKc
— SportsJOE (@SportsJOEdotie) September 8, 2016
“I don’t hate him, but I don’t like him,” Raiola said.
“Everyone knows I don’t like him. I like people who have a different character to Guardiola. I don’t hate him… because hate consumes you. But I don’t like him. He’s a good coach but his football is a bit boring to me.”
Raiola was asked if he’d ever work with the City boss again, and said that such a scenario wouldn’t occur because Pep “doesn’t have the balls to sit down with me.”
“Me, I’m a professional. I want to do the best for my clients.”
Raiola’s clients Paul Pogba, Henrik Mkhitaryan and Ibrahimovic all signed for Manchester United this summer, netting the Italian agent a reported £25m in commission fees.
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