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Pep Guardiola is one of the best and most successful managers in the history of football. The Spaniard has managed Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City and has broken numerous records in all three leagues. Players worldwide are keen to play under Pep Guardiola as they believe he can bring out the best in them.
However, a few players haven't had pleasant experiences with the manager. Here are 5 such players who had an issue with Pep Guardiola:
#5 - Dante (under Pep Guardiola at Bayern Munich)
Dante had formed a formidable central defensive partnership with Jerome Boateng at Bayern Munich when Pep Guardiola arrived in 2013. The defensive partnership had just won the Champions League, and the Spaniard decided on continuing with it.
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Dante enjoyed two successful seasons under Pep Guardiola but despite performing his best, the Brazilian was sold in the 2015 summer transfer window. Following the transfer to Wolfsburg, the defender revealed he was not a fan of Pep Guardiola as he was not a 'good human being.' He said:
"He doesn't speak with you. As a player you don't know what situation you're in. There are coaches that from a tactical point of view are world class but on a human level they're not so good. That is the case with Guardiola."
#4 - Yaya Toure
The Yaya Toure vs Pep Guardiola feud began in 2008 and is yet to come to an end. The player and the manager have never seen eye-to-eye.
Barcelona signed Yaya Toure in 2007, and he hit the ground running at Camp Nou. He was a regular in the starting XI, but things slowly changed after Pep Guardiola took over.
Despite playing 50+ games under Pep Guardiola, Yaya Toure reportedly had issues behind the scenes with the manager. He was eventually sold in 2010, and he went on to accuse the manager of being a racist. He said:
"When you realise that [Guardiola] has often had problems with Africans wherever he has been, I ask myself questions. The day he fields a team with five Africans, non-naturalised, I promise that I will send him a cake!"
He later backtracked on those comments and told The Athletic:
"When something happens that is wrong and you make a mistake, or people use your name and use you to do some wrong stuff, you have to make it OK. This one was wrong. I want to apologise for what happened, I want to apologise for doing something wrong.
"We decided to communicate with some important people at the club to apologise [for Guardiola comments] and say I've been indecent to the club. Since then, it has been a very, very long while waiting for an answer, but we don't get it."
Yaya Toure is reportedly yet to hear from Pep Guardiola.
#3 - Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been the most vocal when it comes to issues with Pep Guardiola. The Swede has not held back any time he has spoken about the manager and claimed Guardiola showed favoritism in team selection.
Ibrahimovic was signed by Pep Guardiola from Inter Milan and put straight into the Barcelona starting XI. However, six months later, the striker was benched for tactical reasons and was loaned out in the subsequent summer transfer window.
He went on a rant against Pep Guardiola once and said:
"He wasn't the worst coach I'd worked under, but he was certainly the most immature because a man solves his problems."
#2 - Samuel Eto'o
Like Yaya Toure, Eto'o too was the star of the season for Barcelona just before Pep Guardiola's arrival. The striker was in the form of his life, but the manager was not interested in working with him.
However, Samuel Eto'o convinced the Spaniard to give him a chance and used the opportunity well by scoring 46 goals in all competitions in the 2008-09 season. However, that was not enough for Pep Guardiola, and Eto'o was used in the deal to bring in Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Years later, Eto'o spoke about his time under the Spaniard and said:
"I love him as a coach, but not as a person. I learned to play football with him. He interprets things better than anyone. He's the best, but of course he loses matches."
#1 - Joe Hart
Pep Guardiola made a statement at Manchester City on his arrival by removing Joe Hart from the starting XI. The manager was adamant on not using the Englishman and wanted a new goalkeeper signed at all costs.
Joe Hart, who planned on playing at Etihad for the rest of his career, was left astonished by the decision. Hart impressed on loan to Torino while his replacement Claudio Bravo was having a hard time in the Premier League.
There were calls for Pep Guardiola to bring back Joe Hart into the starting XI, but he went and bought Ederson instead. The Englishman later spoke about the manager's decision and said:
"I'm not going to second guess why he wanted to get rid of me. The only thing that came of it is that I need to leave. Why he did it or what the intentions were I don't really care because it makes no difference to me, it makes no difference to my life.
"It would be a lie to say I didn't want to spend my whole time at Man City, I would happily played for them for the rest of my career and not played abroad, but it was too good an opportunity to turn down."
Joe Hart is now at Celtic after spells at Burnley and Tottenham.
