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He is the type of guy if he caught his wife cheating on him, he would say to the man: "I like your personality cus u have ball to f**k Zlatana's wife"
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IBRAHIMOVIC: ‘I KEPT MY PROMISE TO MILAN’
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Nothing new here, but interesting read.
Why is Jose Mourinho seemingly able to handle Zlatan Ibrahimovic at Inter Milan and Manchester United but Pep Guardiola couldn’t handle him at Barcelona?
Zlatan Ibrahimovic: “Pep Guardiola is the most immature manager I've worked with, If Mourinho lights up a room, Guardiola draws the curtains”
A lot goes behind the scenes, in the dressing room, politics, much more, it’s not all sweet if you do what the manager says, there’s a lot more. There are personalities of people, two kinds of people, one are blatant, want brutal honesty, speak up and like the manager to do the same, and the other, they bow down and move forward apprehensively with unexplained conundrum.
Pep Guardiola’s football philosophy incorporates majority players acting as his chess pieces doing everything according to him in full detail, not only on football pitch but he likes to control you in other situations too demanding to do this and do that, which deprives players of personal football freedom which is contrary to how his football style is reportedly “freedom”, Nah.
That’s why young players and subdued experienced players seem to fit into that model more, because most sophisticated players do not like to play like they’ve a double barrel on their head which develops high probability of ego clash.
Theirry Henry scored a goal for Barcelona, next minute he was subbed off. He was dumbfounded and puzzled, Why? Because he didn’t do what Pep told him to do.
Jose Mourinho on the contrary treats his players like his friends and family if you buy into his plans. Romelu Lukaku has been rewarded with 90 minutes every game even though he went through a goal drought: that is because they’re very clear as water with each other. Paul Pogba didn’t buy into Jose’s plans and he was made clear what he has to do.
Zlatan on Pep Guardiola : (After loss to UCL Semi to Jose’s Inter)
Guardiola looked at me as if it was all my fault and I thought: ‘That’s it. I’ve played my last card.’ After that match, it felt like I was no longer welcome at the club. I felt like **** when I sat in the locker room, and Guardiola glared at me as if I was a disturbance, an alien. It was mental.
He was a brick wall. I didn’t see any signs of life from him, and every hour with the club I wished I could be out of there. I didn’t belong any more, and when we had an away match with Villarreal, he let me play for five minutes. I was seething inside, not because I was on the bench. I can deal with that, if the manager is man enough to say: ‘You’re not good enough, Zlatan. You haven’t made the grade. There were other things. ‘Listen,’ Guardiola said.
I yelled, ‘You haven’t got any balls!’ and worse than that I added, ‘You’re ******** yourself in front of Mourinho. You can go to hell!
I completely lost it, and you might have expected Guardiola to say a few words in response, but he’s a spineless coward. He just picked up the metal box, like a little caretaker, and then left, never to mention it again, not a word.
‘We don’t turn up to training sessions in Ferraris or Porsches.’ I nodded, didn’t go off on one and say things like: ‘What the hell business is it of yours what cars I drive?’ At the same time, though, I was thinking: ‘What kind of message is he sending here?’
Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, the whole gang — they were like his schoolboys. The best footballers in the world stood there with their heads bowed, and I didn’t understand any of it. It was ridiculous.
Zlatan on Jose Mourinho:
That guy says whatever he wants. I like him. He’s the leader of his army. But he cares, too. He would text me all the time at Inter, wondering how I was doing. He’s the exact opposite of Pep Guardiola. If Mourinho lights up a room, Guardiola draws the curtains. I guessed that Guardiola was trying to match up to him. Mourinho would become a guy I was basically willing to die for.
Mourinho created personal ties with the players with his text messages and his knowledge of our situations with wives and children, and he didn’t shout.
Sure, I understood he was sending those texts for a reason. He wanted my loyalty, but I liked him straight away. He works twice as hard as all the rest. Lives and breathes football 24/7. I’ve never met a manager with that kind of knowledge about the opposing sides. It was everything, right down to the third-choice goalkeeper’s shoe size.
Managers see football in their own way, which is very different, Mourinho wants you to become his friend, Pep wants you to be his submissive.
Why is Jose Mourinho seemingly able to handle Zlatan Ibrahimovic at Inter Milan and Manchester United but Pep Guardiola couldn’t handle him at Barcelona?
Zlatan Ibrahimovic: “Pep Guardiola is the most immature manager I've worked with, If Mourinho lights up a room, Guardiola draws the curtains”
A lot goes behind the scenes, in the dressing room, politics, much more, it’s not all sweet if you do what the manager says, there’s a lot more. There are personalities of people, two kinds of people, one are blatant, want brutal honesty, speak up and like the manager to do the same, and the other, they bow down and move forward apprehensively with unexplained conundrum.
Pep Guardiola’s football philosophy incorporates majority players acting as his chess pieces doing everything according to him in full detail, not only on football pitch but he likes to control you in other situations too demanding to do this and do that, which deprives players of personal football freedom which is contrary to how his football style is reportedly “freedom”, Nah.
That’s why young players and subdued experienced players seem to fit into that model more, because most sophisticated players do not like to play like they’ve a double barrel on their head which develops high probability of ego clash.
Theirry Henry scored a goal for Barcelona, next minute he was subbed off. He was dumbfounded and puzzled, Why? Because he didn’t do what Pep told him to do.
Jose Mourinho on the contrary treats his players like his friends and family if you buy into his plans. Romelu Lukaku has been rewarded with 90 minutes every game even though he went through a goal drought: that is because they’re very clear as water with each other. Paul Pogba didn’t buy into Jose’s plans and he was made clear what he has to do.
Zlatan on Pep Guardiola : (After loss to UCL Semi to Jose’s Inter)
Guardiola looked at me as if it was all my fault and I thought: ‘That’s it. I’ve played my last card.’ After that match, it felt like I was no longer welcome at the club. I felt like **** when I sat in the locker room, and Guardiola glared at me as if I was a disturbance, an alien. It was mental.
He was a brick wall. I didn’t see any signs of life from him, and every hour with the club I wished I could be out of there. I didn’t belong any more, and when we had an away match with Villarreal, he let me play for five minutes. I was seething inside, not because I was on the bench. I can deal with that, if the manager is man enough to say: ‘You’re not good enough, Zlatan. You haven’t made the grade. There were other things. ‘Listen,’ Guardiola said.
I yelled, ‘You haven’t got any balls!’ and worse than that I added, ‘You’re ******** yourself in front of Mourinho. You can go to hell!
I completely lost it, and you might have expected Guardiola to say a few words in response, but he’s a spineless coward. He just picked up the metal box, like a little caretaker, and then left, never to mention it again, not a word.
‘We don’t turn up to training sessions in Ferraris or Porsches.’ I nodded, didn’t go off on one and say things like: ‘What the hell business is it of yours what cars I drive?’ At the same time, though, I was thinking: ‘What kind of message is he sending here?’
Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, the whole gang — they were like his schoolboys. The best footballers in the world stood there with their heads bowed, and I didn’t understand any of it. It was ridiculous.
Zlatan on Jose Mourinho:
That guy says whatever he wants. I like him. He’s the leader of his army. But he cares, too. He would text me all the time at Inter, wondering how I was doing. He’s the exact opposite of Pep Guardiola. If Mourinho lights up a room, Guardiola draws the curtains. I guessed that Guardiola was trying to match up to him. Mourinho would become a guy I was basically willing to die for.
Mourinho created personal ties with the players with his text messages and his knowledge of our situations with wives and children, and he didn’t shout.
Sure, I understood he was sending those texts for a reason. He wanted my loyalty, but I liked him straight away. He works twice as hard as all the rest. Lives and breathes football 24/7. I’ve never met a manager with that kind of knowledge about the opposing sides. It was everything, right down to the third-choice goalkeeper’s shoe size.
Managers see football in their own way, which is very different, Mourinho wants you to become his friend, Pep wants you to be his submissive.