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Cruyff’s tribute to Guardiola
- Updated: October 4, 2016
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola was nearly sold when he was a young player at Barcelona – until Johan Cruyff intervened.
Cruyff was the Barca boss when Guardiola broke into the first team at the Nou Camp, and in his posthumously-released autobiography, the Dutch legend – who died of lung cancer earlier this year – praised the midfielder.
“As a player at Barcelona, they wanted to get rid of Pep because they thought he was a lanky great beanpole who couldn’t defend, who had no strength and couldn’t do anything in the air,” he wrote.
“So he was blamed for all the things he wasn’t good at, while I thought they were all things he could learn to do …
