Eto'o said that Guardiola didn't respect the things in football: 'I didn't want to speak to Guardiola until he had apologised. I spoke to him two times. Pep wanted to give me lessons on how to be a striker, but he was a midfielder. Pep told me how to move like a striker. I told him: ''You're not normal!'''
The Cameroon striker was sold to Inter Milan after Guardiola's first season in charge, as part of the deal which brought Ibrahimovic to Barca. Speaking about a different potential transfer, prior to the Inter deal, Eto'o said:
I talked to him and had a very good offer to go and play for six months in Uzbekistan where they would have given me 26 million dollars. In his office, he said to me: ''That could do you good, go for it.'' I told him that Eto'o was the one who made him win and that he would come and ask for forgiveness. And I stayed. He never had the courage to say things to my face.
Eto'o also said 'I first of all reminded Guardiola that he'd never been a great player. He was a good player, that's true. I told him. As a coach, he had proven nothing. He came in and didn't even know the story of the dressing room.'
It's funny the similarity between the comments of Eto'o and Ibrahimovic with regard to Guardiola; a manager described by Zlatan as 'A fantastic coach. But as a human? He is a coward. He is no man.'
On top of that, Ibrahimovic has also said that he would have died for Jose Mourinho, 'Mourinho can handle personalities, he is able to form a team out of 11 characters. But Guardiola isn't.'
So Eto'o, Ibrahimovic and Mourinho ... like three peas in pod.
hat-tip: ESPN.com
