Journalist provides insight on bad blood between Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola and Barcelona star

Joao Cancelo has had a pretty good season at Barcelona, whom he joined on loan from Manchester City last summer. The Catalan side are expected to make a permanent move for the Portuguese defender during the upcoming transfer window, and it may not be too difficult to get a deal over the line.

Cancelo has no future at Man City, at least not while Pep Guardiola remains as head coach. The pair fell out towards the back end of 2022, which prompted Cancelo to join Bayern Munich on loan for the second half of the 2022-23 season.

Lu Martin spoke in Cadena SER to reveal the reasons behind Guardiola’s bad blood with Cancelo.

“We have explained it several times. It is a problem of attitude and behaviour. If there is something that Pep cannot stand, it is bad behaviour and being overweight. Cancelo’s behaviour was not the right one, although as a footballer he has tremendous quality. The same thing happened to him at Valencia. From there he didn’t leave because he played badly, he left because even God couldn’t stand him.

“At Barca, while he plays there is no problem, but the day he stops, his character will come out. As long as he doesn’t have competition, that won’t happen, but at Man City it was different; there was a lot of quality there.”

There is a warning in there to Barcelona that the same thing could happen with Cancelo, provided that they do make a move to sign him permanently. At this stage, there looks to have been no problems, but that could change.

Tags Barcelona Joao Cancelo Manchester City Pep Guardiola

7 Comments

  1. They like everything free,loan & option to buy even when a grape is sour…, tis sweet to the hungry mouth!

  2. Broker lona like everything free,loan & option to buy that they come across or offer themselves to them club not minding if it taste awful. Sour grape tastes sweet to their mouth! Gross!!

    1. thanks 👍
      it tastes awful but we like the taste 😋. nothing like sour sweet to remind you of what you are going through.

  3. Grass is green sky is blue blah blah blah every single footballer has their ups and downs no matter who they are this is old news and nothing new,ever care to think that maybe the player or players themselves just dont like,get on with or trust the managers or the club or feel its time for a fresh start or change of scenery

  4. Regarding the free,loan & option to buy craic as far as im aware many clubs enjoy this option and at the end of the day if its available from the selling club then hell yeah use it its not a crime last time i checked

  5. Even the so called big and mighty man citys and psgs of this world enjoyed and used frequently the free,loan & option to buy players before they where bought over and owned by oil companies i think alot of very misinformed so called football knowledgeable people on here conveniently tend to forget and ignore this i dont lol

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