Zlatan Ibrahimovic has opened up about his tumultuous time at Barcelona under Pep Guardiola, revealing a fiery dressing room altercation and detailing how he deliberately defied the manager by driving his Ferrari to training.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic isn't one to shy away from any confrontations – something that Pep Guardiola found out almost immediately when they worked together at Barcelona .
Ibrahimovic said: "I noticed it was not about me performing any more. In my opinion, he felt offended for me saying to him, I needed more space in the way I wanted to play." "Fourth game, bench, then I started to make noise because it was not okay for me any more," admitted the ex-Barca forward. "Now I am on the bench because of a situation I created not by my own choice, because of the people above him, because for them I was a big investment.
Despite the tension, there was no direct confrontation between them during training. "He would not say nothing to me, because he would avoid me," Ibrahimovic revealed.
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