Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of few players to have played under both Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho during his career.
Part of Mourinho’s Serie A-winning Inter Milan side in 2009, the Swede moved to Barcelona that summer to play under Guardiola.
As we’ve all come to learn in the time since , Ibrahimovic didn’t always see eye-to-eye with the now Manchester City boss during his season at Camp Nou, even describing him as a “spineless coward” when recounting how he’d confronted Guardiola following the Champions League semi-final defeat to Mourinho’s Inter side.
Having rejoined forces with Mourinho at Manchester United in the summer, Ibrahimovic recently sat down with Thierry Henry for an interview with Sky Sports. Inevitably, Henry – who was also part of Barcelona’s team during the 2009-2010 season – asks Ibrahimovic to choose between his current manager and Guardiola.
“Two great coaches,” Zlatan tells Henry (and Paul Pogba, who has gatecrashed the interview) “Two different persons and I had the possibility to work with both of them.
“I won with both but one stimulates me more than the other one.”
Although he doesn’t name names, it doesn’t exactly take a genius to work out who the 35-year-old is referring to.
“You know what I’m talking about,” Ibrahimovic adds, pointing at his former Barca teammate before pretending to pull an imaginary zip across his mouth…
Unsurprisingly, Henry swiftly moves the interview on…
https://youtu.be/L8wyuzuRUZg
