The reason why Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Pep Guardiola fell out is because Lionel Messi "went crying" to the coach, explains the Swede's agent.
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Ibrahimovic and Guardiola didn't see eye-to-eye during the 33-year-old's stint at Camp Nou, and Mino Raiola has now revealed why the duo fell out.
"I don't know, but I remember Txiki Begiristain (Barcelona's director of football at the time) called me in November and told me he wanted to talk with me," he told Marca.
"'Look. Messi is upset, he's not happy. He's not scoring many goals and Zlatan has to help him'. Ibra said it was fine and agreed.
"One month later Txiki told me Guardiola was going to change the system in spite of him not agreeing. 'No problem' I told him.
"Txiki then tells me there's a problem. 'Messi was upset and went crying to Guardiola and he's going to play through the middle and Guardiola's not going to play two strikers'.
"Pep didn't speak to Zlatan again, not even when he was injured."
During the first 14 league games of the 2009/10 season, Ibrahimovic outscored Messi with 11 goals to nine.
However, the Swede ended the campaign on just 21 goals in all competitions, while Messi finished the season with 47 goals.
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