He Barça achieved football excellence a few years ago, during the stage of Pep Guardiola as a coach, but there are those who believe that the coach's work, now at Manchester City, is overrated and that the successes of that team were thanks to Leo
Messi.
So it was pronounced Felix
Magath, former coach and currently sports director of the Austrian Admira Wacker, who gave an interview to ‘Sport Bild’ in which he ignored Guardiola and praised Messi.
“It was Messi who won the titles, not Guardiola. Without Messi, this system would never have worked so successfully for Guardiola. Otherwise, they would have won the Champions League with Bayern or Manchester City a long time ago. He won only thanks to Lionel Messi who could change a game out of nowhere, “he said. Magath, which also analyzed that the game of the teams of Guardiola It's boring”.
“That only works if you have players technically superior to their rivals. For the spectator, having the ball and spinning it is simply boring. A high-level team doesn't need that ”, he added. Magath, three-time Bundesliga champion as coach.