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Pep Guardiola's managerial style critcised by Bayern's Holger Badstuber

Bayern Munich defender Holger Badstuber has criticised Pep Guardiola for not showing any interest in him during his time at the Bundesliga club.

Although Badstuber spent much of the three years of Guardiola's reign sidelined by injury and despite the Catalan branding him one of the best central defenders in the world, the 27-year-old says he is only now starting to realise how he almost felt abandoned.

Under Carlo Ancelotti, Badstuber is still not playing due to injury, but he says he is at least talking to the coach.

"Our current coach likes to exchange opinions with the players, and so the conversation goes back and forth,'' he told Sky Deutschland.