There haven't been many sticks to beat Pep Guardiola with during his hugely successful managerial career that began in the late 2000s, but one continued criticism has been his rumoured under-appreciation of African players.
Samuel Eto’o and Yaya Toure are the names often thrown into the debate when driving home this standpoint owing to how they departed Barcelona. Cameroon’s all-time top scorer was sold to Inter Milan in summer 2009, in a bizarre cash-plus-player swap involving Zlatan Ibrahimovic, after an incredible campaign in Pep’s first season ended with the Blaugrana claiming the millennium’s first European treble.