Poch: Pep jibe is sad

FROM BACK PAGE Spurs are a one-man team enraged Pochettino.

“It’s a sad comment as the players laugh about that,” said the Tottenham boss. “You’re a manager, you must be above this type of comment.

“I respect his opinion but it’s sad, a sad comment. It doesn’t affect me but in reality it was very disrespectful for many people and difficult

to understand because he was part of big success in Barcelona when it was Messi at his best and I never said it was the Messi team.” Guardiola, who made the remark after City’s win at Chelsea last month, last night tried to defuse the spat. “I was never disrespectful to my colleague,” he said. “Never. When I talked about Harry Kane’s team, it was because Harry Kane was scoring a lot of goals.”