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Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta has joined teammate Xavi Hernandez in criticising Jose Mourinho’s time in charge as Real Madrid manager. |
Mourinho’s three-year spell in Spain came to an end last week and after Xavi said on Saturday his style of play had not left a lasting legacy at Los Blancos, Iniesta claimed he did more damage to Spanish football than good during his time at Madrid.
“I refer to the facts,” Iniesta told Spanish newspaper El Pais yesterday.
“Yes, he has done damage to Spanish football, in general more bad things than good, but it doesn’t appeal to me at all to talk about this character.”
Iniesta also touched upon the current situation at Barca and the Spanish national team and fiercely denied that after a period of phenomenal success over the past five years both could be approaching the end of an era.
Despite reclaiming the La Liga title from Madrid with a club record 100 points, Barca’s season was blemished by a 7-0 aggregate hammering at the hands of Bayern Munich in the Champions League, but the 29-year-old believes it is grossly unfair to write off the Catalans due to just one bad tie.
“I know that there are many people wishing that our era will end, but we are still going. An era is many years achieving things and this era is lasting a long time.
“We will try to extend it because we know that when it ends it won’t feel good and it will be difficult to start over.
“You can’t throw what we have achieved into the bin due to one tie when we didn’t arrive in the best conditions.”