Tuesday, June 1, 2021 at 9:19 AM• Chris Meijer • Last update: 09:28

Kenneth Perez would not be surprised if Josep Guardiola chooses to work at Ajax one day. The Danish analyst sometimes ran into the current manager of Manchester City at a golf tournament and noticed that the Spaniard ‘can hardly disguise his fascination for Ajax’. Hans Kraay junior, on the other hand, thinks that Guardiola could return to Barcelona in the short term.

Perez mentions Guardiola in the program Football talk from ESPN a ‘very fascinating and successful trainer’. “Guardiola is completely crazy about Ajax. He has a golf tournament now and then and then I get to participate. He cannot disguise his fascination for Ajax. I wouldn’t be surprised if one day he says, “Well, there is a vacancy.” He still has to come. I wouldn’t be surprised if Guardiola did that one day. ”

“I wouldn’t be surprised if he did Barcelona again. And that he will say ‘yes’ if they cast a fish now. I am very curious what will happen if Laporta calls him. Whether he would immediately say ‘no’. I think he would be open to it ”, Kraay responds. Guardiola lost the Champions League final with Manchester City against Chelsea last Saturday. “He’s not going to win it in the coming years, you know. There are twelve teams that can invest what they invest there. Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea. You cannot say: ‘Next year again’. ”

There was criticism of Guardiola’s tactics after the final of the billion dollar ball. “I understand the idea that you put agile people against those three static defenders of Chelsea,” says Perez. “Only I understood that it was the first time that these eleven played football together. Guardiola stands for football, that round thing is central. So he wants to have as many good football players as possible on the field. The big star was Kanté, so then you get the question: where was that at City? Where was their breaker? ”

Still, Perez says he is also getting tired of Manchester City football from time to time. “With that football in width all the time. Really awful. Against Borussia Dortmund (in the quarter finals of the Champions League, ed.) I really enjoyed them, then they played forward. I understand that space is limited, but this made me completely faint. ”