{"id":4142,"date":"2025-06-22T02:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T02:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/4142\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T02:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T02:56:12","slug":"pep-guardiola-gave-lionel-messi-transfer-warning-about-sean-dyche-that-had-steve-bruce-crying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/4142\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola gave Lionel Messi transfer warning about Sean Dyche that had Steve Bruce ‘crying’"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Pep Guardiola discussed a Premier League switch with Lionel Messi, he warned him about what was to come.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There would be intense scrutiny from the press.<\/p>\n

Pep Guardiola gave Lionel Messi Sean Dyche warning that had Steve Bruce ‘crying’<\/p>\n

Rain would fall by the bucketload.<\/p>\n

But most worrisome of all was the existence of Sean Dyche’s<\/a> Burnley.<\/p>\n

In ‘The Pep Revolution’, published last year, it is revealed how Messi <\/a>reached out to Guardiola <\/a>in August 2020 about a potential transfer to Manchester City.<\/a><\/p>\n

The pair, who enjoyed four trophy-laden years together at Barcelona, enjoyed a six-hour conversation as Guardiola got to the bottom of why Messi was keen to reunite.<\/p>\n

Guardiola even told Messi things may not be the same given he had not managed the World Cup winner in eight years, but the Argentinian superstar supposedly remained adamant.<\/p>\n

Sadly the move never eventuated, as Messi remained at Barcelona until the summer of 2021 when he joined Paris Saint-Germain as a free agent.<\/a><\/p>\n

But rumours had evidently done the rounds regarding Messi and City, so Dyche sought to get to the bottom of the matter at a Premier League meeting, where all managers would be present.<\/p>\n

As Dyche recalled, the meeting was held just after Covid had died down, meaning the managers were allowed to mix with one another.<\/p>\n

The former Clarets boss was getting a cup of tea alongside Steve Bruce, who was in charge of Newcastle at the time, when Guardiola came up alongside them.<\/p>\n

It led to an all-time interaction that left Bruce ‘crying’ with laughter.<\/p>\n

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Messi and Guardiola led Barca through their greatest periodCredit: Getty\"Together,<\/a><\/p>\n

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Together, the pair won an impressive 14 trophies at the Spanish giantsCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

“I said, ‘What was that thing about Lionel Messi,'” Dyche said on talkSPORT.<\/p>\n

“He (Guardiola) goes, ‘Sean, Steve, I tell you this. Lionel, he said no way can he come to Manchester City. Because I tell Lionel it rains. It rains and rains. And when it stops raining, it rains again.’<\/p>\n

“Then he goes, ‘Lionel, on a Monday night, you have to go to Burnley, Sean’s team. And they go bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.’ Brucey was crying!”<\/p>\n

Dyche wasn’t one to shy away from Guardiola’s hilarious description of his team, either.<\/p>\n

“I went, ‘That’s exactly what we’re going to do, Pep,'” Dyche said.<\/p>\n

“‘You warned him correctly.’ Me and Brucey were crying, honestly. It was genius. Pep, brilliant.”<\/p>\n

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Dyche could barely contain his laughter when recounting the storyCredit: talkSPORT<\/p>\n

Dyche was also left thoroughly amused at the thought of Messi gracing Turf Moor, a stadium which boasts a capacity of 21,944.<\/p>\n

“Imagine that, his face turning up at Turf Moor going, ‘What on earth?,'”Dyche said.<\/p>\n

“Absolutely smashing it down with rain, wind blowing across and knocking you over.”<\/p>\n

Under Dyche, Burnley weren’t renowned as a team that played an attractive style of football.<\/p>\n

Using a 4-4-2 formation, Dyche’s Burnley had a reputation for being incredibly physical and playing long balls across the park.<\/p>\n

Despite the perceived ugliness of their way of playing, the results were inarguable as Dyche kept Burnley in the Premier League for six seasons until he was sacked in 2022.<\/p>\n

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Dyche was in charge of Burnley for an impressive 425 games, winning 149 of thoseCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

He even led the Clarets to an unlikely seventh-placed finish in the 2017\/18 season, which secured the club a spot in the qualifying stage of the Europa League.<\/p>\n

After Dyche departed Burnley, he went on to manage Everton, but was axed after nearly two years in the job last January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Pep Guardiola discussed a Premier League switch with Lionel Messi, he warned him about what was to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[4341,5509,5510,5506,5507,5505,220,2761,5508,221,62,67,132,5511,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-4142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-burnley","9":"tag-football-news","10":"tag-latest","11":"tag-lionel-messi","12":"tag-manchester-city-transfer","13":"tag-pep-guardiola","14":"tag-premier-league","15":"tag-rumours","16":"tag-sean-dyche","17":"tag-soccer","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-updates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114724771238803306","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}