Barcelona chief reaches out to Pep in row

Rosell moved to calm a row with its ex-coach Pep Guardiola on Tuesday, denying his charge that the club used his successor’s cancer illness to criticise him. Rosell hailed Guardiola as the club’s greatest ever coach, in a conciliatory move after Guardiola’s comments last week pointed to a deep rift between them.

Guardiola, now coaching German and European champions Bayern Munich, accused Barcelona at a news conference last week of using its current coach Tito Vilanova’s illness ‘to damage’ him, without elaborating.
‘We were very surprised by his comments. What he said about the board of directors and about Tito is completely false,’ Rosell said  ‘In the press archives you will see how the club has treated him, the best coach in the history of the club.’