Napoli boss Luciano Spalletti has addressed his thoughts on Pep Guardiola after the Manchester City boss said he was fearful of making the Italian “grumpy”.
Guardiola hailed Napoli as “the best team in Europe” following their 5-0 aggregate win over Frankfurt in the last-16 of the Champions League.
Spalletti in response accused the Catalan coach of mind games, saying: “Are we putting Napoli in front of Manchester City? If they can spend €900m compared to our €9m, there must be a reason.
It’s a game to build us up so they can knock us down." READ MORE: 'Emotionally I'm destroyed' - Guardiola post-Bayern win Guardiola was again asked to comment on Napoli ahead of City’s quarter-final with Bayern. "I don’t want to talk about Napoli because the manager will be grumpy with me.