Immigrants’ treatment big problem – Pep Guardiola responds to Jim Ratcliffe

Pep Guardiola has responded to Jim Ratcliffe’s comments about immigration by saying people need to “embrace other cultures” to make a “better society”.

Manchester United minority owner Ratcliffe this week sparked controversy by claiming the UK had been “colonised” by immigrants.

Ratcliffe has since apologised for any offence caused by his remarks, which Guardiola acknowledged, but the Manchester City manager feels the wider issue of how countries treat immigrants remains a “big problem”.

Guardiola said at a press conference: “I have a huge appreciation for Sir Jim. I was fortunate to meet him. He made a statement after to apologise.

“I’m not commenting on what Sir Jim Ratcliffe said because after that he said what exactly he wanted to say, but all around the world the problem that we have in all the countries (is that) we treat immigrants or people who come from other countries as the problem for problems that our countries have and it is a big, big, big, big, big problem.

“The fact that I am a Catalan and you are British – what influence did we have on where we were born? It was mum and dad.

“Everybody wants to have a better life and a perspective to have a better future for themselves, their families and their friends, and sometimes opportunities come in the place where you are born and the place that maybe you go.

“Before it was so difficult to travel, but today in one hour you can be everywhere. Today the colour of the skin or where you were born doesn’t make a difference. We have a lot of work to do about that.

“It doesn’t make me feel that because I am Catalan I am better than you. My education when I was born and travelled in Mexico and Qatar or lived in Italy or England or Germany, that is just the benefit of my