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Nasri admits never seeing eye-to-eye with Man City boss Guardiola

Samir Nasri admits he clashed with Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola in the first days of the Catalan's arrival.

Nasri says he never saw eye-to-eye with Guardiola while they worked together.

He recalled to L'Equipe: "I quarreled with him from our first meetings. The first day he called me in his office and asked me: 'What do you want to do?' I told him: 'It's up to you to tell me if you want to count on me'. And he replied: 'I'm counting on you if your mind is really good'.

"Then I do my first session, everything is fine, he is happy with me , the next day Pep calls me again and there he yells at me because of my weight. He knew it because we weighed ourselves every day and I told him: 'Lower your voice, don't yell at me, I'm not a kid, I'm 29 years old. Maybe my vacation was an escape for me, a way to do what I wanted to do because I was coming out of a difficult season, and because so many things have happened in my personal life'."

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