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Ex-Barcelona chief Ingla: Mourinho wanted job- and Guardiola as his No2!

Former Barcelona vice-president Marc Ingla admits Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho was keen to return to the Nou Camp - and make Pep Guardiola his No2!.

Barca held talks with Mourinho when he had left Chelsea.

"We had a meeting in Lisbon with him and his representative," Ingla told AS.

"Mourinho showed us a PowerPoint summarising his football philosophy: how to evolve our classic 4-3-3, the incomings and outgoings he had in mind, and even people who could work on his technical staff.

"He proposed the names of Guardiola, Luis Enrique, Sergi Barjuan and Albert Ferrer to be his number two."

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