Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton is happy seeing tiki-taka going out of style.
Like many, Charlton found the style of play boring.
"All that square passing is not for me," he told the Mail on Sunday. "It dismays me to see a team kick-off with the centre forward nudging the ball to his inside right, who passes it back into midfield, from where it goes to a defender who passes back to the goalkeeper... from where they start all over again.
"We were never content just to keep the ball. When the defenders won it they got it to us quickly and we either hit positive forward passes or, better still, ran with it past opponents. Playing styles come and go in cycles but some things never change and one of them is that defenders hate players running at them with the ball.
"That tiki-taka has been found out now and even Pep Guardiola is moving away from the Barcelona way at Bayern Munich. It is going out of fashion, thank goodness."
