'Barca need a good leader' – Pjanic's quarrel with Koeman continues

The former

midfielder struggled for game time under

Ronald Koeman

in a disappointing first season and therefore he was sent out on loan to

this season.

Despite his fight with the Dutch coach,

Pjanic

still backed the Blaugrana to rediscover their form.

“[Barcelona] are going through difficult times,"

Pjanic told 

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"The results are not going as the fans want, which puts pressure on the players.

"Maybe a good leader is needed to get the team back on its feet. Barcelona will return to the past, but it will take some time.

“Barca are always one of the four or five biggest clubs in the world and they will go back to the old days."

Pjanic has been pretty vocal about the way he feels he was treated by Koeman after his move to the Turkish side.

"The coach [disrespected me], yes,"

he told 

.

"I couldn't get used to the situation I faced last year. I knew I didn't want it. I'm a player. I love playing football, this is what makes me happy.

"I always wanted to play for Barca but I didn't expect the situation to get so complicated. 

"There was a point that I was playing less, things were getting complicated. And when I played it was difficult physically and mentally to be well, because it was killing my confidence, because I had no communication with [Koeman].

"It was very strange, because a coach is the one who says who plays and who doesn't, but there are different ways to do things. I am a player who can accept everything but I would always like to be told things face to face. Not as if nothing happened and I was 15 years old."

Koeman then responded through the media by saying that he had better players than the Bosnian midfielder during the 2020-21 season.

"In terms of how we play, our ideas with and without the ball, he's fallen short of other midfielders,"

the manager told 

.

"That's it. I wish him all the best. It's been complicated, but we tried and we saw that there are other players who are better than him."

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