Manchester United Treble winner Denis Irwin isn’t surprised seeing Jordi Cruyff running transfers at Barcelona.
The pair were teammates at United for four years.
Ahead of this week’s Europa League play-off, the Irishman was asked if he ever expected his old team-mate Cruyff to be sporting director of Barca.
“Yeah, I could, yeah,” Irwin told mautd.com. “Jordi was always talking about football. Obviously, his dad was a fantastic player for Barcelona, a fantastic player for Holland. Manager of Barcelona as well.
“When we beat them in ’91 in the Cup Winners’ Cup he was manager, so I think it was always in his blood that after football he would go on and do something.
“Obviously he has arrived via a number of countries and I suppose at his home. I can see him being very intelligent and they’ve done very well this season, Barcelona, because they’ve had a tough two or three seasons as well and they’ve signed some really good players.
“It will be a tough test for us, but yeah I could see him and if you ask most of our ex-players that have played with Jordi as well, you could see him going and being involved in football in the future.”
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