'It's disgusting!' - Former Manchester City midfielder Barton rages over Guardiola's treatment of Hart

Pep Guardiola has been hammered as "appalling" for his treatment of Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart by the club's previous player Joey Barton.

Britain goalkeeper Hart has been dropped from the beginning line-up for both of the previous Barcelona and Bayern Munich head coach first matches in control.

Willy Caballero has begun against Sunderland and Steaua Bucharest, while reports in England and Spain propose City are surrounding the marking of Barca goalkeeper Claudio Bravo as Guardiola eyes a shot plug having better abilities with his feet.

Barton – now of Rangers – feels there is no reasonable clarification for how Guardiola has treated Hart, who has put in 10 years with City however is presently edging nearer to the way out entryway.

"It is nauseating," Barton, who withdrew City in 2007, told talkSPORT. "It is not the club I exited. The club I cleared out and observe now are two very surprising associations.

"The club I played for wouldn't have treated a player that had been a worker for whatever length of time that Joe has in the way that it has.

"It is basic human goodness, paying little mind to how great a mentor you are. Why treat him like that?

"He is a full global, someone who, likely before City took the cash, could have gone ahead to greater and better things himself however stayed and needed to be at City.

"I don't see what he has done wrong to be dealt with the way he has. His disposition isn't horrible. I don't this way.


"I've viewed Caballero and would you say you are letting me know Caballero is preferred with his feet over Joe Hart? I haven't seen it.

"Why not give him a chance to battle for his place and afterward in the event that he is sufficiently bad say: 'I have given him an open door'. That is the thing that each director ought to do, give everybody an open door."

Hart, 29, has been connected with credit moves to Everton and Sevilla.