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Pep Guardiola tells Riqui Puig to be patient at Barcelona

Pep Guardiola has offered Barcelona youngster Riqui Puig some advice and has told the midfielder to be patient at the Camp Nou.

Puig was officially promoted to the first-team last season but struggled for game time and only managed two La Liga starts.

Guardiola and Puig were both at a golf tournament in Mallorca on Monday where the former Barca coach offered the youngster some words of advice.

“Iniesta did not start until he was 24 years old. People think that playing for Barça, coaching Barça or leading it is easy. Everything has its difficulties.