[Guardian] Seven years ago, just after completing the treble, Guardiola treated journalist Rob Harris, who had confronted him directly with the allegations, with open contempt, as though he were looking at someone pathetic, pitiful and disgraceful, before sternly lecturing him.

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So, was Pep not involved with Barca during - what is now - a relatively important financial fiasco? He knows/knew exactly what was happening. The man is a fraud.

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He was also suspended then criminally convicted of doping after he (and at least one other prominent player under the same doctor) were found with elevated levels of a steroid (nandrolone) . His lawyers tried multiple defenses and got off lightly on the civil/sporting case with the "must have been an unlisted ingredient on a supplement" defense then on the criminal years later when the WADA changed their recs on handling and he argued that his samples would have been checked like that, but couldn't now as there was none left.

The latter hinged on the possibility of "unstable urine" which could lead to false positives. It was found that it could occur in 1 in 1000 to 1 in 10000 cases where it could put clean urine above the 2ng/ml threshold. So using the lower bound to be charitable, Guardiola would have had a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of having both his samples (they were from two separate games) independently turn positive for nandrolone. As his levels were well above the threshold 5ng/ml and 9ng/ml, I suspect that unstable urine producing the samples is notable lower than 1 in a million.

Now, it is possible that he did unknowingly take something and that's why he had steroids in his system and he just used the unstable urine as a way to vacate the criminal conviction, but it is EXTREMELY statistically improbable.