The former Barcelona coach has revealed his true thoughts on the famous tiki-taka.

It's the playing style that has been Barcelona's bread-and-butter for quite the past few seasons, and even the Spanish NT has utilized it as well.

Tiki-taka, which started off with Dutch legend Johan Cruyff but gained world-wide renown under Pep Guardiola, was highly instrumental to the Blaugrana's dominance of La Liga as well as in the Champions League and was on full display as La Furia Roja won the World Cup in 2010 and two EUROs in 2008 and 2012.

However, as other teams have now caught on how to defend against it, both Barcelona and Spain have been on the receiving end of some massively humiliating defeats. And Bayern Munich, which used a more blitzkrieg style of play under Jupp Heynckes before Guardiola's arrival were subject to a 5-0 drubbing by Real Madrid last season.

To that end, it is interesting that Guardiola himself recently revealed his true feelings about the possession-based style that has been attributed to his reign at Camp Nou.

"I loathe all that passing for the sake of it, all that tiki-taka," he is quoted as saying to die Roten following a poor performance in the Bundesliga.

"It's so much rubbish and has no purpose. You have to pass the ball with a clear intention, with the aim of making it into the opposition's goal. It's not about passing for the sake of it."

He helped to make it part of Barcelona's DNA, but Guardiola apparently "loathed" the pass-pass-pass style attributed with the Catalan giants

"I hate tiki-taka. Tiki-taka means passing the ball for the sake of it, with no clear intention. And it's pointless.

"[Besides] Barca didn't do tiki-taka. It's completely made up. In all team sports, the secret is to overload one side of the pitch so that the opponent must tilt its own defence to cope. You overload on one side and draw them in so that they leave the other side weak.

"That's why you have to pass the ball, but only if you're doing it with a clear intention...[so] that's what our game needs to be [about]. Nothing to do with tiki-taka."