The 33-year-old’s attitude was criticised by Louis van Gaal in July, stating he had excluded him from their pre-season tour of the United States after refusing to play in the club’s Under-21 fixtures.
Valdes hit back at his manager on Twitter by posting a picture of the Under-21 fixtures he played in yet, speaking a month before the incident, he praised Guardiola for his approach to players and their "egos".
"I am a very difficult person to work and live with. My wife deserves the biggest of trophies," he told Colombian news station RCN in an interview which aired last week.
"I was very lucky to have so many seasons with [Guardiola].
"In addition to being a teacher to many of us, he was always able to communicate greatly with everyone and knowing how to adapt to talk to different people in the dressing room.
"That’s the most challenging thing for a coach, to adapt their own pride to be able to speak to everyone with their different egos."
Valdes, who spent four years at the Liga outfit under Guardiola, left them in acrimonious circumstances when his contract ended and a torn anterior cruciate ligament left him without a club the following season.
And he admits his exit was not as he would have hoped for.
He said: "I recriminate myself when I keep myself in the margins and let people down, especially those who expect better from me.
"The day when I left Barca, because of the treatment I was receiving and my character, it didn’t go as I would have wished. I drifted and then just left, I’m sure people expected much more from me."
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