Koeman: "Messi is Barcelona, ​​I want him to stay"

"I still have a lot of contact with Pep (Guardiola ed) and he tells me that it's great to work with Messi. Leo is a winner, and if he doesn't succeed he can feel very annoyed. I have to make sure that he feels important, and he has to finish his career here, because he is Barcelona and Barcelona is Messi. "
    From the Dutch state broadcaster NOS, the new Barça manager Ronald Koeman takes stock of the situation after yesterday's meeting with La Pulce, who told him he felt "more outside than inside" from the Barcelona project. Koeman instead reiterated that he wants it and that it will be the central point of the restart of the blaugrana team. Koeman would have made it clear, but he did not tell the media in his country, that he also wants the confirmation of Pique, another willing to leave.
    Another essential element for him is Frenkie de Jong, with whom he worked in the national team, but he sees him as a central director and not as a midfielder. "This is my idea - explained 'Rambo' Koeman -. If you invest in a young person and you spend a lot of money to get him, then you have to put him in the position where he can perform best". Koeman wants to give an increasingly 'Dutch' imprint to his Barcelona, ​​as per the Blaugrana philosophy of the times of Cruijff and then of Van Gaal, and for this reason he convinced Alfred Schreuder to follow him in Catalonia, who this season coached the 'Hoffenheim in Germany but who will now return to make the' second ', in this case of Koeman, as he did at Ajax with Ten Hag and the two built the team that put on a show and reached the semifinals in the Champions 2018-19. Much of the tactical work will be done by him. And speaking of Ajax, the Amsterdam-based company bounced back by offering 15 million for Luis Suarez, who is on the starter list and would like to return to the Netherlands.
    Koeman's other new assistant will be a darling of the culé supporters, that Henrik Larsson who was a player of Barça. The Swede, who shares the agent (Rob Jansen) with Koeman, therefore returns to the Camp Nou 14 years after his farewell as a footballer.