Barcelona in crisis? Coach Ernesto Valverde faces an uncertain future

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(CNN) - Barcelona is the champion of the Spanish league, the current leader of the League and remains firm in the Champions League, but is the football club in crisis?

For most clubs, win the league title in the last two seasons, advance in the knockout rounds of this season's Champions League as a group winner and have Lionel Messi, one of the best players of the season, as captain. Soccer would be a reason to be very lively.

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Ernesto Valverde, coach of FC Barcelona.

But Barcelona is different, sees success through a different prism, so the future of coach Ernesto Valverde is uncertain, according to numerous reports.

For the Catalans, one of the most successful clubs in European football, it's not just about winning, but how those victories are achieved.

And success means little if, for example, the team wastes a 3-0 lead and abandons the main competition of the European Cup in a glorious way.

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Although Barcelona won the League last season by 11 points, losing only three times throughout the tournament, since the Catalans wasted a 3-0 lead in last year's Champions League semifinals to lose 4-3 to Liverpool, Valverde's position as technical director has been in the balance.

That Valverde, who signed a contract extension last February until the end of this season, has clung to his work after the defeat of the Champions League and the subsequent defeat in the Copa del Rey final against Valencia is perhaps a bigger surprise than Monday's reports about the impending farewell of the Spanish.

The recent defeat against Atlético de Madrid, in the Supercopa of Spain in Saudi Arabia, added to the disgraceful game of Barça away from home in the league, seems to have forced the club's leadership to seek an immediate successor.

The great Barça player, Xavi Hernández, who recently began his career as a coach at Al-Sadd in Qatar, rejected an approach to succeed Valverde this month. According to the English newspaper The Guardian, Xavi Hernández's rejection has left the club in an "administrative limbo."

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The Spanish newspaper Marca says that Hernández would consider taking over in the summer, but how is the club managed in the meantime?

Another former Barcelona player, Dutchman Ronald Koeman, appears in the deck, but it would be a surprise if the former defender replaced Valverde this season. The English tabloid The Daily Mail says that Tottenham's ex-technician Mauricio Pochettino, currently without a club, could be another possible replacement.

The road becomes even more difficult for Valverde, which starts the week confronted by the headlines, knowing the news that striker Luis Suarez would be out of play for about four months after undergoing knee surgery.

Valverde supervised the training on Monday, so the man who has led Barcelona to two league titles is still in charge at the moment, although it seems he was out of borrowed time.

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